Keep on Blogging on any way

When the semester started and i saw that a blog assignment was a fair chunk of the grade, the first words that came into my mind were; "What a retarded idea". Now with only one more class to go i must admit i was wrong. I was very wrong.

First of all the professor was spot on when he said that it was better than having a term paper, especially for how he goes about teaching the class. This blog was an excellent way for people to say what they wanted to say. This was beneficial to people who don't like to talk in class and also to those who came up with ideas and suggestions that they couldn't think about in class.

I really liked some of the contents of the Attila and Wizard of Oz posts, especially the Attila one. Was looking forward to reading more and i guess if i keep on checking the blog on a weekly i will see another one that gives invaluable insight as to how to go about dealing with this world.

I have to admit that i haven't been posting on a timely manner and while there other problems that needed to be taken care of, now that i look back i could have used this blog to come up with possible answers. And since i wasn't able to post on time i couldn't get the feedback for my articles from others in class, which is an opportunity squandered. Would this have helped me communicate better and find people with similar views in class, i say yes but i will never be sure because of this self inflicted wound.

I believe the professor should continue with the blogs in the next semester. He and his students stand to gain a lot from it. Professor can use the blog to scope out and see which person has interesting ideas and then try his best to make them participate in class, occasionally calling on them, picking on them to come up with answers and solutions and well if they don't respond then they would be ignoring opportunities knock, which is a career suicide. But this holds true for those individuals that are talented and hesitant to express their views in class but then there are others that are talented and not hesitant so id don't see what they stand to gain from the blog other then the fact that they could write about their ideas and views which didn't come to their mind when they were in class.

Another thing, instead of having individual time constraints placed on every blog have one that applies to all, especially for the comments part. I understand that the professor wants people to post their blogs on time. But what if the comments had just one time constraint, i.e. you should comment on other people's blog by the December 10th, rather than the method currently used. But in order to give people an incentive to comment on time, he can give them half a point for every comment posted within a specific time frame. This would entice the students to timely repond to other people's ideas.

All in all i would indeed continue to post on my blog, there is a reason why i decided to call my blog what i did. How do you tame the business world? I am trying to find the answer to that question. I want to talk about the what the REAL business world is like and talk about and hopefully give out advise that is applicable to work and our goings in real life. Unlike the fairy tale inspired lies that they tell us off in school. Well they may not all be lies but only time will tell and when will i come up with these answers? Well with time, i am in the process of finding these anwers. It may take months and years but rest assured my last blog entry would provide that answer. Until then, answers or no answers, i'll keep on blogging on anyway.