VP Ed, Back again. Check and direct and let’s begin. Upside down and inside out I’m about to show you what it’s all about.
But I digress. For those of you that have had a co-op evaluation done in the past, you may have found the evaluation form to be somewhat dubious in certain respects. The connection between the overall grade and the individual points could often be found as disjointed. There has been a concentrated effort over the last while to create a new evaluation form, one that better represents what a student has accomplished over the course of the term. The good news is that this new form will be done very soon. It will soon be undergoing industry and employer feedback and is being geared to be released for the next term (theoretically for the winter co-op term). I have seen this new evaluation and it looks like it will provide much better feedback for both the student and the employer. It should also be noted that the final evaluation grades from the old form (satisfactory, good, excellent, etc.) have been left intact, as changing the final evaluations was deemed to be too problematic.
Next up to bat: Midterms! As Eddard Stark of Game of Thrones fame once said, “[Midterms] are coming.” Well, he probably had some bigger issues with winter, but midterms are probably just as problematic. A friendly reminder to study for them! Don’t let them sneak up on you. Redo some old assignments, create study notes, search up some past exams on the exam bank (located at engsoc.uwaterloo.ca/services/exam-bank), or do some combination of all of the above. Best of all, find what works for you and do it! Exams can send a student into high levels of stress, so don’t forget to take the occasional break while studying as it can help with the retention of information.
Until next time, work hard play hard! (But study for those midterms too!)
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