Today I officially graduated!

I also:

• wore a shirt and tie
• received a compliment regarding above mentioned tie
  
• found out that several of my friends look a lot like their parental counterparts
• sat for WAY too long
  
• clapped repeatedly in the presence of President Hinckley
• saw the Vice President of the United States
• listened to the Vice President (very enjoyable actually)
  
• spent time with friends
• took pictures
  
• saw my youngest sister
  
• ate dinner with part of my family (Dad, older brother and sister, and youngest sister)
  
• surprised several different pairs of friends when they found out that I'm friends with one of their friends independent of my relationship with them (I know a good number of people)
  
• got a cool graduation gift
  
• ate Pudding on the Rice (for free)
• had an hour and a half phone conversation with a friend
• withstood the pain of a massive headache
  

489 Throwdown

OK, so it's almost here. The end of the semester is just around the corner and Monday is our big 489 presentation to EA. Some of you know the immensity of what this means. 489 is a major part of your culminating experience as an advertising student. If any BYU film students are reading this post: it's like 419...on crack.

I just want to say that I'm way excited for Monday. I got home a couple minutes ago, the majority of my evening having been spent running through our presentation with the rest of my group again, and again, and again. I love them! They are awesome!

I can't think of a better group of people I would want to share this culminating part of my college experience with.

Ode to a guy with ILS (Imaginary Lat Syndrome)

I see you as I walk toward the stairs to the RB.
You look like you're 15, and roughly 4 ft 3.

Is it short man's complex to which you've been diagnosed?
It very well might be, but it's not what I notice most.

It's your arms, oh your arms...how they hang there so awkward
away from your sides as if you've about to jump skyward.

Why is it, I ask, that you hold yourself mid funky chicken dance?
Why is it you stand in this most akward stance?

It's my muscles you cry!
My latissimus dorsi!
There's so swollen and huge!
roughly the size of Baton Rouge!

I take a second and look to see what you mean
but I see nothing unordinary, nothing obscene.

"Are you sure that's what's wrong?"
"Oh yes, I'm quite strong."

My fears now confirmed I have to profess
It's my humble opinion, this boy has ILS.

3 Cheers for Procrastination!

So I FINALLY finished sending in all my paperwork to recieve credit for the internship I completed last spring/summer.

I have to pass

I was a little worried about my test tomorrow. I hadn't studied at all for this midterm and when our 489 group-meeting adjourned tonight it was T-minus 12 hours before I'd be sitting in class taking said test.

Haha...I'm such a procrastinator. In so much that I didn't even know how horribly I did on our first test in the class. I hadn't wanted to look because I knew it was bad. I had procrastinated studying for that one till the last minute as well.

Anyways, I've been sitting here studying for the past while and decided I should check online and see how I did on the first test. Part of me thought this was a bad idea. I mean, seeing how horribly I did isn't going to make me stress out any less. It's sad, it really is, but all I really want to do is pass the class. It's not an important class to me. I mean, it's cool and all, but it doesn't directly relate to my major. It does stress me to some extent though because I actually have to pass it in order to graduate this April.

Well, let's cut to the chase: I checked my test score for the last test. I got an 82! Beep!!! That's sweet! I'm no longer worried about doing well on this test. Heck, I could do horribly on this test and still be passing. I'm seriously contemplating going to bed now. :)

489 Update: Primary Research Time

So we are in the process of gathering primary research for our senior capstone campaign with Spore. Good Stuff. Anyways, we just posted an online survey. I think we've gotten a number of college students to take the survey but want the demographic of the survey to be a little more diverse so...

If you're graduated, or 25 or older (I know I've got a couple of you readers out there) than we would really appreciate you taking a couple minutes and filling out the survey. I will lof you long time! Here's the link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=286803198011

If you're NOT graduated, or 25 and older...I still lof you, but we've already gotten a huge number of respondence from your age bracket. :(

As far as other updates with 489...we're gonna be conducting some focus groups this week so I'm excited for that. My internship with Geppetto (I think they're in the process of relaunching their website so that link might not work) last spring was spent working as a Jr. Strategic Planner so it's been fun to apply what I learned there to what we're doing with this project.

What's that you're humming?

So I'm sitting in class and someone behind me just started humming The Offspring's "Why Don't You Get a Job" from there Americana album.
It made me smile. I think if you knew the first couple lines of lyrics that went with what he was humming it would have made you smile as well...especially considering the context of where he was humming the aforementioned song.

It begins.

So we were placed into our 489 groups today. :)
I'm so excited. F*#%, I'm elated. (That F-bomb was for you Richard, so that people in the industry will know that I'm serious.)
I will be working with some of the most amazing people I know. It's gonna be crazy fun, crazy work, and just crazy in general.
Stay tuned for more 489 madness.