Well, it's been fun!

Well folks, for anyone that even cared to read this (which i don't blame you at all for not), it's been real, it's been fun, it hasn't been real fun. So i think in the end we've learned some things, but also forgot some things as well. I hope you take care and who knows, maybe i'll start my own real blog sometime just for fun! Thanks again!

ArcGIS gets easier?!

Amazing! Today we actually learned that Arc can have some easy properties to it! We learned how to do a legend, north arrow, title, and scale! All of these things were actually kind of easy! The other cool things was that we also added correct colors. I'm still frustrated with the fact that i'm so far behind. I've never been this far behind in this class before so i don't know if i'll be able to catch up. I'll certainly try!
The last movie i saw in the theaters was Madagascar 2. It was alright. The penguins really made the movie worth it!

GIS and You

Today was much better as far as the learning aspect goes. We learned about GIS...well an extremely abbreviated version. What we did get to do was go around campus and take some measurements on some garbage cans and light posts so we could enter them into ArcGIS. Frustrations come from the fact that i wish we had more time to learn the material...but it is cool!
Now, what will be the toughest thing this week is everything. Not only do i have a physics test i have to take, but for this class i have an arcGis project assignment to finish, a poster to make, a presentation to come up with, and final draft of the paper to make all for this class. Then, for geomorphology i have a ten page research paper i have to write with a powerpoint presentation to give for it too. I don't know how i'm going to get through all of this. So there ya go!

labels in arc

Well, i think my blog posts keep getting more depressing and frantic as the days go by...and this one isn't much better. I'm getting so behind in everything and it doesn't help that i was deathly ill for the entire thanksgiving break and couldn't do anything to get caught up. It's a sick irony if you ask me...literally. So today we learned how to do labels in arcgis and it's cool but i think there is way too much too it than is necessary. It's pretty ridiculous. I don't even have my shapefiles drawn so i had to make a quick one in order to do anything today. So i'm probably going to forget everything i learned today which kills me because i want to learn this stuff...i just have huge research papers in every other class i have and don't have time for this assignment. I just don't. I'm sorry. Anyway, like i said, it was cool to learn how to do the labels and that it can do all of that.
As far as my favorite internet site goes...probably facebook...i dont' surf the internet hardly at all.

OH man...lots of arc

Today was pretty frustrating. I just kept getting behind. I don't know...there's just so much to do and to remember that i have a hard time with everything. However, what was cool was that we did make the dino quarry in 3-d and then we learned how soar as a bird over our creation. That was really cool!
As far as my thanksgiving plans go, me and my sister are going to my Grandma's house in Grace Idaho for a couple of days and we are bringing our friend from back home with us too because he doesn't have anywhere to go. Then, we are going to go to Lava Hot springs and sit in the hot pots and finally relax. That will be nice...then go home and and do papers....arrggh!

ArcGIS again

Well, we've been continuing to to work with Arc and it's a really tough program. I think it's a combination of everything hitting us at once it other classes that makes it hard to focus...at least for me. So, sadly, i've gotten behind in the Arc work. But, it is neat to learn the program as a whole, because once we got it down we'll be able to use it in the future for field camp and those kinds of things. I really think it's cool how you can make your own contacts on a mylar sheet, scan it in, and then overlay it on a topo map and georeference it! It was great. I'm just frustrated because i'm slow in these things. I need to go over it again and again. Oh well, i'll get it.
Now, as for the random questions, the best book i read recently was....oh wait....i haven't read for fun since before the mission. Oh my gosh...that's the saddest thing in the world. I've just read gospel related thins and text books!! I live a sad existence. However, i did start reading a fantasy book written by a professor here at BYU actually, called Elantris. It's good to read something for fun. But i haven't been able to pick it back up for at least a month *sniff*. Also, as far as Christmas music goes...i'm an after thanksgiving kind of a guy. People are just too crazy about it and i think you need to give thanksgiving a chance before you jump the gun and go onto Christmas.

The amazingly counterintuitive world ArcGIS!

Alright then, today we started to learn about the amazing program of ArcGIS!  This is a great program in which you can pretty much do just about anything you would ever want to do with a geological picture.  My a ha moment today was that you can actually type in specific coordinates of an area you want and it will take you directly to that spot.  Also, that pyramids are good!  Click "yes" for pyramids!!!  The only thing I'm still frustrated with is how counterintuitive it really is.  All the bugs don't really help things either but luckily we are in this class so we can learn all about it.  

Now, as far as my favorite places to eat are i would most definitely have to say Tucanos.  I love that place because seriously, not only is there an all you can eat salad bar, fruit, pasta, etc.  but you get all you can eat meat of any kind you want!  I mean come on, it doesn't get much better than that!