First Class Meeting

Our first class went great!

We met, discussed the syllabus, conducted a very small environment, and had a class meeting. In our class meeting we had three proposals. See the list below:

1. Get rid of homework
Discussion: Nina pointed out that it is very hard to get work done in class because of all the distraction. A 15 minute activity like a graph or answering questions becomes a longer time period because we are distracted by friends. That it would take more like 45 minutes and that Nina would have to walk around and make sure people were focusing and moving forward... Which would mean probably getting rid of half the experiments proposed on the syllabus.

Voted for: 2 (Freedom, Elijah)
Voted against: 9

2. Do the calorimetry experiment with peanuts.
Voted for: 9
Voted against: 2

3. Move the point spread in the class. The participation grade should be higher and the assignments and tests should be lower. Instead of 60% assignments, 20% quizzes, and 20% participation would be a better spread of points.

Voted for: 9
Voted for: 2