Taking a soils class may seem easy, because really how hard can learning about dirt be? Well, form the moment I told my father ( a third generation rancher) that I was taking a soils class he told me that I better be prepared to take the hardest class I have ever taken. Little did I know that it was an understatement. Learning about things the first few weeks, trying to keep up with the reading (100 pages per lecture) and also trying to find the correlation between lecture and lab were a struggle. But finally realizing that soil impacts the my everyday life prominently. Applying the four fundamental equations learned at the beginning of the semester and using those to see the correlation between soil and everything it is used for – from growing crops, to producing oxygen and even the effects it has on the environment – really was a turning point in my view about soils.