sorry about the previous posting; that url gets you nowhere. i recently realized it when i typed www.tc.umn.edu/~mgksa, which gave me a not-found-url message. i used to be an officer(?) of mkgsa for a while in the past but somehow i got confused, mainly because ksa is kind of universal abbrev. for korean student association, i guess. mkgsa stands for minnesota korean graduate student association, which makes a lot better sense than minnesta graduate korean student association,,,, you can find a message board there, i mean www.tc.umn.edu/~mkgsa, a lot of korean minnesotans frequent there and most of them are kind enough to answer your questions,,,,, but beware, you'd better not completely accept everybody's opinion; very naturally, everybody's point of view is biased, including mine! watch the movie fargo, if you want to get a glimpse of minnesota life ^^ BTW timberwolves are doing fine!