Whew! It’s been a long week already, but I am steadily seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for this school year getting bigger and bigger…I can’t wait until the summer break starts in a few weeks.
Since yesterday at around noon, I am officially finished with my second class of the quarter, our 3-unit Non-Markets strategy. We had a take home exam due at 5pm and, because I was so anxious to be finished with that joint, I stayed up late on Tuesday and then got up early yesterday to get it knocked out as early as possible. This class is supposed to teach us strategies to deal with non-market issues in business (boycotts, interest groups, regulations, legislators, etc.) and I know I’ve been super positive on all of my classes so far, but this is one that I really did not like from the start. The problem wasn’t the professor (he actually did a great job of teaching it)…I saw the material as boring and I could never really make myself get engaged in the classroom discussions. With every case that we did, I thought the discussions would have been great if we would have been able to discuss ethics, but we were restircted to discussing theories and frameworks that were so abstract to me that I couldn’t stop my mind from wandering in each class session. After that exam, I don’t think I’ll end up doing well in my final grade, but I’m just happy that I’m finished with it.
Now that Non-Markets is done, my next big challenge is my Human Resources class, for which I still have a final project presentation and paper to do. We have to present the final project next Tuesday and then the paper is due the following week. A lot of groups have been cranking on their projects all quarter long, but my group has been all over the place and we are just now getting things rolling. I think we’ll be fine in getting everything done, but it’s going to be a long weekend trying to get the presentation pulled together in time to do our thing in class next week. In addition to that presentation, I’ve got to pull together my 5-page portion of a 15-page paper for my Politics of Education class, as well. That’s going to be a tough one because I’m writing the final recommendations, which is basically the heart of what we’ll be graded on.
I’m really starting to realize how much I’ve grown over the course of this year…In the Fall quarter, I would have been all stressed out about it, but now I’m surprisingly excited because of how much I’m learning over the course of my time here. I can’t believe that I’m at the end of my first year already.
Since yesterday at around noon, I am officially finished with my second class of the quarter, our 3-unit Non-Markets strategy. We had a take home exam due at 5pm and, because I was so anxious to be finished with that joint, I stayed up late on Tuesday and then got up early yesterday to get it knocked out as early as possible. This class is supposed to teach us strategies to deal with non-market issues in business (boycotts, interest groups, regulations, legislators, etc.) and I know I’ve been super positive on all of my classes so far, but this is one that I really did not like from the start. The problem wasn’t the professor (he actually did a great job of teaching it)…I saw the material as boring and I could never really make myself get engaged in the classroom discussions. With every case that we did, I thought the discussions would have been great if we would have been able to discuss ethics, but we were restircted to discussing theories and frameworks that were so abstract to me that I couldn’t stop my mind from wandering in each class session. After that exam, I don’t think I’ll end up doing well in my final grade, but I’m just happy that I’m finished with it.
Now that Non-Markets is done, my next big challenge is my Human Resources class, for which I still have a final project presentation and paper to do. We have to present the final project next Tuesday and then the paper is due the following week. A lot of groups have been cranking on their projects all quarter long, but my group has been all over the place and we are just now getting things rolling. I think we’ll be fine in getting everything done, but it’s going to be a long weekend trying to get the presentation pulled together in time to do our thing in class next week. In addition to that presentation, I’ve got to pull together my 5-page portion of a 15-page paper for my Politics of Education class, as well. That’s going to be a tough one because I’m writing the final recommendations, which is basically the heart of what we’ll be graded on.
I’m really starting to realize how much I’ve grown over the course of this year…In the Fall quarter, I would have been all stressed out about it, but now I’m surprisingly excited because of how much I’m learning over the course of my time here. I can’t believe that I’m at the end of my first year already.
do you have an option to suggest improvements in the way a course is handled ?
I don’t know if there is any way to change the way the course is handled. I talked to one of the administrators and suggested that they merge the class with our no-credit pre-term Ethics class, but I doubt that’ll happen. I think the non-markets class has been taught like this for so long that it’ll never change.
that is interesting information…although i understand the justification…
maybe people need a huge crowd of people to shout before they listen.
a solitary opinion might be too difficult to address( consider the case when each one of your classmates has a different opinion – which, i think, is quite possible)