Learning in and outside the class-room

Cambridge provides a safe environment to learn and experiment new things. One thing I really enjoyed learning during this term was Cuban Salsa. This has been a unique experience for me as I had never before tried any form of dance. Every Tuesday at Darwin we have a Salsa session and it is really cool.

In the class-room I learn as much from my fellow class-mates as I do from the lecturers. For example when we were talking of Japanese Business Culture, our Japanese friends were a greater source of information than any text-book written on the subject.

Outside the class-room, we have so many guest lectures and leaders from the industry providing insights. Most of them are inspirational and practical in nature. A few of them turned out to be a bit boring. However, it is a good practice to attend these sessions as there is always some information that is interesting in all these session.

Moving on to the teaching quality in JBS. The quality and the involvement of the lecturers/professors has been great. They are quite open to ideas and spend a lot of time to get the basics right. During this term we had 11 lecturers teaching us.
In terms of the quality of the lecturers/professors, I would like to classify them in the following categories
1) Excellent - 20% (I would love to attend any class on any subject conducted by these folks)
2) Good - 20% (Subject Matter experts who can give good practical examples and capture the audience)
3) Meet Expectation - 55% (Real cool folks who have great knowledge and can teach in a very systematic and nice way. They are folks who are great teachers and meet my expectations).
4) Below Expectation - 5% (Folks who are subject matter experts but cannot entice their audience for a long time)
5) Poor - 0% (Have not come across anybody who fall in this category)

This opinion and classification is purely based on my observations and may be different from the opinion of my other class-mates.