Interstellar Relations, Monday

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Laura stood at the front of the room, clad in one of her more casual sweaters -- green -- and a pair of jeans. Atop her head was a green santa hat with white fur adorning the headband and fuzzball. It seemed she was enjoying this new holiday.

"Good morning, all," she said. "I hope you had a good weekend. Today's class is going to be a fairly easy one -- one essay question and a survey, then you're home free. I hope you all have a wonderful winter season."

Turning, she went to the whiteboard and wrote out the essay question: Part One: What is the most important thing you learned in this class, and what role does it play in interstellar relations? She then added below: Part Two: What did you like about the class, and what didn't you like about the class? In other words, where is there room for improvement?

"I promise not to take the criticisms personally. Given that I'm accustomed to teaching a much younger crowd, I'll file it away as a learning experience." She smiled. "That being said, I've enjoyed the class this term, and I hope to see you again in the spring.

"Now -- get writing!"

Grinning, she settled in to her desk and began working on Christmas cards...for the Galactica crew. Why not share the fun, she thought.

[OOC: OCD threads coming up. Sorry about the late posting. And that wasn't so bad, was it Cally? =)]

Comments

Re: Survey!

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The debating was a lot of fun, Anders wrote. I wish we'd had a little more time to do that, though I get that we might not have understood it as much without the stuff we learned beforehand. Also, and I'm just speaking for me here, sometimes the situations we were dealing with in class were a little . . . I mean, I understand the whole survival and refugee thing in a general kind of way, but I'm seventeen and my entire life was peaceful until I got here. Interstellar war is kind of a vague concept for me. It might be kind of interesting to maybe start out with one or two debate/council session(s) that talk about stuff we deal with at this school, and then apply the same concepts to the sort of situations we talked about in class. It might help us make the connection a little better.

Then, as a postscript, he added, But I really, really appreciate that you didn't treat us like we were stupid.