Called out by the Professor

Soooo right now one of the classes in which I am enrolled is Molecular Biology with Dr. Evans. Each Friday we have a take home quiz that is due at the beginning of class. This past Friday I was comparing my quiz with my friends before submitting and noticed that I had mislabeled the y axis for the x axis and vice versa(No worries it's not cheating, in fact my teacher encourages us to work with other students). There wasn't room on the quiz to scratch it out and redo it so I pulled out a blank sheet of paper and corrected it. I asked around if anyone had a stapler, glue, paperclip or anything that I could attach my newly drawn graph to my quiz with, but found no such luck. The TA's were going around picking up the quizzes so I didn't have time to leave the class and look for a stapler. All of a sudden my Cajun improvisation skills kicked in. I remembered i had gum in my bag, so I quickly popped a piece in my mouth and chewed it enough to get it moist and sticky. I then converted my trident gum into 4 pieces of "ticky tac" and pressed them in the four corners of my graph. I know, genius huh? Here's a pic of the final product.

(If you look carefully you can see the TA's comments of "EW" and "This is gross" hahaha)

So anyways, yesterday at the beginning of class my professor totally called me out. haha. He mentioned how there was one student that made a fix to his quiz and strategically placed 4 pieces of gum to attach the correction to the quiz. He held up my quiz and showed the class and everyone in the auditorium started laughing. He gave me props on how creative it was. . . the best part though is that i got full credit! HA! Here is a video of class yesterday. If you click on the bar around the 2:40 part you can hear him talk about me.

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It's Been a While

Well, it's a new year and with new years come resolutions. My sister Jessica gave each one of us siblings a "Dream Big 2010" journal last year for Christmas, so that we might write down our goals and dreams. I happened to locate my book and noticed the first page was full of all these awesome goals I had made and realized that there was not one that I accomplished. So let's just cross out that last "0" of 2010 and tear out that first page and make it "Dream Big 2011."

I've heard that if you don't write down your goals chances are that they won't come to pass. I figured I would share some of my dreams/goals with y'all so that not only will I be accountable for them, but y'all can keep me in check also. So here goes nothing. . .
Atop my list are a few of the following:
-graduate in April (I just had my exit interview with my counselor so I'm on track!)
-get straight A's my last semester
-take the GMAT this summer
-find a job for after graduation

Another goal I have (encouraged by my sister Laura) is to write in my journal (or blog) more about my tender mercies and the way in which I've seen the hand of God in my life. Elder D. Todd Christofferson gave an amazing talk tonight at the Marriott Center (A rebroadcast can be seen here) The main theme he talked about was "Give us this day our daily bread" taken from the Lord's prayer. He compared this to the manna in which Moses' people received daily. Here are just a few quotes that I loved (hopefully it's enough of a teaser to get ya to watch it)

Manna today can be as real as the physical manna of biblical times.

Live day by day. Yes, look to the future, but it is a bunch of days that make up a full lifetime.

When we pray daily for help for the things out of our power, we must first be sure we are doing all that is within our power.

I don't want you to give in to the pressure of the moment. Look through it and get through the day. Don't look ahead to the pain, just get through the day. Take it one day at a time.

Our consistency in small simple things can lead to great things. Even the mundane daily tasks become the building blocks of a great and glorious future.

Before bed each night, think about the successes and failures of the day and thank the Lord for the manna he gave you.



I love the gospel! I know God knows us. I am so grateful for all he blesses me with. I am so lucky to have the best family ever. AND to be 2 blocks away from my 2 little sisters and 2 doors down from my best friend. K thats all for tonight folks. Hopefully I'll blog again before next year hahahaha