Recapping 2008 (both generally and 2008WTerm 1)
- I lost about 10 pounds total (healthy weight loss Lindsay/Eastwood!)
- I came out of Term1 with exactly as they’ve told us in orientation/recruitment, an average that is almost 20% lower than what you got in high school. A bit of disappointment but only motivation to push even harder.
- I met people, not a lot but I did meet people in University (it’s easier than it seems).
- I found out which studying spots in UBC work for me and which don’t (Barber is a great one; but it’s often way too crowded. TIP: Try Woodward if you don’t mind where it is; I hear it’s awesome).
- I found that Sociology was more interesting/I felt like I knew more about it than I thought I would. That’s part of the problem in my course grade so far (it’s a 6 credit course)
- For the first time, I felt fear that I was going to fail a course/not stay in my faculty (the first mark I received was much lower than I expected and also my lowest mark).
- I didn’t do as many extra-curricular activities as I did in high school, but I did get into Sauder Squad 🙂
- I submitted a Business Plan for Enterprize, an entrepreneurial competition/conference hosted by the Commerce Undergraduate Society at the Sauder School of Business @ UBC, with some friends. If you want to go to the conference, it’s in Feburary and tickets are still for sale!
- I didn’t make the best use of my time, but overall I did have a lot of fun sometimes with friends and such.
I was going to do a class review, but Phoebe and I (SURPRISINGLY!) have similar classes so she went over most of them/what I was going to say. I will add tidbits, so do look at Phoebe’s blog!
COMM 292 – Organzational Behaviour
Angela Kelleher
Her credentials were impressive. She has worked at McKinsley and done a bunch of other things. She knew her stuff well and kept trying to get us involved in what would make her class work better. My overall mark was a disappointment because I expected to do much better in this course (the highest exam marks I got from all my courses) but the group project probably brought me down. Otherwise, this course made me feel like I was actually learning something more related to what I’m going into/considering (consulting/mentoring).
MATH 104 – Calculus with Commerce Application
Weiyong He
He was probably close to, if not, my favourite teacher all term. He was helpful and really funny. I could have/should have done way better in his class. I think we got scaled down because our midterm marks were super duper high but I have no way of proving that. He really does know his material but sometimes does make mistakes. But everyone does once in awhile basically!
PSYC 100 – Intro to Psychology
Peter Graf
I was brutally honest in my prof evaluation. I did not learn that much in this class. The prof was passionate about the subject/seemed very knowledgeable but I didn’t find that I could engage in his class very well. There was one class where I commented thoroughly on his topic of the day and that’s the only class I felt fairly productive in (other classes I would make notes on the class to make up for the lack of learning I was feeling in that class). PSYC is an applicable course nonetheless and I learned a lot about my sleeping habits/my friends and what we should do in order to change it for the better 🙂
SOCI 100 – Intro to Sociology
Guppy, Corrigall-Brown, Lang
3 profs. 3 different but at the same time, the same, perspectives. They rotated lectures. This class was really interesting in that the focus was how most things in our lives are socially constructed and how sometimes we forget the origin of how things are created etc. At the beginning of the term I didn’t feel like I would enjoy this course but the content is actually not too bad. It was also the first university paper I wrote while I was in university and did decently well on it. If you get a chance to be taught by these profs and have an interest in sociology, i’d highly recommend this course.
ECON 101- Principles of Microeconomics
Lemche
He comes to class “prepared” because all his material has been kept from his past classes (thus I was able to get resources from some older students I know). I liked economics and felt that I could understand it pretty well, but he was not particularly helpful in causing this reaction from me. I learned mostly from self-study and felt that his exams were just testing to see if I had done my self-study.
COMM 299 – Public Speaking
CJ Liu
It was really fun listening to speeches. Preparing speeches wasn’t too bad either. He gave a lot of positive feedback and showed great interest in our class/the content of our speeches. Overall a very enjoyable class if you want one that doesn’t require too much of your time and really tests a skill you would want to develop in the “real world”
2009 Resolutions to come! Happy New Year everyone!