Just pick Neutral for everything…

I hope everyone’s doing well, and I hope everyone’s filled out their course/teacher evaluation things.

(If you don’t know what those are, check your email, they probably sent you 524739 reminders.)

I just finished filling mine out this morning and felt so bad when I had to be completely honest and tell them that yes, one professor was not someone who should be teaching, and yes, BIOL140 needs some massive restructuring.

And I felt mean and like a terrible person who was whining and not being grateful for any of their work and I’m assuming some people are feeling like that too. And some people might feel it to the point that they don’t say what they really want to say in the evaluation forms.

Some people don’t even fill them out.

Guys, it does make a difference and even if they might not change something you want to change right away, they will see your suggestion and that seed will be planted.

Course evals are good things!

Not only is it a way of telling some professors that the techniques they use to teach… aren’t that awesome. It’s ALSO a chance to tell the profs you DO love, how awesome they are.

Just be honest and don’t feel too bad and don’t be mean about it.

Professors are there to help us, but they learn as much as we do as the course progresses.

The course evaluations surveys end April 9, at 11:59pm. (Tomorrow)

So, maybe fill one out and give an honest opinion.

Who knows, your survey response might change something for the better!

This Post was Helpful:
___   Strongly Disagree
___   Disagree
_x_   Neutral
___   Agree
___   Strongly Agree

…When all else fails, choose neutral….

BUT BE HONEST.

Okay okay, back to studying.

IMAGINE DAY TAKE 2

So last weekend I got to be a part of an amazing two day welcome into being … A SCIENCE MUG LEADER!

It was actually a lot more fun that I expected training to be. We played a lot of ice breakers and games that tested our knowledge of the Faculty of Science and the resources it offered to students. (Sidenote: MUG = My Undergraduate Group)

Guys, I am so unaware, and I don’t know how many of you are unaware and yeah I know it’s the second last week of school BUT BETTER LATE THEN NEVER?

We were quizzed on things like:

SPAC – Science Peer Academic Coaches, who are basically older students who are willing to help you and coach you academically 🙂 

or

Speakeasy – Which is a (1) confidential, (2) free, (3) student service. They are basically people who are there to help first years because we all know what it was like those first few months.

I can’t say I’m completely adjusted now, but I do know I feel a lot more comfortable and I’m used to the campus and it’s beauty and I don’t care what anyone has to say about the money “wasted” but THAT FOUNTAIN IS GORGEOUS.

From the get-go there was a LOT of energy. Different squads (Squad 57 REPRESENT), different people, but LOTS and LOTS of enthusiasm  It was crazy! Squads made hilarious and creative cheers and it was competitive while being all about fun all at the same time!

We learned about low to high risk ice breakers, and about intercultural learning. The amount of diversity in UBC is ridiculous! AND AWESOME.

I want to say if you’re thinking about being a MUG leader and get freaked out realizing it might be a much bigger thing than you thought,  just remember that you get an honor of being one of the first people some of the first years meet at UBC.

I know I’m looking forward to Imagine Day! 

MY MUGGIES, BE EXCITED.

…Guys can you imagine if somebody googled me after their MUG email went out and they see this and just get totally weirded out by me? …I don’t know if that’ll be a good thing or bad. I love you already muggies <3

Was I all over the place in this post?

My bad.

GUYS, THERE’S LIKE ONE WEEK OF SCHOOL LEFT!