Expectation And Reality In The Classroom

As important as effort is being mindful of the differences of expectation and reality is a vital part of completing a task. The managing of these expectations can influence time management, work ethic and general attitude toward a class. Over the first block of this course there has been a significant difference between expectation and reality which has shaped my performance to some extent. As an illustration of this look no further than my first thoughts on the class regarding workload. During the first meeting I was instructed that there would be no more than 75 pages of reading a night, a number that initially threw me. Since, on most nights, the actual amount of reading did not meet this threshold I could have easily began reading later or in the morning. However, because I expected the reading to be difficult and dense (as it sometimes is) and so I began reading at an earlier time and was often able to complete the reading with many hours to spare and often enough …show more content…
In such a small class I expected further class activity together outside of the classroom. This has proven to not be the case, this is perhaps because of the nature of the class or perhaps the nature of the group. This lack of group discussion outside of class is perhaps changing as just recently four of the seven of us worked together (or more accurately near each other in the completion of our essays). This will be interesting to note whether this will be an upward trend into the new block. I wonder if this will influence the earlier point of time management concerning larger assignments. This will be a main point for the next block an attempt at working with my classmates as a method to better discussion, work quality, and time management in regards to assignments. This gap in expectation and reality developed further into other issues (time management, class discussion, etc.) rather than being an individual issue