We’re halfway there

It was amazing to see the campus awaken from its winter slumber. Students were outside, lying around on benches or in the shadow of trees, studying. Some were playing soccer or the stereotypical college Frisbee. The whole campus finally seemed to be just like the information pamphlets by our university promised us before the freezing temperatures, enhanced by the wind from Lake Michigan came and killed our last hopes. All of this seemed even better when our university started getting for our “Dillo Day” – an event with several world renowned music artists coming to campus. The one day during spring quarter that lets us forget about the daily classes, readings, essays and midterms, transforming the campus into one buzzing concert.

As I’ve already mentioned, even spring quarter was proceeding at a high academic pace. This quarter I took three classes in our psychology department and one in macroeconomics. The professors were, as per usual, amazing. From the psychology classes, the class in cognitive psychology by Professor David Rapp was my favorite. He is a true expert in his field and incorporated a lot of information from ongoing research into our curriculum. I will probably be applying for a research position in his lab next year. Macroeconomics were taught by a world renowned economist, professor Lawrence Christiano. He did an amazing job of connecting real world events with macroeconomic theory and his non-traditionally written exams were forcing us to really think about the theoretical concepts that he taught us and to apply them in evaluating real world situations.

After successfully finishing all of my exams, I am now officially done with my sophomore year at Northwestern and I am looking forward to the next half of my stay in Evanston. I really hope it will be at least as exciting and challenging as the first two years were.