Winter 2010

So this is my first semester in the BYU Advertising Program and I love it. It was a ridiculously extensive application process, but will worth the effort. My teachers are all awesome and all my classmates are great.

Here are my classes:
1. Comms 317: Media Research Methods (or something to that effect). The class is team-taught by Kelly and Callister and they are great professors. Callister makes me nervous with his whole "be a scholar speech," but it is inspiring and motivating at the same time.
2. Comms 300 - Media Law. One of my favorite classes...surprisingly. Professor Brown is easily one of my favorite professors I've had at BYU. Here is why:

• He tells the coolest stories (e.g. finding a dead body)
• Is crazily good at the piano. No joke. And I'm pretty sure he can play any song in the world if you ask or give him the tune
• He brought the whole class pizza and soda one night.
  
• He said, "No kids cause the school trouble, except for those Brown kids..."
  
• Referring to the above statement, our lecture was about education and speech and he told a story about how his son brought a pocketknife to class and was sent to the principle's office. And he decided to make a joke about how his kids were the trouble makers, but just made the class get really silent and feel a bit awkward for a minute until he realized what he had said, and how we had interpreted it.
  
• I believe he also said "classy strip club" once.
• He commonly uses Lady Gaga, K-Fed, Brittney Spears, and Courtney Love examples on tests and as in-class examples.
  

3. Comms 330 - Creative Concepts. This class is good, McKinnley is funny and isn't afraid to offend others (aka diss them), all in good fun of course. Some people in the class don't take criticism well. And when I say some people, I mean one in particular.
4. BusM 340 - Marketing. Eh, it's a business class. It's good to know. But I feel like a lot of it is a review from my Intro to Advertising class. He shows some pretty good video clips though. Like a documentary about social classes in America or about how Levi miserably failed when they tried to make and market suits. I just wonder who thought of the idea, and who thought it would actually be successful. I'm still baffled.
5. Rel C - LDS Marriage and Family. The class is bomb. Richardson knows what he's talking about and has a gift for teaching these gospel principles. His class is never boring because he's so animated. But despite how funny he can be, I always leave feeling spiritually uplifted, fortified, and with goals of what I need to work on in my life.

All in all, a great semester.