Brigham Young University-Idaho

I had a religion professor, Professor Woodward, at BYU-Idaho. He was incredible. I really loved his class, Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel. I feel like that was the class that I've learned most in any time in my, you know, time in school. I loved it and it was so spiritual and it took a lot of work. It was a hard class, but he had us write this big page at the end of, this big paper at the end of the semester, and I really enjoyed it because I enjoyed what I learned so much. So it made, he changed the class so it was difficult and it was like, instead of it being a burden, I really wanted to because of his teaching style and how good of a teacher he was.

If you ever get the pleasure of taking a class from Janelle Greenwood or Melissa Russell, you are going to be in great hands. You'll learn so much from them academically but also personally as well.

If you really want to take a really good class of corporate finance, you need to take the class with Breuer Page. He teaches in a wonderful way, you know, he makes you understand the concepts, very sometimes complex processes in a very simple way, where you can grasp the ideas of how actually corporate finance is and how it works, you know, how to understand what makes the cash flow or the money flow into any corporation with, you know, by working in teams and especially by his activities. The way he teaches and the curriculum that he prepares is just an amazing way that I consider it's just changed my life on what do I want to do as a career, you know, since I studied financial economics. I think his class is just a master class for all those who want to be in corporate finance.

My favorite professors were Steve Kugath in the Recreation Management Department as well as Janelle Greenwood in the Recreation Management Department. Top-notch.

I have had a really good experience with my religion professors since I've been here at BYU-Idaho. One in particular sticks out, Brother Butterfield. I took internal families from him, and he teaches a couple other classes as well, and I really, really enjoyed it. He was very good at teaching people to their level, he was good at teaching to needs, and he was really good at really helping to understand how simple a lot of the deeper things in the gospel are. He was a very, very good teacher. His assignments classes were easy to do. His assignments were never too hard, but we did learn a lot in that class too, and I really enjoyed having him as a professor.

There are a lot of amazing teachers, I think, for starters, for physics 105. I highly suggest brother Hanson, Evan Hanson. He is amazing. He is very personable. He listens to everyone's questions. He teaches in a very simplified way. He does lots of fun activities that just make it easier for the visual learner like me. He's always willing to help. I think that's something I find super, super cool about him is I could text him on a Saturday with his personal number and be like, hey, I don't understand my homework. And he'll jump on a FaceTime or a Zoom call with me right then and help me work through my problems. And it was super, super nice and convenient. So I definitely suggest him for physics 105.

Sister Pardo is one of the theater faculty at BYU-Idaho, and she's just really great at getting to know each of her students personally, and finding out what's going on, and really working with them to make sure that they do well.

Professor Matthew Woolery in the psychology department. He is out there, but he's got some pretty cool ideas that I was really fascinated with. He just has a different perspective about psychology. In the political science department, I really loved brother Neil Carter. Man, that guy, he, he's a genius. There's a lot that I learned from him. And then my, my last favorite professor is brother Flora in the humanities department. He was really great. And I've seen him on and off for the last decade or so, but he, he just opened my mind to that classical life of music and art and film.

I'd say one of my more favorite professors is brother Taylor, brother Dan Taylor. He is awesome. He's hilarious. It's like whenever he points out something he kind of does like this weird finger thing. I don't know, he's just really funny. He's brutally honest, kind of like a, you could tell that he was probably one of the more nerdy kids when growing up, but he really knows his stuff. He's really kind and I just thought he was hilarious and I was changing my major that semester and I was having some issues figuring out what I want to do. Then I met him in his office and he was very helpful, similar to the right people, and just super kind and considerate as well.

For math, my favorite professors were Brother Sienkiewicz and also Brother Woodruff. They were very merciful, very awesome, and they really takes care of you. They know what it's like to be a student. I took an elective intro to film art and analysis. Brother Oliphant, awesome guy, he was amazing. Favorite religion, I don't think Brother Barron is there anymore, but Brother Rowe, R-O-W-E, he was pretty fun. He was awesome. He was my favorite. I took like three or four classes from him.

If you want to take an anatomy class, my favorite professor was Brother Fisher. I think his first name's John, so John Fisher. I really liked him. I feel like there's so many good professors in anatomy. Like if you go into an application, I forget the application name, but they're, basically all the professors there at BYU-Idaho are really good. The reason why I like Brother Fisher is because he took his time in teaching step-by-step all the anatomy terms, and he would go out of his way. Like he would say, hey, on Tuesdays or on this day, I'm going to be in my office, so please come. And so a whole bunch of students would go, and he would take time to answer each and one of our questions. So he really, truly cares about the student.

Kendall Grant, he is a writing professor, but you don't even feel like you're writing for a class. He's a great, great, great, great professor. You'll have so much fun, you'll learn a lot about yourself and others, and I've created lifelong friends through that class.

If you can take a class by Johan Dalton, history and systems of psychology is one that would be available to anyone. He is a hoot and a half, he's French and just silly and um but he also like really wants you to learn and he's really good at kind of taking perspectives of like different worldviews over time um and it's kind of funny because you're like wait what do you actually believe because he's so good at defending all of these and you can talk to him after class about those kind of things but he's also just really empathetic and really cares about your success and um also if he recommends another professor he recommended Matthew Woolery who has since left um and I wish people could take his classes as well um because those were life-changing too um but yeah take whoever he suggests as well.

If you're looking to take a physics course, I highly suggest Brother Piper. He is a very lax professor, but he likes to help out where he can. If you want to have a laugh, he is definitely the professor that you would like.

The professor I had in preparation for marriage, Brother Ratcliffe. He's an amazing professor. Some of the things that he has taught me in that course has been really, really helpful. And to this day, I have my own copy of the book that I read in that course by Dr. John Van Epp titled How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk. And that book is full of amazing, amazing stuff.

I had the opportunity to take a lot of classes from Brother Rerek. He's in the Home and Family Department. He is amazing, makes the class so fun, so well qualified for this position, and I have kept up with him these last three years that I've been graduated, and I highly recommend every single one of his classes. He does a great job.

I took most of my religion courses with Brother Kyle Black. Great guy, sense of humor. Sometimes he'll bring out something that's, you know, no longer discussed in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doctrine. But overall, a great view of doctrine in general, of our faith in general, and very devoted to being as good a person as he can be. And yeah, he does have a sense of humor. He does have a snappy mouth sometimes, in case he's watching this. Love you, Brother Black. And yeah, so there you go.

As far as favorite professors are concerned, your job is to make sure that the most favorite one is the Lord Jesus Christ. If there's any other ones of a mortal realm, then take those aspects and then apply it to the master teacher.

Another favorite professor that I had, his name is Jared Eberhard. He teaches operations at BYU-Idaho. Fantastic guy. I actually took IBC from him. IBC is just Integrated Business Corps. And BYUI students, you've probably seen those students that sell stuff on campus. That was what I did. And Jared Eberhard was my teacher for that. Fantastic guy. Very good with business. Has a lot of experience. He mainly focuses on operations. So if you're thinking of doing operations management, take a class from him. Fantastic guy. I cannot recommend him more.

I was a theater studies performance major and I spent most of my time in the Snow Building. By far my favorite professor was Trevor Hill. He gave me chances that I otherwise wouldn't have had, especially involving my acting. And he is just the most considerate and kind person. He doesn't treat you just like another student, he treats you like a person, which is so nice. Everyone in the theater department when I was there was pretty nice. Then again, I spent all my time there and I really got to know them over the four years, but Trevor Hill, he is a standout guy.

All of the professors for the psychology degree, but my favorite one was professor Woolery. Sadly, he no longer teaches there anymore, but he taught a really fantastic personality class.

I was a music major, specifically voice, and I love Randall Kempton. He was my all-time favorite. He is the director of the Collegiate Choir, which I was in for a few semesters. It took me a few semesters to get into it, but I got to be in it for a few semesters. We got to do choir tour, and I just love being in his choir. We take a lot of time to get to know each other as a choir. We have a choir retreat, they call it, and we get to just get to know each other as a choir and spend time. We got to go on choir tour after I graduated, and that was really fun, but we also take time to talk about how the songs that we're singing relate to the spirit and relate to our lives and how we can share the spirit through that music, and I just think it's a really wonderful environment. We all become a family, and it's just a really, really great choir, so I highly recommend, if you like to sing at all, audition for any of the choirs, but try to get into Collegiate Choir because it's definitely worth it. Brother Kempton is amazing.

So I never had this professor as a teacher, but I did get to TA for him and work with him in the math study center. Brother O'Shaughnessy is incredible. If you struggle with math, he's going to make it so that you want to do math again. He's so excited about it and has such a high energy. Even with his early morning 7 45 a.m classes, people were engaged and ready to learn and got more excited with doing math.

One of my favorite professors at BYU-Idaho was my choir instructor. Her name was Sister Smith, and the number one thing that she always talked about was the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. And she was very detail-oriented, and yet she did it in such an encouraging way, and yet she didn't lower her standards. She taught that when we truly strive for perfection, when we're unified, we have this idea of not settling, and we focus on a singular goal. And it uplifts everybody when we do that, and we feel the spirit of what we're doing more when we're striving for the highest standard possible. And that's always been a lesson that I've taken with me.

So one of my favorite professors when I was at BYU-Idaho, his name is Garrett Saunders. He taught intermediate statistics. I think the abbreviation is math 321 or stats 321. He pushed myself and it was hard, but it wasn't impossible. There's one of the classes where after the semester I felt like I learned something and actually retained information. And he's a great individual and if you follow his syllabus and class structure, then you'll do great in the class.

One of my favorite professors is Michael Hales. He teaches business classes and I absolutely loved the way that he taught. He teaches with a lot of personality and he makes class very engaging and entertaining and it's all applicable. Everything you do is very very applicable to real life situations and he's just so happy and you can tell that he really really loves his job and so it makes class a lot of fun.

I went to Ricks College back in 82, 83, and I had an economics professor named Dick Maas who really sparked my interest in learning about economics in business. He had been the corporate economist for Motorola, so had a ton of real-world experience and was phenomenal at taking economic principles and tying them to everyday decision-making. And I still use some of the thoughts, the concepts, the thinking that changed for me during that period of time still influences the business and personal financial decisions that I make to this day.