Sophmore Year Fall Semester- The Calm Before the Storm

Hey everyone. So as the title indicated this is the review of the fall semester of my sophmore year, but I'm gonna include the summer session I took before this as well. At this point I was really loving my life because everything seemed to be going my way and I was truly happy for the first time in my life.....gosh looking back it seems like forever since this all happened. During the fall I was living with Patrick although neither of us spent much time in our room, really it was just a place to store things and visit once in awhile. I was kind of an adopted member of Spooner basement where I lived with fiance at the time, having a bathroom to myself was nice and I enjoyed getting to spend lots of time with my signifcant other, although sometimes I'm sure got I her way or annoyed her a bit, I of all people realize what a pain in the ass I can be sometimes. Anywayz back to the review which your all dying to read. \

Music 1041 Intro to Music Prof: I don't remember his name

Ok so the only reason I did well in this class is the help of my fiance at the time who basically coached me through the things he wanted us to know like identifying notes by sound and playing stuff on the piano. The class was relatively enjoyable and the prof was ok I remember thinking to myself a lot that he was a major metrosexual and that he was prolly bi also. On the whole(hehe I said hole) it wasn't a terrible class but it was annoying to have to deal with some of the unreasonable expectations of the class that were definitely outside my skill set.I give this class a C-.


Phys 1052 The Solar System Prof Gordon MacIntosh

This class rocked. Despite looking like a member of ZZ Top Gmac was an awesome prof who knew his stuff backward forwards and sideways. I had an awesome lab partner for this class who was exceptionally fast so we always got done with our lab first. This class was extremely well taught and gmac even managed to sneak a few really good jokes in once in awhile. I give this class an A.

Hist 1301 Intro to U.S. History Prof Rolland Guyotte

This class was really cool. Roland is definitely one of the most intelligent professors I have had. He had a rather odd lecture style and kind of jumped all over the place but he managed to cram so much cool information in each lecture it was worth listening to. I had this class with Dana and I remember giving her quite a few notes this semester for days she had missed. For a discussion leader I had the girl who sat 2nd chair violin next to my ex and would always tell her how I basically owned the discussion group, what can I say I rock(omg I'm such a dirty liar). Rolland was a really cool prof who gave tons of info and gave pretty decent tests. Overall I give this class a B+.


Pol 1401 Intro to World Politics Prof Jay Nisly

It is to bad that Nisly left and got a job at a major university instead of staying and teaching at UMM. A very knowlegeable and fun prof who incorporated humor with quite a few of his lectures but still conveyed the necessary information. I really wish I could have taken an upper division course with him while he was here . The only downfall of this class was listening to lots of stupid people voice their opinions on world politics. This one girl was obsessed with Brazil because that's where she was from and she would always repeatedly talk about why Brazil was better than America at completely random times. We also had other random idiots in this class who had similar behaviors. Stupid people aside Nisly made the course enjoyable and gave really easy tests. I give this class a B.


Pol 3201 The Legislative Process Prof Greg Thorson

So this is the semester when Greg became my advisor and learned who I was lol. This is also the first class where I really knew my friend Mac Wilson. I really enjoyed this class because I really like Greg's teaching style. We talked a lot about the presidential election that happened in November. There was quite a bit of reading in this class which was rather annoying at times but it was usually fairly manageable. When we did our committee exercise at the end of the year I had fun and especially enjoyed being the chairman of our fake committee(me with any type of power is a scary thing). The moment I won't forget from this class is the one time Greg offered to let me teach class for a day. I give this class an A.

Pol 4221 Judicial Politics Prof Greg Thorson

Poor Greg he had to see me everyday of the week for the entire semester. This class was relatively small and Jen was there too. Jen and I weren't well acquainted yet but I remember thinking she was rather bright when she talked. Most of this class seemed like Greg and I talking back and forth which no one else seemed to mind. I really enjoyed most of the reading from this class since I am interested in law and things relating to law and as to be expected Greg made this class very fun and interesting. I give this class an A and I still feel sorry for Greg for having to see me every day of the week for an entire semester.


So that does it for summer semester and fall semester of sophmore year. This was a period of my life which made me really happy. I suppose I should be grateful that I got to be so happy for a year and a half but I find myself missing it more than being thankful for it. Anywayz next semester is when the wheels really came off the bus and things went from great to awful. However, I will save that happy and exciting topic for my next post. I hope you are doing well and succeeding in your various endeavors. I love everyone of ya who reads this on a regular basis. Peace and much love.

-Jake