Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Biology Can Be Fun???

I don't remember how much I've talked about my Biology professor at college, but I like him.  He is quite unique.    He is Super knowledgeable and smart, but I sometimes question if he knows how to teach well - something that will likely come with lots of experience.  Anyways our class set up was (with 2 classes per week for 16 weeks) 1 lab a week, 1 quiz a week and 2 lectures a week plus speeches/presentations scattered throughout the semester that each one of us had to do - mine was set to be a week ago.   He insisted that the quizzes were super easy and he even gave us 20 minutes to do them.  We even convinced him to let us have open notes and open books on the first one.   Yet after the second quiz he emailed us saying that he was dropping the first two quizzes (we all knew that we didn't do well on them - even though we studied).  In addition he said that he is dropping all quizzes and just doing 5 tests throughout the semester each on 2 chapters.  Plus he said that the final was now optional, and all our presentations/speeches were being pushed back to the last two days of class in December.  He also told us that our new schedule would be 1 lab and 1 lecture a day.   And to help us with our note taking (to help time go quicker too during lectures) he started putting the notes up online ahead of time AND required us to bring in a copy with us each day for each lecture.  

Now, our test was said to be on Wednesday (today) and he told us that he would even go over the study guide with us before the test.  So we expected that he would go over it on Monday (classes are Monday and Wednesday evenings).  Except on Monday he told us that he would go over the study guide with us on Wednesday, the test then will be posted Online instead of in class and it's due by midnight Thursday.  In addition to it being online, meaning open notes and open books, there is no time limit for taking the test (except the due time) and he will give us up to 2 tries at the test!!!!    I like this guy!    

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