Finally I finished one assignment. It sure took long to launch Microsoft Word and start typing the answers. I hate having to type and type things I consider to be quite “common sense”. I finished it quite quickly surprisingly, I was expecting myself to take much longer.
Lessons at school are kinda ending already. Made me a little happier, a little worried too. It only means examinations are coming and I am not good in examinations somehow.
School’s been interesting. I enrolled into university into a course I pretty much expect myself to be alone. I didn’t know anybody who would join the university and didn’t expect to make friends much either. Before course commencement, I was still feeling pretty down that life’s going to be boring and routine.
Even when school starts, things didn’t start off too well also. I had a hard time grasping business and mathematics concept. Things are starting to get better and discussions with my clique helped a lot. I start having this feeling that discussions would eventually be stopped. Seems like not much people is really contributing to discussions.
Discussions require contribution and sometimes the contribution level falls so low that it is like a kindergarten teacher leading a class of 4. I watch the discussions die off a couple of times making no attempt to save it. Sometimes I tried to, sometimes I just don’t. Some things I note are:
- If one person is teaching and receives little to no feedback during a discussions, he or she quits contributing. One person talking by himself or herself for fifteen minutes is not a good discussion.
- Some people try to continue the discussion by asking more question. That typically fails after a while…
- There are times contributions are disruptive. When one person understand the discussion and the other person doesn’t, the discussion doesn’t go on. Instead it gets stuck at one point where explanations just keep getting repeated and I had to visit the water cooler twice to excuse myself to keep awake.
- Unproductive discussion often result when any one of the participants is feeling sleepy or joining in late. Feel sleepy then quit the discussion and go somewhere else, better than killing the discussion by asking for repeats.
- Might be helpful for discussions to have a participant that would take up a moderator role.
Anyway… I doubt that our discussions would continue due to certain issues. I just have a feeling that it probably won’t happen again.
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