BYU-Inferior

No intercollegiate sports, no renowned research program, just came to continue my high school education at BYU-Isn't a real college- Idaho. Too much NCMO, too many mormons, and too many marriages at BYU-I do. Nothing to do, nowhere to go, just treeless desert at BYU-Idaho. The records office is a joke, the honor code is overkill, I want to wear pajamas in the library, and get a better education elsewhere, not BYU- Inferior. Rexburg just marks the unfortunate northern end of the I-15 Jell-O belt with hard ground, hard weather, worthless education, and Provo rejects.

An assessment is appropriate. My first semester at BYU- Idaho has closed and my second is about to commence.


Assessment: I enrolled at BYU-I because I wasn't accepted into BYU. I stay because I love Rexburg.


On occasion I hear negative remarks similar to the ones mentioned but they hold little water, and certainly it is the minority that opines as such. As usual, the ignorant minority screams louder than well-balanced and content majority.


I had the privilege to interview Brother Lane Williams at the end of last semester. He implements the teaching model the best of any teacher I have yet seen, and it is clear that he understands it.


In the interview I asked him regarding students who desire to leave the university because of the BYU-I Inferiority Complex. He returned speaking in terms of mission.

 "I would tell a student listen to the spirit. If the spirit is telling you to go some where else go somewhere else. But If they don't think the university is prestigious enough, you have to take a look at what the university is trying to be and ask if it is achieving its mission... This is a phenomenal university in terms of acheiving its mission.

"[They say] its Rexburg, its Idaho, its this, its that, its not prestigious, well they’re right this isn’t prestigious, this will never be, this will never be on the worlds prestige.

"But will it deliver an education that is first rate that may be in everyway as good as what you get at those other places and in some ways better.. the answer is Yes.

"If you want a good education that is interesting and powerful where you will learn to get a job and to enhance your testimony and to be built, there is no place better than BYU-Idaho, period."

BYU-I's mission, he said, is to give the highest quality education to the most students for the best price, and this it accomplishes.

So in conclusion I say it's all about making limeade with the limes that grow on your side of the fence. Take what is given to you and embrace it, cherish it, and make the most of it, because it is all you've got. I find that more often than not, the best place for you to be is right where you are. 

Put in all you have and you will receive the best education in the world.


Good semester to everybody, and good night.


Sincerely,
George Simons