BYU! Sweet bud! What program? I'm planning on going to Marriott School of Management in a few years :D In a year, you'll prob be on your mission so you got one year to be here :D
I'm still going to respond - any points wrongly being seen as valid is sad. And I'm going to respond to that nanotube thread started without me... (I just got settled into BYU this week, but I'll be active again soon!)
I see you've taken a lot of heat at your thread. I wasn't the best seminary student, so I can't see how we can be of help. I say we just be polite and friendly to everyone, people will notice.
I just came back from YLC, a kid in my house talked about EFY, apparently it is a bit longer and larger then YLC, that's why it might be more expensive. Our YLC is just southern Ontario. The money covers all the food, dorms (our sucked this year), renting the facilities, flying in a guest speaker etc. Well, the guest speakers (not the ones in area, the ones further away) obviously don't get paid, but their tickets are paid for. IMO it is better for us to pay then for it come out of our tithing and fast offerings.
For us it is $70 for YLC, and it goes to Fast Offerings here. I can talk about almost anything with anyone, I guess it can be called a talent.
YLC is an awesome experience, you should go to EFY at least once, trust me, its fun. I came here to talk about military theory and social behaviors, but redefined objectives because not a lot of people here talk about those often.
Hey hey, finally a fellow LDS here ;) I'm leaving for YLC (you probably call it EFY where you are) tomorrow, so I'll chat later.