First Week

The first week of the new semester has just ended, it's exciting to be in new classes and to have a new start to the semester. Most teachers just read through their detailed syllabus and told us whether or not to buy the books for the classes. However, my teacher for my Leadership Strategies class decided to do something completely different. Instead, of going through the motions, he did not show up for class. Instead, he sent someone to represent him. We did not talk about the syllabus or anything. Everyone was really confused about what was going on and a lot of people left after we watched a self-help movie by Anthony Robbins.

On the second meeting for the class, the professor pretended to be a "consultant" for the himself and gave the class a piece of paper that gave us a task. While the class was trying to complete the task he sat towards the back of the room and took detailed notes about who in the class took leadership to get the task done. To cut the story short we "avoided" our task. No one really understood the task and the people who were trying to lead the class seemed to just take us further and further away from the task and they were creating their own. This was so frustrating not only because we didn't complete the task but none of us had experienced a professor do something so outside of the norm.

Anyways, I still have yet to officially meet my professor but I have already learned something. I learned that you can have people who are willing to take charge but are not necessarily good leaders. I also learned that as students we are conditioned to expect things in our classes and when certain things do not occur, such as the professor not showing up or ever introducing himself, etc. students get frantic and become in a way disrespectful and do not want to complete the task at hand. I personally find the professor's style of teaching interesting. This is a good way to show us how valuable a good leader is and also is very eye opening to see how people react to bad leadership.

Well, I really don't have anything else to say so that's all for now. Take it easy.

-Kristen