Free resources - Brigham Young University-Idaho Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
BYU-Idaho has the best on-campus resources for financial advice, if you need financial counseling, if you need academic advising, fitness advising, if you're looking for service opportunities or job opportunities. There's a lot of really good resources on the BYU-Idaho website that are free. Very few of them cost money. I think the fitness, there's a personal training program that costs some money, but provides a really like a plethora of advantages. So I would just explore the school website and see what they can provide for you, because you will be so surprised.
Video 2 Transcript
Okay, so everybody knows about the library on campus, and most people know that there is a library in town as well. And some people might be familiar with some apps such as Libby that might connect their libraries at home. Libby works with the library here in town. You just need to bring proof of residence, I think it's called. But there's also through BYU-Idaho, it's also through the other CES schools, and Overdrive where they have extra resources online. Some of those are books, some of them are movies, some of them are audiobooks. And so if you go to byu.overdrive.com, I believe it will take you there and you can see all the resources that they have online.
Video 3 Transcript
One of the best free resources I know of near BYU-Idaho is a food bank connected to the Family Crisis Center. It's in a parking lot a couple blocks away from campus and it's completely free. You just have to give information so they make sure that you live within the boundaries and it is super helpful if you at any point are struggling with money or struggling with food while in college. I definitely encourage checking it out.
Video 4 Transcript
So I took a public speaking class my second semester when I was at BYU-Idaho, and in that public speaking class you go to like it's like a public speaking lab kind of where you go and you present your presentation to a couple of people and they give you really good advice and these are people who are well into their major for communications and they have a lot of great things to say. I did it and it helped especially with the group presentation that we had. They were able to give some really good advice and obviously it's free so I would recommend it.
Video 5 Transcript
Okay, so this is the second scriptural resource that I want to share with you, and it's called Strong's Concordance, and if you google it, it's the one at leyah.com, and you can also get it as an app on iPhones. But this is really cool because what you do is you look up like a scripture in the Bible, and it'll have the words written in English, but you can click on the individual words and it will tell you the original Greek or Hebrew lexicon. And so it would have the characters for that word. It would say what that word is, like how to pronounce it, and then it'll also tell you other places where that same original word was used. And so you can look at other scriptures where you're like, oh, I never even thought because they translated it differently in English that those would be the same word. And it just changes the way you understand some scriptures because it gives you way more insight on what the authors originally intended.
Video 6 Transcript
Oh my gosh, there's so many free resources. One of the best ones is tutoring. You get free tutoring for basically like any class. Any class. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. And especially if you need help with math, there's even a specific lab for math that's free. You can also get tutoring anytime you need. You can have like three tutoring sessions per week. It's pretty dang nice. So yeah, tutoring is for free.
Video 7 Transcript
If you're thinking of going to a movie with your friends, but you want to know the content beforehand, or if you want to be a parent someday who is kind of in the loop with kind of what your parents, what kind of media your kids are consuming, there's this awesome website called Common Sense Media. It gives ratings in different areas to movies and TV shows, including I think even down to episodes. You can look up a movie and it'll, for example, give it a rating for consumerism out of five, give it a rating for violence, give it a rating for sex and romance. Anyway, all those things, and you can click on each of those, like if you're like, okay, I don't mind getting spoilers, like that's a high enough rating that I want to know why they gave it that. And these are ratings given by parents and stuff that use it.
Video 8 Transcript
The library database, so the library itself isn't very large, but they have access to everything that you can get at BYU-Idaho. You can request any book you want that BYU's large library has and they'll send it over to you. That's you can get any book from BYU and they have subscriptions to tons of different scholarly journals and so when it comes to research, BYU-Idaho is a very good school. They have a lot of good resources to teach yourself. The nice scholarly articles and that comes with tuition, it's completely free once you're a student there and it is honestly a very nice resource that has been very useful for me doing my research in school.
Video 9 Transcript
A free resource that people don't know about that I think is really cool is the Counseling Center. It's upstairs from the Student Health Building, but they have not just like counseling one-on-one, but they have a lot of support groups, whether it's for like a roommate, a spouse, just a relationship, whether it's like something you are struggling with and you want to hear other students' perspectives. They have really good opportunities and great people there to help you out, and it's all free just for being a student.
Video 10 Transcript
Okay, so you may know about the Counseling Center at BYU-Idaho, and I think you get two free semesters of counseling, but sometimes you don't need like a full-on counselor even. Sometimes you might just need like something to check in on you and like, oh how's my mental health doing today and what might the factors be or whatever. And there's this really awesome resource that I believe they still use because I looked it up on the website and it was still there, but it's called Therapy Assistance Online, TAO, T-A-O, and it is an app that you can get on your phone and you get it for free through BYU-Idaho, and it has so many things on there. It has free like courses that teach you about coping skills. It has questionnaires and all kinds of other things for you.
Video 11 Transcript
Okay, if you are in a major where you know you'll probably have to go to grad school, or you're preparing to go to grad school, or considering going to grad school, I have a great podcast for you. It is the only podcast I know of for grad school students that is made by grad school students. And so because of that, it is much more personable than maybe a podcast made by a professor or something. And they talk about much more, like many more of the kind of unofficial kind of experiences as a grad school student. Things that people don't always talk about, like when tragedy strikes in your family, how do you cope with that while you're in grad school? How do you prepare for a grad school interview? And so many more things. How do you find the right grad school? Anyway, and so I really recommend the podcast. This is grad school.
Video 12 Transcript
Okay, so if you're writing a lot of essays where you have to cite your sources, whether that's an APA or MLA, there is an awesome website called Citation Machine, and it basically creates a citation for you. It doesn't always do it perfectly, just like the citations that you can find when you do like scholar.google.com don't always make the citation correctly. Just make sure you check it on Owl Purdue, but it makes the process a lot quicker and simpler. But if you just put in all the information you know, like it'll have a blank for each thing, like a box for like putting the title, a box for putting the book it's from, um, I don't know if it's like title of the article, title of the book, you know, you put in whatever information you do have and then it makes a citation for you with like whatever italics or quotation marks or whatever you need. Yeah, highly recommend.
Video 13 Transcript
Campus offers lots of free resources for, you know, health-wise, mentality, physicality. Now, if you need food and stuff like that, go and volunteer and then also seek refuge in the food banks. They'll help you.
Video 14 Transcript
Don't automatically assume that you know every free resource that's on campus. From my experience, just asking people, well, you know, like staff or faculty would kind of trigger up, well, maybe this person I know would know. And the whole networking thing brought access to free resources. I mean, the ones I can think about right now off the top of my head, you have health center for health issues or a psychological counseling. That's a free resource up to a certain limit. You have a business center or career center, which allows you to plan your next steps to help you fine tune your resume. I mean, I could go on and on. But look, don't automatically presume that you know every free resource. Just ask and you might be surprised to.
Video 15 Transcript
Okay, so we've all heard of writer's block and that doesn't just apply to English majors, that applies to anybody that has to write an essay or whatever. Sometimes it's just hard to get started. There is this thing called fighter's block. If you just google fighter's block, it's usually the first, should be the first thing. It's on a github.io website. But anyway, basically someone just kind of gamified writer's block to get you to start writing, which I wish I figured out about sooner because that was one of my biggest struggles as a student was just being able to get started, like get my brain to go, okay, I know I have things, but just like, just write it, just write it. And so just starting somewhere is sometimes the hardest part. And so it basically just turns it into a game to get you to keep writing. And you have to keep typing.
Video 16 Transcript
If you find yourself making slideshows a lot, the resource I have for you is called SlidesGo. It just makes for much prettier presentations, first of all, and also makes for really nice layouts, like if you have something specific you're going for, whether it's like if you're going to have a lot of numbers and stats or whatever. You can choose from so many free presentations layouts that have different kind of graphs, and you can kind of just find which ones might visually represent better the data, and that is just super nice. The second one I want to share with you is, it can do anything basically, but it's called Canva, and I feel like it's almost an Adobe replacement, but you can do so much for free on it, and also if you work with the school, it is free to you as well, so that's pretty cool.
Video 17 Transcript
Okay, so the first spiritual scriptural resource that I'll share with you is the BYU Citation Index. So this isn't a BYUI resource, but it's a free resource. What this does is basically you can have multiple things by side by side. I'll show you what it looks like. So you can have multiple scriptures or talks side by side to each other. But why that's helpful is that, for example, if there is a scripture that confuses you, you're like, I don't get how that fits in our gospel or whatever. Like I need that interpreted in modern day language or something. Then what you do is you look up one of these scriptures and it'll tell you all the talks where this scripture was referenced. So you look up a scripture and then they refer in these different talks and maybe they have like different ways of kind of analyzing it or something. And so that's just a really good insight to scripture or resource.
Video 18 Transcript
This resource is most helpful for English majors or people that just like language and understand the words that they use, or people that are like, oh that word's on the tip of my tongue and that's driving me crazy that I can't think of it. So the first one is that one for when a word is on the tip of your tongue but you can't think of it, and it's called OneLook. OneLook.com, and I use this all the time because that happens to me all the time, but basically it has a lot of different ways that you can search for things. So you can basically be like, it starts with this letter and it means this, and it'll pull up all the possible words that start with that letter and basically mean that. It gives you a lot of results, but it's worth it if you're good at filtering through. The second one is etymonline.com, and that gives you the etymology of words, and so you can kind of find out why did this word, like how did this word get to mean this, and where it began.
Video 19 Transcript
A free resource that I really really love is the tutoring center. I didn't really go much or take advantage of it my first year here, but since then I have realized how wonderful it is. There are tutors that are incredible and they will help you and time is very flexible and you are able to go up in the library and it's just a quiet calm environment and you're able to get help for whatever class you need and you can do online or you can go into the tutoring center and yeah it's all just right there. It's very simple, it's a great resource, helps a lot with classes and studying and you can go once or you can set up like a weekly thing or bi-weekly thing or however you want to do it.
Video 20 Transcript
More resource for those who it helps them to have a checklist to have something that kind of automatically moves oldest things to the top of the priorities and also it follows the oh I can't remember what it's called but the the kind of chart where it organizes things that are urgent and important as the top of it and then things that are urgent but not important or things that are urgent or important not important but urgent anyway it puts those in order anyway this app is called to do list and I think it's one of the most helpful things that I've ones that I've found to kind of just organize and and you can actually organize those four categories in any way you want whatever feels most important you can move to the top for yourself and you can also put dates on them and stuff but they'll move closer to the top if they have a date
Video 21 Transcript
You can find online dictionaries from different years. So there's a Webster's Dictionary from 1828 and that is super helpful because the Book of Mormon finished being translated in 1829. And so it's just kind of cool to see why Joseph might have picked certain words. And so sometimes when a word maybe doesn't seem to feel right with our current understanding, it seems to be like, are we using a modern definition of that word? You can actually look up that word back in that day and see more why he might have picked that word to translate, which is super cool.
Video 22 Transcript
If you have a hard time getting started with tasks, or just are having a hard time in general with accomplishing goals in your life or feeling motivated, a lot of the psychology behind video games that makes it addictive and whatever, can actually be used for good in accomplishing your goals. And so one app that I would recommend is called Habitica, and it gamifies the goal-making experience. And so you would have several sections, one of them would be like your dailies, that would be like your morning routine. And then, and you need to do those every day or else they'll dock you points or whatever. And then you'll have your habits that you just give yourself points when you do them. And so the more often you do them, and the more often you see them on your list, and they're thinking about them, the more often it'll become a thing for you. And so it just breaks those things down, and then you just get like fun, cute little things for your character and little animals and stuff. So it's fun.
Video 23 Transcript
Particularly my freshman year, I definitely used the tutoring for a physics class that I was struggling with big time. That was just a nice free resource that they have that you can do pretty much whenever you want. So just something free and easy if you need tutoring, I would recommend that.
Video 24 Transcript
If you are having troubles with your laptop, you can often get a free diagnosis and sometimes even get it fixed if it's a quick fix. My version of a quick fix is not the same as the tech center's version of a quick fix, but you can set up an appointment. I believe it's with the tech center. You'd have to call around a little bit to figure out, but it's the ones that are in the library and they set up an appointment with you and you bring your laptop in and when I did that, they were like, yeah, no, that's free. Like, yeah. And so they fixed when my computer started freaking out and it probably had a bug or something. And so they like wiped certain things and then it was good to go. It was awesome.
