Self Reflection: Freshman Seminar 2010

This semester's freshman seminar class was definitely nothing compared to what I expected. Although I greatly enjoyed the lecture series and the various presenters, I was unable to truly enjoy the class due to various absents due to sickness and injury. It was also difficult trying to be placed in a group because I had missed the first day of class to attend to matters with the courts system. I didn't get my group for several weeks later and had issues accessing the blogs and Blackboard because it was stating that I wasn't registered for the class. I personally thought that the class would help us to learn how to get around and survive for our extended stay here at Howard. As a sophomore political science major, I still know various freshman who don't know how to calculate their GPAs. I feel as though maybe a compromise between the way that the freshman seminar classes were run last year and this year would be truly beneficial to the students. I think both the lecture and classroom style would be an interesting way to run the class, but I also understand that with the size of the classes it is not always problematic to run a course of this size in a classroom that can fit 25 students at max. Overall, I truly did enjoy the class and loved the wealth of knowledge acquired during the lecture series and am truly glad that the auditorium style was large enough that I did not have to try and override into it and be turned away once again due to constrained seating.