Here are 10 anonymous comments from students about the MCS*2020 course and assignments. We had audience members read these comments during our presentation at WILU 2007 (York University. For more comments see this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/mjdelia/student-comment-reel

1. Anonymous student comments from
MCS*2020: Information Management
Winter 2007 semester

2. “One day when MJ sourced something incorrectly and I went
to look for the article I was like I can’t find the article, what’s
going on? I was so frustrated and then he was like, yeah, my
mistake and I was like that’s why it’s so important to
reference because when someone wants to find your article
and they can’t find it, you go crazy. It’s like where is it? It’s
supposed to be here. Am I crazy? What’s going on here?
And if you can’t find the article, well then how legitimate is
this?”

3. “I liked all the different things he brought into the course, like
he would bring in newspaper articles and then he’d do
searches on the database and the mapping. It was just
expanding how many different areas you can get information
from.”

4. “They have to show passion and trust and enthusiasm in
what they’re talking about. Because a professor gets up
there and they’re talking monotone about something that
they went to school for 8 years for, I’m not going to believe
you.”

5. “I’m not a master or anything at finding research and I
definitely have room for improvement, but I didn’t think I
needed a whole semester on how to do that, so it sounded
really boring.”

6. “I’m O.K. with public speaking but I had to pretty much think
on my feet and I was so nervous at first but I was surprised
at how much I could think logically in my head with minutes
to prepare and I didn’t even have a problem with the
question-answer period. I felt like if I understood my
information beforehand that I could handle it well enough. It
makes you feel more confident about yourself.”

7. “It kind of gave you sense of what businesses do and what
problems they encounter and how hard the decisions are.
It’s not as easy as it might seem. You might think it seems
easy but once you see it from the business perspective it
seems a lot more complicated.

8. “I just appreciate that we’re given the opportunity, but it’s
also interesting too cause I found it was a stretch for me to
have to do that and I hadn’t had to do that before, so—and
it’s funny because my roommate—I always got her to
proofread my little one-page responses and she would
proofread them and at the beginning they were terrible and
towards the end it was just a few grammar things.”

9. “I find I’m more conscious when I’m sending an email to
someone and I’m a little bit more aware of the language that
I’m using and just that kind of – and obviously that’s going to
be a big part of any job regardless—so for me that has been
a huge part.”

10. “I would go and look and I would start to find links and I
would kind of follow it that way which is from curiosity, which
is what I did when we did research for our paper for the
debate. I would just follow links from what he had given us till
I found something that was relevant and interesting.”

11. “MJ was like, working in the library, this is how you
reference, this is what I do every day, this is how you do a
presentation, cause this is what I do every day, whereas like
a lot of professors are really involved with academics as
opposed to the students.”