The Saga Continues.....

Hey everyone. Hard to believe that in a matter of weeks I will be graduating and forced to make a decision about where to attend law school. Things that require a lot of thought suck :( I keep hoping law school is gonna be a fresh start for me somewhere and hopefully I can shed the weight of my past failures, easier said then done though. Oh well I thought I better keep this story going so that I can end the school year with a post thanking everyone who made my college experience memorable and saying some things that I need to say to each of you. But for now the fall semester of my junior year. After a ton of debate I decided to return to Morris instead of transferring. I wrestled with this decision all summer, because I felt that returning to Morris betrayed something I had once told someone, in a way I still feel that way. However, when I came back I was extremely lucky that a beautiful lady took an interest in me. I am talking of course about the lovely Susy McCabe. Susy made me feel dateable again and helped restore part of the confidence I had lost. A lot of people couldn't understand exactly how important something like this is until you lose it and have to get it back. I consider myself lucky to have dated such a wonderful and beautiful girl. I also had a lot of good friends to make things fun: Patrick, Jon, Evan,Chris ... this is also the semester that I met Brad and Alex. I liked Alex from the moment I met him, he just kind of fit in naturally like he had been here for years. My first memory of brad is him telling us to check out the Dirty Danza website, while disgusted I also laughed my ass off and thought brad was our kinda people. As for classes here is how it went down.

History 1101 Intro to History of the world to 1500 Prof Jennifer Deane This class was about what I expected from an intro course. However, Jennifer made it fun and interesting. Our discussion group was a lot of us debating back and forth. I can't decided whether I talk to much or just have a rather dominating personality when put in that type of group setting. Anywayz the class wasn't bad and was fairly easy. Also Jenn is very attractive. I give this class a B.

History 3207 The Crusades Prof Jennifer Deane This class rocked ass! This is one of the most fun and interesting classes I have ever taken. I genuinely liked the readings and going to class every day. I also liked the disputatio thing we had to do because I utterly destroyed the other kids I was partnered with :) Also Dana and I would always be whispering funny observations back and forth, Dana pretty much rocked her disputatio thing too. Overall the class was tons of fun and Jenn did a great job making the material fun and interesting. I give this class an A+.

Pol 3351 Political Thought : Ancient and Medieval Prof Bill Hunt Ok, for those of you who don't know already there is an excellent strategy for getting an A in a Bill Hunt class. The strategy is as follows repeat everything Bill has said in your papers and tests and during class discussion pretend to be uber left wing or even in favor of socialism or communism and never let on that you are conservative in any way at all. I guess I have learned to adapt myself to a a variety of situations in order to yield the result I want, a very important skill especially for any class Bill teaches. Overall the material was ok, it drug out sometimes and many of the other people in the class weren't very good to debate with. I give this class a C-.

Pol 4211 The American Presidency Prof Greg Thorson I think between me and Mac we skipped every Friday session of this class. This is prolly the Greg Thorson class I liked the least. The subject matter was just not all that exciting or interesting. Greg did his best to the class interesting and fun which he always does a great job at. But the history and poli sci writings of the American Presidency was just not all that interesting to me. I give this class a B.

Anywayz, stay tuned for the last 3 semesters and the special post to see if I have some things to say to ya. Remember I love everyone of ya. Peace and much love.

-Jake