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Aww, well, you're both great, so I'm glad that's a comfort to you. (Did you know Misaneroth also dropped out?)Whistler wrote:somehow knowing that Petra is also a grad school dropout really comforts me
That is a great quote.Whistler wrote:also I liked this quote "His plan is like a well-written RPG--as long as I make the best choices I can, things will turn out OK."
whaaaa he was also one of my favorite writers! Well, I guess I'm not a complete failure then! (yeah, I realize how stupid that sounds.)Katya wrote:Aww, well, you're both great, so I'm glad that's a comfort to you. (Did you know Misaneroth also dropped out?)Whistler wrote:somehow knowing that Petra is also a grad school dropout really comforts me
No, it doesn't sound stupid. I've talked to Petra a bit about her decision to drop out and it's clear that while it was a very good decision in the abstract, it's also been very hard psychologically and emotionally in terms of self-identity and not feeling like a "quitter." (In her case, her realization that her program was a bad fit also roughly coincided with her marriage, which then made her even more stressed out because she really didn't want to be a Mormon girl who dropped out of school just because she got married. She actually stayed in her program for about a year after she knew she needed to quit, because of that timing issue.)Whistler wrote:whaaaa he was also one of my favorite writers! Well, I guess I'm not a complete failure then! (yeah, I realize how stupid that sounds.)Katya wrote:Aww, well, you're both great, so I'm glad that's a comfort to you. (Did you know Misaneroth also dropped out?)Whistler wrote:somehow knowing that Petra is also a grad school dropout really comforts me
It was a very nice answer.
This actually happened to a friend's son, although I imagine it didn't go very far. (Also, it was pre-Prop 8. And maybe they weren't legally married, but they did have kids.) His mom was pretty happy, though, because her son used to throw around words like "faggot," and she figured that maybe teaching a lesbian couple on his mission would make him think more carefully about using that kind of language.mic0 wrote:When I saw this question about what to do as a missionary teaching a gay married couple about the gospel, my first reaction was a giggle and does that person going on a mission honestly think they will find a gay married couple who hasn't heard what the LDS church teaches about gay marriage and they will actually want to learn more and get baptized?
Hah, I'm somehow not even surprised this actually happened. That's an interesting story, too!Katya wrote: This actually happened to a friend's son, although I imagine it didn't go very far. (Also, it was pre-Prop 8. And maybe they weren't legally married, but they did have kids.) His mom was pretty happy, though, because her son used to throw around words like "faggot," and she figured that maybe teaching a lesbian couple on his mission would make him think more carefully about using that kind of language.
How about parent panic? I'm moving across the country this summer and then graduating in August. My mom and I were talking and she said something like "None of the girls who have moved there have gotten married." She then went on to talk about the girls from my ward who have moved there and moved back to get married.Portia wrote:http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/72157/
THANK YOU. Hopefully getting some mad facts laid down by Eirene will help quell this single ladies panic epidemic.
Hmm, my family is so opposite from everyone else's around here. Their instilling the fear of God in me about getting married too young worked perhaps too well.Violet wrote:How about parent panic? I'm moving across the country this summer and then graduating in August. My mom and I were talking and she said something like "None of the girls who have moved there have gotten married." She then went on to talk about the girls from my ward who have moved there and moved back to get married.Portia wrote:http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/72157/
THANK YOU. Hopefully getting some mad facts laid down by Eirene will help quell this single ladies panic epidemic.
I just told her no one gets married after leaving BYU anyway (in scathingly sarcastic tones).
Yeah, I think she's a bit more fun in the first book, but you're right, one of her big struggles is figuring out who she is. I was very satisfied with the resolution of that particular part of her character arc.mic0 wrote:Question about Sanderson's books and the women in them. These were good, interesting responses. I'm reading the Mistborn trilogy currently and have actually been wondering this very same question. I don't know, I liked Vin a lot more in the first book than in the second, I already feel like she is a little less... herself, but then again there is the whole issue of her changing identity within the story, so I guess that might be the point.
20 nearing 21, but yes, I am still a baby in terms of dating and life experience.Portia wrote:Hmm, my family is so opposite from everyone else's around here. Their instilling the fear of God in me about getting married too young worked perhaps too well.Violet wrote:How about parent panic? I'm moving across the country this summer and then graduating in August. My mom and I were talking and she said something like "None of the girls who have moved there have gotten married." She then went on to talk about the girls from my ward who have moved there and moved back to get married.Portia wrote:http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/72157/
THANK YOU. Hopefully getting some mad facts laid down by Eirene will help quell this single ladies panic epidemic.
I just told her no one gets married after leaving BYU anyway (in scathingly sarcastic tones).
Aren't you, like, 19?
The ever-quotable yayfulness strikes again. I have a number of friends who hate small talk and find it awkward, and I agree that small talk as an end leads to shallow interactions and stereotyping. But small talk isn't supposed to be an end; it's supposed to be a means to something better.yayfulness wrote:Look at small talk as an investment. It's like mining--you sift through a lot of boring dirt in order to find a small but valuable piece of gold.
