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This last week was a nice change. Wednesday evening Seth, Lauren, and Dad came to Rexburg and I showed them around campas and town. You know as much as you can with a 6 month old.

The weather decided to not cooperate with us and it dropped the temperature to right around freezing. In other wards they bundled up in heavy jackets and I wore my light jacket. You know what Oregonians typically ware in the late fall.

Thursday, Rexburg decided to give them a view of what its really like. The temperature dropped, the wind picked up and it dumped close to 2 inches of snow on us. We eneded jonting from building to building to keep warm. Then Dad went and bought a sweater at the book store that was way to small for him (good thing they let him trade it out.)

After the tour we headed out to Big Judds. Mmmm 1 lbs burgers. I think I still have left overs in the fridge. Most of the grith of the burger comes from the bun. It makes it slightly intimidating.

Saying farwell to them as they headed down to Provo, I locked myself in my room and hit the books (and scrubs. I think I'm addicted to that show) I'm about 25% of the way of getting everything done before my trip to Seattle.

After classes the next day, Friday, I hopped in my car and drove down to meet up with the rest of the family. Then it was just a weekend of partying with my parents, siblings, and nieces & nephews. I wasn't able to make it to Lincolns graduation (the whole purpose of the family gathering) but I enjoyed the spoils of it.

After staying through Sunday morning I headed back up to Idaho just in time to start work at the airport. It was a long night. I'm just glad the planes were on time.

Now I'm back plugging away at my homework once more. I can't wait to get out of Idaho again. Six days and counting.

School and stuff...

Quick note before class. I'm back in classes and quite enjoying it. Though I am still stressed a little (story of my life.) I have to go to Seattle for 2 weeks in May for training and I'm trying to get all my school work for that time done before I head out. That means trying to take an exam a week early. If I can do well on that test, that will be a major achievement for me, seeing as I am not a huge reader. I will have to prepare for the test by reading everything for it. I'll keep you updated as to how I do on it.

I just purchased my own domain name for one of my classes. Its a web development class. My brother Seth is going to show me some cool things he's been working on and I'm going to see if I can't use some of it to impress my classmates. Anyway the url for my site is www.pbenmay.com, pretty neat huh. There isn't anything there yet but will be soon. Oh gotta go, my class is starting now.

Breathing a Sigh of Relief

Over the past week my stress level has both peaked and bottomed out. Not something I enjoy and something I hope to advoid in the future.

Like I said before I got through my finals and got over that stress. I ended up failing one class (did not spend the time I needed to do well in it.) Also my final in another class ended up not getting graded. In other words I also failed that class. It was my CIT 203 class, the one I wrote the algorithms for. That ticked me off pretty bad, it also didn't help that I couldn't get a hold of my professor. He decided to go on vacation for the week. I'll be sharing some kind words with him when he gets back.

So because of these two classes my academic standing had been put on the line. I was on the verge of being supended. I ended up canceling my own two day vacation to try and take care of this. I spent the week running around campus talking to the registration office and various secretaries to get a hold of my professor. Most of it to no avail. I ended up writing two letters to the school to explain my situation (they were holding a hearing to decide if I should stay in school.)

On Wednesday I figured I was doomed. I rented a couple zombie movies to get my mind off of the situation. I woke up Thursday morning to check my email, and it was the most wonderful news. They decided to accept my petition and let me continue my education. I leaped for joy and shouted the biggest Woot of my life.

So today I just purchased more books then I have ever bought in my life. I never thought I would be quite so happy to buy books. Now I can relax and work till school starts on Monday. It should be an interesting semester. I get to create my own website under my own domain.

Done, done and done

This semester is over finally. Its been kinda a rough one for me as well. I had some classes that were way harder then I though, then some classes that were supposed to be hard but were quite easy. Some of them I made the mistake of procrastinating, big mistake, so some things are still up in the air.

All 3 of my projects were great. The research project went through without a hitch and we all got A's. The advertising campaign for Audi went great in fact our group received the highest grade in the class earning some extra credit points.

Then there was my programming project. I racked my brain for days trying to figure out the problem, well 4 problems. The whole project entailed combining two lists in various ways. The first one I had to just combine the lists. The trick is both lists have some of the same names in each one. So eliminating the duplicate name it part of the problem. The second problem entailed just listing all the names that are in both the list. Those two I figured out quickly. The last two I banged my head on my desk several times. The third one entailed listing only the names in one list not including the names in both lists. I stayed up all night trying to figure this out. It wasn't until I really took a good look at my brothers help that I figured it out. After I got that one the fourth was cake. Combining both lists without listing the names in both lists.

That last paragraph probably doesn't make sense. It does to me in my somewhat odd brain.

Then there were my finals. One I got a C but that doesn't do much for my grade. The other I just took this morning, and I think I fairly well on it too. Surprising since I hated that class with a passion.

Now its all just a waiting game. I'll keep things updated as they come.

Eye bowls filled with candy!

After some thought I finally did it. I went to the eye doctor today and got me some of those tiny little eye bowls. They feel kinda weird and I'm not quite sure how I feel about them yet. But we'll see after this little trial period. I'm just hoping I don't end up late for my test tomorrow, you know the first day with them spending hours in front of the mirror just trying to get them in.

Projects, WOOT!

Pretty much this has been a very different semester for me at school. Usually during this time I'm stressing out over the 5 finals I have to take and wondering how I'm going to fit in work to pay off the rest of my rent. Not this year. This year I have 2 finals out of my 5 classes. What do I have to say about that? WOOT! Instead I have 3 projects to finish up, with 2 of them being group projects.

One finishes tomorrow, it's a research project about what men have done and plan to do for their weddings. It pretty much was a piece of cake since all of our findings pretty much told us what we already knew...they don't care. They want to get the ring and plan the honeymoon thats it. It makes it so easy to write of the results.

Another finishes next Tuesday, which isn't quite as easy but not in the least hard either. It's an advertising campaign for Audi. We had to figure out who Audi is marketing towards, find a position and create 4 types of ads to convey that position. We have everything done we just have to put it all together and print it out.

The third projects I don't really know what it is yet. I know its a programming project for my CIT class. I'm pretty sure we will be given a problem and have to apply and code it in javascript, but I'm not certain. The teacher hasn't posted it yet and well there is only a week left in the semester. It gets kinda stressful.

Other then those projects its just two finals, one for my CIT class (stupid Excel,) the other for my Media Law and Ethics (have yet to apply anything to the media.) Those are spread out so it shouldn't be a problem (one Friday, the other next Thursday.)

The only other problem I have is trying to figure out what I'm going to do over the break. I couldn't get any days off cause they still haven't even figured out what the schedule is going to be. I'm pretty sure I should have at least 3 days off in a row though. I was thinking about going home or going to Utah or Alaska or even Washington D.C., but I don't know. I'm sure I'll figure it out.