TESU Liberal Arts Capstone mentor feedback

[jsd]

I really like him. I haven't had to interact with him too much, but his feedback has been very insightful. He's always on top of sending reminders and updates to the class, which compared to the only other TESU course I've taken is a nice change. My previous mentor didn't seem to be involved at all in the course except for grading papers. Wiley is a bit more active.

The capstone isn't fun and it can get a bit grueling, but as many people have said it's really just repeating yourself over and over again. I'm only working on chapter 3 so far, but it's unbelievable how much I have written the same thing in different ways. You're a bit on your own trying to figure out what the course is actually asking you to do. The book isn't very helpful and I've basically stopped opening it. It's aimed at a level beyond the scope of this capstone. I've relied pretty much exclusively on the sample papers that others were so kind to share here for guidance. I'd be lost without them. I'm sure Wiley would be helpful if I reached out to him for it, but thankfully due to the samples I've gotten by without bugging him. But I can't imagine what a headache this course would be without samples or without a mentor who is accessible.

I'm not particularly gung-ho or proud of my paper; I'm not putting the most effort into it that I feel like I should. I feel like I finally hit a wall gathering up all of these credits, and I'm so happy that these are my final three. I guess I have senioritis hilarious

That being said, Wiley's grading on the first 2 chapters has been more than fair, and an A should be easily attainable if everything keeps up at this rate.