User:Michael Dutz

Introduction
Hello all, My name is Michael Dutz and I am a History Major and a Political Science minor! I am in my last semester of school at Illinois State University. I graduated from Bloomington High School (Bloomington, Illinois) in 2007 and for the first two years of my college career I went to Black Hawk College in Moline, Il. Moline is the current corporate headquarters for the John Deere. The city thrives on the company just like Bloomington-Normal is dependent on State Farm Insurance. I went to Black Hawk College to play golf. I played two years of varsity golf at Bloomington High School and was fortunate enough to recieve multiple scholarship offers to play at the collegate level. A friend of mine, Casey Pyne and I (the only two seniors left on the golf team from the class of '07, we started out with almost 40) both committed to playing golf at Black Hawk College in the same week and for the first year there we lived together. We had a good time. In my spare time in Moline I played/practiced golf, went to class and worked for Fedex for the first year and Champs Sports the second year.

ISU
I always wanted to attend Illinois State. I was born in Bloomington and it has always been a hometown school. My grandparents went to Illinois State and it has always been part of my life. High level competative golf faded away at Black Hawk because of the intense amount of work and time it consumed. I did not have the time to practice 20 hours a week, work 20-30 hours a week and take 15 credit hours. I managed to do it for two years but that was enough for me. Since I was not continuning my golf career the decision of where my next school would be was a no brainer. When at BHC I was an accounting major. I fell in love with accounting in High School, my high school golf coach was the head of the business department at BHS and I always enjoyed taking his classes. When I came to Illinois State I did not have all the requirements to be admitted into the school of business and there was going to be a lot of hoops I would have to jump through in order to graduate in a timely matter and I weighed my options and went with something that I liked and I could graduate in 2.5 years. I always enjoyed History classes and I believe that it is easier to learn what happened in the past than it is to keep up with what is going on currently. In politics classes I sometimes feel ignorant because I do not know who some of these governors are or who the congressman is for Rhode Island (it might be a she actually?), I don't know a lot about current day politics but I do know a lot about politics in 1860 at the federal level. I choose political science as my minor because I think government is fascinating and if I go to law school it would probably be the most helpful minor for me.

The Future
I haven't really made a decision of what I want to do in the future. My possibilies are endless, I'll be freshly 23 years old when I graduate, no student loans to pay back (credit card debt is a different story) and most importantly I will have a degree from a prestigous university. I believe my current plan is to prep for the LSAT and attend law school but that plan is not set in stone. It may change two or three times over the semester, but I am open to anything!