Ethan Parker

Last August I practice graduated by walking at commencement without having all my classes done. First day of school was today! After deferring a semester it really feels like I’m coming back to some kind of friendly organization after a long distant vacation.

American Heritage was very impressive today. It was so humorous and well-rhythmed that it seemed rehearsed.  Dr. Pope started off the class with the scene from Wizard of Oz where Dorothy accidentally melts the wicked witch with water. Sweet. He said it taught the principle of freeing captives or whatever. The flying monkeys are now free!

After introducing himself the professor asked the students if they had any questions – one girl asked “aside from family and professional accomplishments, what are you most proud of deep down and personally?” Wow. That was a hilariously good question with an answer to compliment it. His answer was that he and some friends in college beat the BYU “college bowl” (knowledge bowl thing) team and their name was “those darn quasars”. Nice.

BYU is a great place. Country dance is going to be fun.

Ethan