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Well, I think the most valuable part about it
is that you get to interact with a professor
that’s in a way that’s unlike a written
evaluation that we always have to do
at the end of the quarter.
It shows that, like, a professor
actually cares, you know.
I mean like when you’re writing an
impersonal evaluation of a professor’s,
you know, teaching style, who knows if
he actually reads it or she actually reads it
and cares about what’s your evaluation.
But when you’re face to face and you have to,
you know, in some cases be bold about
what you feel about their class and they
have to be bold back with you and say,
“Well, you know, that’s a valuable point,
but I’m not going to change it, you know,
because I feel like it’s important to my class
and it’s my class,’ basically.
And to know that, as he was talking about
the impact that it’s had through the faculty,
and knowing that I was semi involved in
working in a way that changed his style
and then, consequently, changing other
teachers’ or professors’ styles, is valuable
because then all their psych students get
to enjoy the same sort of process that I
went through in more of an indirect way.
I know one comment that the students made
that was kind of interesting was that this was
a lot more work than a lot of the other 5 credit
classes that they were taking—it was maybe
8 credits worth of work—but it was never said
in a way that the students were complaining
because there was a logic to each step of it
and, you know, there was a big picture.
And I think that’s important and maybe
a little bit more difficult with a blocked
syllabus, but to lay out the big picture.
I don’t think students cared day-to-day to
know where they’re going, but they do like to
have the major deadlines and they do like to
see that there’s some flow, there’s some continuity.
And so, again, I would be willing to bet that
half the class said, “My god, this is a lot of
work, but it’s fun in a twisted kind of way,”
because the parts played off one another so well.
I'd totally agree with that.
It’s probably one of the hardest classes
I’ve ever taken but I learned so much,
like I’ve actually retained it, you know.
Classes that are just, you know, tests
boom, boom, boom, I'd leave it and I have
no idea, you know, what I’ve learned or
what I’ve taken from it.
But the class that interacts and has 3 or 4
different assessment methods, you know,
it gets you really in depth and really in
the material and I think that was the
most valuable part about it.