Anonymous student comments from

MCS*2020: Information Management

Winter 2007 semester

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”