My Darkest Day...

Hey everyone. I guess I really need to hurry up and finish these reviews of my classes before the semester runs out. This is the semester that is hardest to put into words. It's funny how some things can be explained perfectly by words and how others simply can't be explained. The worst day of my life happened several days into this semester. The person I loved more than anything left me without a real explanation of why.Of course I fell apart rather rapidly and just lost it. I can really say that for a few weeks after it happened that I completely lost touch with reality and everything was kind of a blur. I stopped eating and sleeping and going to class for the most part, and lost quite a bit of weight(wish that would have stayed off). I can honestly say that this was me at my very worst. I must admit it certainly wasn't easy to know that someone picked up their stuff and moved home shortly after this happened. So basically I spent a couple months in my room on the couch, tv off, and lights off wallowing in the depths of misery. I credit 2 people with helping snap me out of it. The first is my dad, my dad and I had not had a good relationship for a long time but he was the one person who I actually talked to about the situation and got to hear everything I had to say about the situation. However, asking for help has never been my style so you can imagine how difficult discussing something like this with someone you aren't on great terms with was. But through it all my dad was there for me whenever I needed to talk, and that is something I will be eternally grateful for. The second person I have to thank is Jon. Jon caught me going to dinner one night when I started eating regularly again and made me come and eat with him and the rest of the guys. Jon and some of the other guys made me feel like I was welcome to hang out with them and be part of the group. This gave me something to do instead of lay around moping all the time. It didn't make the pain go away(nothing ever has) but it helped me get my life somewhat on track. Again I can never thank Jon for what he did because words can't convey what that did for me. I managed to finish the semester with ok grades and a drop. However, I was wrestling with leaving Morris for the entire semester and and even got in contact with some other schools. Anywayz, I better review the classes:P

Econ 1111 Principles of Microeconomics Prof Pareena Lawrence

This class was pretty fun. I didn't like that we had to do group work at the end of class work everyday. Those of you who know me know that I don't care much for group work. Pareena was a really good instructor and make really bad jokes that were only funny cuz she laughed at them so hard. The material wasn't the most interesting thing in the world but that class was enjoyable and she was a really good prof. She actually asked me to be a tutor for this course the next time she taught it, apparently she thought I had the personality(I have one?) and skill(hmmmm) for it. I know I was puzzled too. I give this class a b+.

Phil 2101 Intro to Symbolic Logic Prof Lory Lemke

Ok so I'm really good at logic proofs since Patrick basically taught me how to do them which basically made the first part of the course really easy. However, some of the later material and word problems were just confusing and complicated as hell. Also, the papers he assigned were rather odd and the only reason I did reasonably well on the first few was with Patrick's help. However, on the later paper's even Patrick didn't seem to know what he wanted, and if Patrick doesn't know then you know it's messed up(Patrick=god of all things Logic). Another thing that was annoying about this course is that when he made comments on your work Lemke wrote in what seemed to be a combination of pictographs and hieroglyphics which were impossible to translate. Lory was a nice guy and a decent prof but this course was dull and hard to understand in certain parts thus I give it a C-.

Phil 2111 Intro to Ethics Prof don't remember her name

This is the class I basically stopped going to as a result of my breakdown. I remember the course being okay, and it was rather easy for me since I had already done most of the readings in an earlier Bill Hunt class. I remember the prof using really neat and funny examples to demonstrate points but since I stopped caring about anything I decided that sleep was more important and stopped going to the class. I ended up using my one free drop on this class. I can't give this class a grade because I didn't experience enough of it.

Pol 3232 Con Law Prof Greg Thorson

Ok I have to admit I really kind of half assed my way through this class. I just wasn't motivated to do well at anything. However, many of the discussions from this class were rather interesting despite some of the subject matter being a bit dull at times. A fairly typical Greg Thorson class.
I give this class an A-.



So that concludes my sophomore year next time we move on to fall semester junior year. Remember I love everyone of you who reads this. Peace and much love.

-Jake