Validation

I really hope this video works, I don't know if it is youtube.com or my internet that is being silly as of late and only playing my videos every 5-7 time I click it. The video is kinda long, and kinda corny but I promise you will smile. Also I like TJ Thyne.


In the past 48 hours validation has been key in my activities. For the 4th of July I got up at 4:30 and volunteered at the Freedom Run, a cool free shirt may have been a swaying factor for this choice. My job was a course pointer, fun right, I get to make sure people don't get lost and run a 15K instead of the 10K they were racing. Well that would be the case except since they were running down the streets of Provo, the police obviously had to block of the road so there was only one direction they could run(unless they thought the run was a cross between track and field events and long distance and they figured they were supposed to hurdle the barricades). Well if I didn't need to point, what was my purpose, well I figured I should encourage and validate their efforts. Now I was not nearly as good as TJ Thynes is at validating and in all honesty I kind of stunk at it, but it is difficult to validate 1,000 people at one time as they run past you. Mostly I just told those who looked tired that they were done with the first hill and lucky for them a downhill slope was coming up. Overall it was a lot of fun and service provides a self validation.

The second validation came from my sworn enemy, the Grant Building. I have gone into battle against this building and so many times come out defeated but not today! As I walked out and looked onto the screen at the bottom of the stairs of doom, there was the word FANTASTIC next to a 98% that was next to my ID number. After 2 years of taking tests I FINALLY got a happy comment. I know a little pathetic, but to my defense all of my religion tests have been online, in class or take home. As much as I don't like Statistics 121 because it bores me to death, I have to have some respect for it because without it, I may have never gotten those words of encouragement. It's also an amazing feat because I took the test as soon as I could physically take it, the testing center opened at 12 today and I got out of class at 12:50 headed to the Grant Building and was out of there by 2 only took 57 min., when according to my teacher the average time for a stats is is 90 min with a standard deviation of 15 min. (If my teacher was accurate in the mean and standard deviation/or if I remembered her correctly, that means my z-score is 2 and only 1.4% of the class will take the test faster than I did)

To top all of this validation of I went to golf class today and was practicing my chipping and I chipped a ball into the hole I was aiming for (key word being aiming, multiply times I've practiced on the chipping green and put my ball into the hole to the left or to the right of the one I was aiming for)