The story ends....

Hey everyone. You know it's a weird feeling walking around a place that you have been for a good bit of time and will be leaving shortly, especially when you don't know the next time you will be back. I will miss my friends and such here in Morris but at the same time I am very glad to be leaving. I really feel like the last 2 years has been me just dragging myself to the finish line so I can move on the next race(I know I know fat guys shouldn't use racing analogies). I have a lot of good memories here and made quite a few good friends, that being said I carry a lot of baggage with me as well and I'm interested to see if a fresh start will help alleviate some of my many problems. A lot of you probably have no idea what I am talking about cuz you aren't as screwed up as I am :) Anywayz here is how it broke down for my last semester here.

IS 1341 Intro to World Religions Instructor Patrick Murphy

This class was really easy. Once a week+ met for 2 hrs,+10 pt open note quiz at the end of each class+easy sauce tests= Victory for the Vanilla Gorilla. I actually did learn quite a bit about a number of different world religions from this class. By the way, people that believe in Scientology and Kabbalah are just plain weird, normally I don't like to knock people's religions....but c'mon. I would amuse me greatly to sit down with one of these Scientology auditor ppl, let them use their e-meter on me, then tell me why my soul is unhappy because of something that happened 10 trillion years ago in a galaxy far away. Maybe I was Xenu's Lt or something like that and owned a sweet pad on the home planet. Anywayz, once I got over the fact that the prof had a major lisp I enjoyed the class quite a bit and learned a good amount of stuff. I give this class a B.

Is 3800 Practicum in Social Science Professor Patrick Shorb

Ok so this is a fancy title that means I was a TA for credit. This was actually my 3rd time being a TA and my 5th offer to be one. I always like being a TA, it is a group of kids that has to sit and listen to me while their grade depends on it(well not that much).This was a history class so we had some interesting discussions, and our TA meetings with Patrick were always interesting. I'm really surprised that so many profs offered me an opportunity to TA through out my time here at UMM. I skipped quite a few of the lectures for this class in favor of sleeping. Yes, I am a slacker. I give this class a B.

Poli 3101 Political Science Analysis Professor Greg Thorson

This class means that I took every Greg Thorson class that existed in my 4 yrs at UMM. What can I say other than the man is brilliant and I wanted to soak up as much of his wisdom and knowledge that I could. This class was very different from what I expected. We spent most of the semester learning about good scientific procedures and that sort of thing. Then we moved on to data analysis which was actually quite a bit of fun. I wish I had the opportunity to take this class last year, because the skills I learned from this class would have allowed me to present a much better senior seminar.(Not that I really care about the whole senior sem thing but it would have been better had I taken this class first). This class was a lot of fun and Greg is a terrific prof who I will miss quite a bit. Greg is someone who believed in me no matter what and who always seemed to boost my ego when I talked to him, always nice to have someone you respect that really believes you are worth something. I give this class an A+.

Th 2201 Oral Interpretation Professor Kimberly Glover

This class worried me. I am not an art person I can't sing, draw, write creatively,mold clay, dance or take pictures. The only thing I can do passably is speak and I don't even do that well. So naturally for an art performance credit this is what I took.I ended up enjoying this class. The prof was really cool and seemed to really enjoy my performances. Apparently me playing female parts and doing female voices and actions is hilarious. I was surprised by the number of positive comments I got from my classmates on my performances. Kim really made this class a lot of fun and kept the atmosphere really laid back and fun. I ended up enjoying this class a lot more than I thought I would. I give this class an A.

So that's it folks that pretty much sums up my experience here at UMM, now all I have to do is show up on Saturday and get my diploma. Please let it be a short ceremony. Stay tuned for tomorrow's post which will be my goodbyes and notes to all of you. I will warn you in advance that certain parts might be a little sappy but I think some of these things need to be said before I leave since I don't know when I am gonna get to see some of you again. I love you all. Peace and much love.

-Jake