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I went to my Child Psychology lecture on Monday at Foellinger Auditorium expecting to get nothing out of it. I mean, every single psych class starts off the same; you learn about the scientific method, the difference between reliability and validity and cause and correlation. Every single time. But as my professor was proving me right, I came across a realization. Foellinger Auditorium just might be one of my favorite places on campus. And that’s weird.

I mean, Foellinger is where I’ve taken some of the most impersonal and uninspiring classes I’ve ever had to sit through. Being a student in one of the 1,936 seats of the auditorium is like watching a Baptist sermon on Sunday morning television; you’re so far removed from the speaker onstage that it’s hard not to imagine the speaker talking to himself.

But while I might have gotten nothing out of my Soc 100 lecture in the century old building, Jim James did give an awesome performance there my Freshman year. That was the best My Morning Jacket concert I’ve ever been to (I still don’t know if James was kidding when he kept referring to the venue as “Folger’s Ampitheater”).

And yeah, while I’ve fallen asleep during many of my marketing lectures there, it was an experience watching John Stiratt and Pat Sansone of Wilco sound check for the Autumn Defense show in the very same room a couple years ago.

It seems that for every monotonous lecture I have at Foellinger comes an inversely enjoyable forum or performance in the evening. With sociology came My Morning Jacket, with history came the challenging forum of “Racism Power and Privlege in Concern for Chief Illiniwek” and with business administration came Broken Social Scene,.

And finally, this weekend, to justify my sixth time learning the difference between a positive and negative correlation at my Child Psych lecture, Jeff Tweedy will return to the very same stage to again imagine a giant steering the Auditorium with the giant wheel suspended from the ceiling. While we at buzz are still working on getting reviews up online on Psych 216 lectures, we can promise a review of the Tweedy performance soon after the show this weekend. Check it out if you can’t make it, and in the meantime visit to the Canopy Club for a great bill of local acts on Saturday to get your mind off of the sold out show at Foellinger.