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Show Monday, Aug. 31, 2009 Page 14 Choral education student moves to USUfor better experience By KIRSTEN REIMSCH1ISSEL Law: Students wishing to attend law school must score well on the LSAT LI continued from page 13 of applicants is expected to much higher, reaching into the hundreds of thousands, according to the LSAC Web site. "Law schools always receive more applications than they have openings." Sherlock said. When deciding on what law school to attend, students should know that law schools generally hire regionally, with the exception of the major law schools such as Harvard and Yale, Sherlock said. So if staff writer Utah Statesman: What year in school are you? Sarah Udson: Junior US: Where are you from? SU:Wash. D.C. US: What brought you to USU? SU: I started at Eastern Arizona College, then I graduated and my choir teacher recommended here because of the great program. a student wants to live in a particular region, they should try to attend school in that region, he said. The process to apply to law school can be lengthy and needs to be done in advance but after taking the test in offered in December, students will still be able to apply to any law school for the fall 2010 semester, Sherlock said. Preparation is essential for the LSAT and the course offered at Utah State, and other similar courses can help increase the chances for students to obtain a high LSAT score and be accepted into a law school, Sherlock said. The LSAT preparation course is a six-week course with classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 6 p.m. and the cost is $500. For more information, contact Melanie Klein at melanie.klein@usu. edu. -seth.bracken@aggiemail. usu.edu US: What do you enjoy most about at USU? SU: 1 love the teachers, the atmosphere, the huge library, food that tastes really good on campus and the convenience. US: What is your major? SU: Choral education A USU CHORAL STUDENT, Sarah Udson, said she hopes to teach music on a collegiate level post graduation. Pete Smithsuth photo US: What do you want to do with your major? SU: I've written a couple songs. I recorded one song for a gift for one of my friends going SU: It depends on my family and if I need to on mission (for The Church of Jesus Christ stay home. 1 may want to start teaching at a of Latter-day Saints). Sometimes I even think high school, because I don't have patience entire thought trains in music. with little kids. I want to eventually get my master's and teach at a college or university, US: What is your biggest accomplishment like Eastern Arizona College. thus far? US: How do you think your degree will benefit others? SU: Music comes easy to me, so having kept up so long with dance is probably my biggest accomplishment. It doesn't come easy for me. I had goals in it and 1 got them. SU: I know it will benefit others because I will be a teacher. I grew up with a love of music and I get to know lots of people. Choir is such a social atmosphere. I think I will help people a lot. US: Where do you see yourself 10 years from AS MONKS CHANT, PETE SMITHSUTH vowes to be ordaned into monkhood during an hour long initiation ceremony. Photo courtesy of Pete Smithsuth now? SU: I'd like to be married with kids and still working. I want to be teaching private voice and composing. US: Have you written any of your own music? We Treat Students Right! 55 East 2000 North North Logan COMPLETE CAR CARE 755-9997 www.tunex.com • Save gas with a fuel saving tune-up from TUNEX • Diagnostics are included FREE with every tune-up Af Blair rift Welcome Back Special Tunex 55 East 2000 North I 1 • CV , Emivnon* • Tramum«•«*** * A-C * f'luhrlK* * Alirm.i|i>t^ Safely IftMpCL'tKN) " UM.'«I Car tiuliuiiims * Cm-Imp Sji^rni* OH-Fiier-lube, ptus complete martance check-up Most cars and light trucks > Dolt ! All! Monk: Finding happiness internally, not from materialism. [J continued from page 13 drives to work, stresses about work all day, drives home, sleeps and repeat. Bhikkhus may have simple steps in their lives, but every moment they are contemplating about the true meaning of nature. They cut excesses such as television and fancy clothing by being aware in every breath they take as sighs of being alive, Forget about stopping to smell the roses. Whenwas the last time yqu stopped and coascip^ly.took a breath? i •< The word Buddha in Pali means "one who is awakened." Buddha teaches his followers to find happiness not from external materialism, such as money, possessions or beauty. These things, as it turns out, are not forever and can be gained, lost, and passed along as part of nature. He teaches his followers to look within oneself through meditation, gaining knowledge, and living in accordance to the teachings,to find the keys to natural truth. After I left the monastic life, I looked back at the past two decades of my life as temporarily gaining happiness through the use of materialism. I didn't realize that even though it makes me happy to buy things, it only made me suffer more because I would want more. | wouldn't be able to, Buy'everything, and that thinj^fffflPSHJl be lost. When I was a Bhikkhu, I slept on. .hard floors, ate one meal a i t y l not check Facebook. However, I describe how content I felt with my life. Through learning about myself, I gained an understanding to become a peaceful individual during my three short weeks as a Bhikkhu in Thailand. Pete Smithsuth is a senior majoring in aviation technology. Look for more columns J regarding students abroad every Monday in. \ The Utah Statesman?" $32.95 Shell Come play Northern Utah's Best-Kept Secret. 18 Championship Holes Driving Range Practice Putting & Chipping Greens G O L F C O U R S E 550 East 100 North Smithfield, Utah 435-563-6825 Fall USU Student Special: 9 Holes of Golf, Sunday-Friday $10, must show current USU ID. IN THIS MONDAY, AUG. 24, PHOTO, ARMY SQT. 1ST CLASS, Jason Montesanto, a close friend of Cpl. Nicholas R. Roush , who with him when he was killed in Afghanistan, pauses at his casket, in the First Baptist Church, in Middleville, Mich. AP photo Vigil set for Utah soldier] killed in Afghanistan (AP) - A candlelight vigil has been scheduled for Monday night for a Utah soldier killed in Afghanistan. Army Staff Sgt. Kurt Curtiss of Murray was fatally shot Tuesday in a firefight as his unit tried to clear a group of insurgents out of a hospital in Paktika Province, Army spokesman Nathan Banks said. The 27-year-old Curtiss is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, a 9-year-old son and a 6-year-old daughter. Curtiss had two prior tours of duty in Iraq and told his mother that the situation he found in his most recent deployment in Afghanistan was "brutal." "He didn't say much more than that," his mother, Ruth Serrano of South Ogden, told the Salt Lake Tribune. "I don't know if he wasn't allowed to, or if he just didn't want to worry people. I don't know." . At least 46 U.S. service members have died so far this month in Afghanistan, the most since the start of the eight-year war. The candlelight vigil is set to begin at 8:30 p.m. Monday at his family's South Ogden home on 37th Street. A makeshift memorial also has been posted outside the home. ..-. '1 |