the feedback continues
We’ve been receiving feedback from our professors about our participation in class over the last few days. Most of mine has been as expected. It’s a bit of a ballet, trying to figure out how to best participate in the case method discussions. There are a whole bunch of things to factor:
- frequency
- quality of comment
- relevance of comment
- advancing the conversation
- contributing to the learning of sectionmates
And all of this while simultaneously actively listening to the conversation, and – oh yeah – learning something.
My feedback in FRC was not so stellar. The note said it had to do more with quantity than quality, but I’m not sure. I keep track of my participation, and I think I may be asking too many questions and not making enough insightful comments. Each professor evaluates participation differently, so I just consider this a good check on my understanding of what profs are looking at which criteria, and now that I know, I can adjust.
I’m a little less concerned with the participation points than I am with whether or not I’m actually learning the material, and I did really well on the midterm exam, so I’m not too worried about the accounting concepts, I just have to master this whole 90-person-conversation thing.
I had an absolutely hilarious lunch with about eight sectionmates today. Was good to get off campus and laugh hard – haven’t laughed that hard in a while.
One more day til the weekend. TOM midterm tomorrow. Flying to Chicago tomorrow night. The show never stops…
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