My grades have started to come in. I want to start up a website to aggregate student comments about classes and instructors, anonymously. As if that wouldn’t be challenge enough on my limited time budget, there’s the problemof providing authentication along with anonymity. Ugh.
| class | grade | comments |
|---|---|---|
| Empirical Analysis | A | Ah stats. relief. I may well TA this course next year. I was afraid my overconfident neglect might have shot my grade to hell and back (by which I mean earned me an A- or maybe even a B+) |
| Policy Analysis | A- | I didn’t feel like I learned alot that can be explained from this course. The purported goal was to teach us how to structure problems, and provide solutions. We did this maybe twice, and recieved our gospel-style heart-felt-testimonial instruction. It was mildly entertaining, but not terribly educational. Need more practice. Also, I feel like I failed to carry my weight in the groupwork. |
| Stakeholder ID | A- | This one I learned a little bit more on. What I feel a learned from it was a style of problem solving, and a guiding philosophy for such |
| Designing Participation processes | B | I feel like this was my big failure of the semester, coursewise. (remember, a B on the masters program grading curve is equivalent to a C- outside grade inflation land). I also feel like the course failed me. It didn’t help on the first day when she said “Engineers will have a great deal of trouble with the content of this course.” (or something very like that, with a smile). I like her plenty. But I never really got a firm grasp on what we were supposed to be learning. My final paper was dashed off in a frenzy. My classroom participation got an A, my first paper an A-, and my final paper, a B-, but by that point, I was basically beyond caring. |
| Developing Your Public Service Career | I | The instructor lost my first assignment, though she got the final two. It did force me (kicking and screaming) to start thinking about what I wanted to do with this piece of paper I’m getting. Now, hopefully, I will continue down the same road |
| Public Management & Leadership | none yet | I thought this course was very interesting. It gave me the most feedback on my writing. It introduced me to many interesting ideas. I’d like to go through and write an entry summarizing lessons I learned in this class alone. I don’t know how I did in this course. I know she thought my classroom participation was great, and my actual writing … needed some work. She even said that I seemed to show more depth of examination in my off the cuff classroom commentary than in my papers. Supposed to have gotten grades for the class yesterday, but tardiness on this one is nothing new. =) I think the presentation was well received. I do kinda feel like I bowed out of the tough stuff on the presentation. |
| Economics for Public Affairs I | none yet | I’m suffering hyperconfidence anxiety on this one too. Though I don’t know if she ever got my CAFE paper. |
In summary, things to work on: taking initiative & writing. May help if I don’t take a ridiculous overload of units next semester. Just maybe. =)
WOW. That’s quite the class load!
Congrats on the grades…
I was thinking about doing something like that as well. I don’t think the authentication would be all that tricky, but I guess that depends on your implementation. what language would you use? just curious. 🙂