summury of my first semester at mssu

                                                            First Semester Summary

            Missouri Southern State University (mssu) in Joplin Missouri is where I spent my first semester of college at. It was a very interesting semester. The city of Joplin and my classes is what I will be sharing about in this summary.

            Joplin Missouri a town of 45,000 people. This is a big change for a farm boy who grew up in a town of 10,000 just four hours north.  Joplin is a very interesting city there is a mall and lots of food places, bowling, clubs, bars, golf, and tennis. With all those places to go you think Joplin would be a fun exciting town to spend your first year of college at. Well if you answered yes to that you are wrong. Even with all those places to go it gets old and it just boring old Joplin. This may just be my option but for most of the students that I talk to here say the same thing.  But in all things considered it’s still more fun the little hick town Maryville Missouri which is where I grew up.

            This semester at mssu I was in five classes for twelve hours. My first class of the week is a wellness class. This is one of my favorite classes because it is in my field and it’s interesting..  My next class is English 80. At first I was not very excited about being in that class but now I am glad I took it. It taught me more in one semester then all the high school English classes combined. My next class is UE. This was interesting class at time but yet also boring. The teacher was really good it was more just that some of the units were boring. I did learn a lot in this class but a lot of it I already knew.  I think it should be tough only for like the first month of school and you just learn about campus life. My next class is speech. This class is one of my least favorites. I don’t mind giving speeches I do well at them it’s just I didn’t like the teacher. He gave way to much homework. I only say this because he is the only speech teacher that does. We didn’t start giving speeches till right before thanksgiving break. All the other classes have give six speeches when we have just given two. My last class is a computer class. For me this is the most pointless class. In high school I had to do accounting class in a computer class while the teacher was teaching them about word and excel. I learned more by just over hearing stuff in that class then I did this whole semester in his class. I already knew how to do all the stuff most the time I was just helping my friend’s do there’s. This was an hour and fifteen minutes class and I this I was only that whole time once. Most the time I was only there for twenty minutes. I am proud of myself I didn’t miss a single class the whole semester.

            Over all I have had a fun semester at mssu. I can’t wait to go home for Christmas but I know I will be ready to come back. Next semester I will be taking 16 hrs and I will be able to play football for the first time since I got here. I can’t wait for 2011.