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Before today I had never heard the statement, "Once a cougar, always a cougar." Reflecting on it, however, I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. In high school I thought that I would always be a Don. Now that I'm out of high school I've realized how little I actually care about Spanish Fork High. BYU is different though. It has a legacy and a reputation. Going to BYU is a unique experience because of all these dang mormons. I thought it would be normal for me to go to a school with a bunch of LDS kids because my high school was hugely mormon, but it's not the same. I love that we can start class with a prayer or relate the topic in class to the gospel. I was in the PS lab the other day and one of the TA's was talking about gravity. Someone asked if the earth would eventually be sucked into the sun because of it's gravity. The TA was like, "yes, it would, except by that time the sun will have grown big enough to envelope the earth anyway. But I figure, hey, Christ will have come by then and we won't have to worry about it." I thought that was way cool that we could just talk about something like that at school. I like that I can look around the Cougareat at lunch time and see a bunch of kids praying over their food. That's not something that people feel comfortable doing anywhere else, but at BYU it's almost normal.
Once I graduate from BYU I'm not really sure what kind of responsibilities that will entail. I'm sure that according to the school it means I should donate lots of money to invest in the future or something. And if I marry a rich man that may happen. But I think it's more of a moral responsibility to keep BYU an upstanding university. If I didn't like the people I knew that came here or if people talked badly about it I wouldn't have wanted to come here. So I need to tell people why I like it so that they will have the same opportunity as me.