Tall Matt's Travels

MSSU Honors alumnus Matt Olson (AKA "Tall Matt") has a wonderful travel blog dedicated to sharing pictures and descriptions of his international adventures, including his MSSU trip to Europe in 1998.

Matt Olson is a 1999 graduate of the Honors Program with a degree in Marketing. He earned plaudits at Missouri Southern not only in the Honors Program but also with the Basketball Lions where he played center for three years. He was employed in Kansas City for over eight years with Cerner Corporation, a company which designs clinical information systems and financial applications to improve health care delivery. While in Japan doing business for the company he came upon a quotation from Mark Twain which reshaped his path. He is now spending a year "seeing the world."

Learn what motivated Matt to change his life, his comfortable life style, and enter the world of education in the world as you read his blog and look at his photos. Regard carefully the itinerary he set for himself for the following year. For those of you that have not completed the Honors International Study, you may really find meaning and interest in his posts.

Tim Shelhamer Reports from Hong Kong

Our good friend Tim Shelhamer has a long post with some very nice pictures on his blog. Here's a sample of what Tim has to tell us:

I'm taking classes all across disciplines; anthropology, government and public administration, puthongua (chinese language), environmental science, economics, too much. The work is heavy, or maybe it just seems so because I can hardly squeeze the time for schoolwork/readings/studying into the schedule packed with extracurriculars on weekdays and exloring on the weekends. I just now made the time to blog because I had a 45 minute presentation about asian international relations I've been reading for when I had spare time. My Chinese teacher is good and I'm learing, but progress is slow in chinese language. I must also mention my anthropology class called "Globalization and Culture," because it is, so far, the best class I've ever had. The professor is great and the topic is of such interest to me.

For the entire post, and the rest of Tim's photos, click here. Don't forget to say Hello in the comments section!

Sneak Preview of Jim Spena's Film "An Honors Story"

Click here to view part one of Jim Spena's film about the MSSU Honors Program, starring our own Will Lynch. Everyone involved did an amazing job, especially the maestro himself. Stay tuned for more info about the completed film when it becomes available.

Please note the star's comments about his own sexiness. I'd like to meet the guy, but I'm not sure I'd want to shake his hand.