Scholarship!

For those of you who don't know already, I applied for a really nice scholarship several weeks ago. Turns out, I GOT IT! It's the Kennecott Scholarship and is worth $6000! Yeah, I'm pretty stoked! This will pay for almost an entire year's worth of tuition.

Anyway, earlier this evening I attended an awards banquet for all of the scholarship recipients. There were about 20 total. They took pictures of us too with the president of the University and other VIPs.

Well, as we were sitting and eating, I noticed a lot of people socializing. I saw a group of people wearing name badges that said "Kennecott" on them, and I became curious. I have been told time and time again how important it is to Network! I thought "Gosh, this is a perfect opportunity to Network." I had never really considered a career with Kennecott, but hey, they're giving me free money. The least I could do is learn what it is they do.

So I went up to a group of Kennecott employees and introduced myself as one of the scholarship recipients. They all began to introduce themselves... Head of Publicity... General Manager.... VP over something... and the President and CEO of Kennecott! Despite being totally outmatched, I felt oddly comfortable around them. They asked me about my schooling, and when I mentioned I was an EE major, the general manager said "Oh good, we can use all the EE's we can get!" I started asking them what kind of jobs they offer for EE's, and the kind of work they do on a day to day basis. That's when the CEO piped up and said "You know, I do inspections of the plant every so often. Why don't you give me a call this summer and I'll take you with me and give you a personal tour. I can introduce you a few head engineers and they can show you what it is they do."

Well, after leaving that conversation with a plunder of business cards, I am now a convert to networking. I now understand what all of they hype is about. Still not sure if I would want to pursue a career down that path, but gosh, I like the way they treat little students like me! :D

I'm Famous!!!!

Alot has happened to me in the past few months, so I will be throwing a few more updates on to cover for it. Anyway, first item of business is how my mug was in the newspaper!



I'm the one on the left.

Here is a link to the article where you can read all about me.... and the others in the play.

Awesome

Guacamole

Last night, 3 of my little brother's best friends were "kidnapped" at an amusement park when the rides they were on continued in an endless loop, and the mechanism to turn them off was stolen. I was asked to find and catch the evil doer.

After walking around and interrogating several people, I received information as to where the perpetrator may be hiding. On my way there, I met up with a few friends I hadn't seen in a while. We proceeded to an abandoned shack, and inside were the evil doers, but the mechanism was no where to be found.

The head evil doer lady informed me that the mechanism was hidden underground and showed me a trap door leading to the underground lair where it was hidden. I asked my friends if they wanted to come with me, but they all declined, when suddenly out of nowhere, an African American female archaeologist walked in and agreed to assist me. Before entering the door, the head evil doer lady gave me a flash light and a butter knife and told me I would need them.

Upon descending the staircase, the archaeologist and I found ourselves in a room with about 20 other people. After walking around a bit, we realized the other people were all reflections of ourselves, and that the room was full of mirrors. Exploring the "lair" further, we came across a walking talking 10 foot bronze statue who, although very polite, informed us he guarded this "lair" and we would have to fight him to continue. I then proceeded to have a knife fight with the statue, who was also armed with a butter knife.

With absolutely no help from the archaeologist, I defeated the statue, who then warned us that far more dangerous creatures lurked in the "lair". One such creature was a giant and incredibly fat and dangerous chicken, also made of bronze. It's one weakness was that it was ticklish. I then proceeded to tickle the giant chicken until I once again became victorious.

I then woke up and swore never again to eat guacamole before going to bed.

Dreams are Wierd

Something really funny happened to me the other morning. Saturday night, I stayed up til about two in the morning just talking with my roommates (that is an odd occurrence for me.) When I finally went to bed, I said that I wasn't going to set my alarm, and just get up whenever I got up. They laughed because I usually get up at 7 on Sundays (which wasn't necessary for this Sunday. We only had sacrament meeting because everyone is gone over the holidays.) They said even without an alarm, I would get up at 7.

Anyway, that night I had a weird dream. In it, one of my friends in the engineering department was a mob crime boss. Apparently I did something to tick him off, and he sent all his croonies to "take care of me." Luckily, I got away in my car. Giving off a sigh of relief, I then felt a hand grab me from the back seat of my car, and that's when I woke up! After settling down, I reassured myself that there was no one hiding under my bed, and that the door was locked. Checking the clock, I saw that it was 7:00 AM exactly. I guess they were right.

It's getting harder and harder to tell these days.

I was sitting in my chemistry class the other day when I look to my right and a few seats down there is a girl with black hair in a pony tail. "Hey, she's kind of cute." I thought to myself. At the end of the class, we took a quiz. This girl finished early and got up to leave. Because I was sitting in the aisle seat, I had to move my feet and backpack so she could go by. When I did that, she smiled, and said in a deep bass voice "Thanks"...

GGGAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

/COUGH

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

BBBBBLLLLLLEEEEEECCCHHHHH!!!!!

/HEAVE

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

/SHIVER

Free Agent Status!

I auditioned for Hale Center Theater this past weekend. I was excited when I got callbacks. I went into callbacks on Monday evening and I had quite the experience there. It was amazing. For starters, I have never been around so many talented singers before in my life. HOLY COW!!! I am incredibly flattered that they would even consider me to be somewhere around that level. Just to give you an idea of the caliber of singers that were there, I sat next to Rigoletto. FREAKING RIGOLETTO!!! That's right, the "You sing like a goat" guy.

Second, I realized that I have a lot to learn about performing, and especially performing under pressure. The nice lady sitting on the other side of me was very kind and would tell me every so often "Relax :D" I was trying to hide it so well too.

In any case, this means I'm a free agent. There are a few other plays I might audition for, and we'll see if I can get into any of those. I have alot of time next semester, so I will try to get into something. If not, I guess I could always... *gasp* DO HOMEWORK!!!