Sunday, February 3, 2013

BYU is still of course the best.  There were, nevertheless, many things I learned of my trips to the other campuses, namely UVU and U of U, I visited the week before last.  My week began, as always, with sunday which preceded monday.  Monday lacked school and was thus spent goofing off and being lazy at home.  
Tuesday was "The Best"( see sentence 1).  BYU was lots of fun. I got to spend much of the trip shadowing a college student.  I was with Benjamin a grad student studying acoustics.  I had the privilege of attending a high level class in which the professor explained the ways to mathematically model the waves and output made by a sphere with a pulsating cap expanding radially and axially.  Much of this information blew way over my head but it was neat to see the possibilities of high math and science.  After that he showed me the sound chambers rigged with various experiments showing off the more hands on science of acoustics rather than the theoretical aspects.  Both of which I found highly interesting.
  
I went to the devotional, and walked around campus most of the rest of the day with other people from the school.  It was fun.

Utah Valley University was interesting because I have hardly ever seen it before compared to BYU.  It was smaller and much more compact.  I recognized many similarities between them (Apple/ tech store, library, bookstore, pendulum.) that, I assume, are common in other universities.  But is had different architecture, layout, size, and seemed more layed back.

University of Utah was more impressive than UVU if not in size (which it definitly was) then in history. It has been around since Brigham Young helped founded it and has many older building on and around it. 

This week helped me not only learn about these colleges more but what I what out of my college experience and what I want to study.  My Ambition still remains to go to BYU and I hope to prepare well now for my higher education experience and options. 


4 comments:

  1. It is important that we prepare well now for the mission that the Lord has in store for each one of us. It was good to see your personality in your post :)

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  2. Going to BYU and experiencing it is a good way to prepare. I wonder if the classes at UVU and U of U would be diferent than BYU since the gospel and LDS values would not be present? That may be another difference.I am glad you enjoyed your trips.

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  3. I agree visiting different colleges is great, but BYU is still my top choice. You are so smart Scott you will definitely excel immensely and do great things! I loved your post and trust me I bet you understood the mathematics stuff in that college class way better than I would have! :)

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  4. I liked how you said that visiting the different universities helped you decide what you want to take from your college experience! It's important to decide now what we want to take from college because we can plan and prepare for those things now! Great post!!

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