martes, 17 de noviembre de 2009

Self Evaluation of my Academic Year


It’s not the right time to evaluate my academic year, because classes aren’t over yet,  there’re lot of tests to take, papers to do and investigations to finish. But if I had to evaluate the whole academic year and my development on it, I think I must incorporate some crucial aspects. In the next lines I’ll talk about the subjects I had, the good and the bad ones, the distractions and obstacles I had to face and how I performed at the end, obviously, considering  the marks I have already and the projection of how I’m going to finish the academic year, at the final-final day of classes. 

The worst subjects I had were Statistics II and Quantitative Methods, contradictorily, I really like these themes, but teachers were very bad: they were boring, bitter persons and they didn’t explain very well. The subjects that didn’t make any difference where Social Psychology, Sociological Theory II and Epistemology, I didn’t like them very much and my marks in those subjects are quiet acceptable.  Economy I and II where two subjects very similar, because II it’s a strict continuation of I. Both were very difficult, but interesting, and luckily, in the first term, I had regular marks. I need one more mark in the second term, but I’m doing good.

And in the good subjects, I think first of all is Social Theory I. In this subject I learnt a lot! The teacher was very structured, clear and nice, and the themes were very interesting and important to my career –what can be more important than the classical authors?-. In second place, Social History of Chile. The better thing of this subject is the Teacher. Gabriel Salazar is an eminency in social history, and having him as a teacher it’s a whole experience. And in third place, Statistics III. I’m having this subject nowadays and I only have one mark. It’s a very difficult subject, but it’s very helpful to the future and I find it very interesting as well. It’s one of the most difficult subjects of the whole career, in the first test, I had a red mark, as most of my classmates. We’re waiting for the next test to revert this situation, we can’t fail the subject!

I can't no-talk about English. Sincerely, I took this class as an obligation. I thought that my English level was good enough to survive, so I didn’t think it was necessary improving it. But if someday I want to study in another country, I’ll have to have a decent level of English and the legitimate permission to do it from the University, with these courses and the obligatory tests. But in the last time I realized that this it’s really a necessary step to do that. School doesn’t give all the tools we need. And how can I miss the opportunity to say that the classes weren’t boring as I thought, the teacher is very nice, funny and energetic. 

This year I’ve had a lot of distractions, but one is more significant. Love have consumed an important part of my time, so I don’t do very much besides studies and my relationship. Sometimes this situation made me lose time for studying or working with my classmates, but sometimes it’s very helpful too, my boyfriend graduates from Sociology a little time ago, so he have helped me to understand contents of some subjects and he have helped me with summaries, when I couldn’t read all the texts I had to read. So, at the end, I think in spite of this distraction and the hard subjects, I’ve done very well, my marks are very acceptable and I can say I learnt a lot this year. I think I’m prepared for the next level, for sure.



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