Ugh- BUS 489 - Strategic Fundamentals and Environment with Milestones

[lidel]

Thanks @lidel! I did email him again this evening and said the milestone is asking for AAA strategy I would recommend, and I defined and gave examples of what I would recommend by using the financial statements that he asked me to use. I then asked him if I'm not understanding the milestone question correctly to please let me know. I never have issues understanding the milestones except with his courses, and I blame myself for not comprehending. I have a 3.94 gpa and this is my last course before graduation and wanted to do a good job on the course.

I think your situation was almost exactly like mine. He's looking for one very specific thing, and to give him credit, he did communicate it to me a couple of times but I missed it. Read his messages back carefully, I know it shouldn't be that hard to figure out, but I didn't find his communication style meshed well with mine even though it was there all along.

[jai.patel11]

Is anyone taking this course now with Professor Noah Winslow? We have gone back and forth about 8 times on an answer to a milestone and I feel like we are reading two different things regarding what the question is asking.  It's the milestone about Ghemawatt AAA strategy that he's asking for something different than the milestone, and when I answer his questions, he says that's not the milestone question.

HI, Does BUS 489 is a paper assessment or MCQ exam?

[ss20ts]

Is anyone taking this course now with Professor Noah Winslow? We have gone back and forth about 8 times on an answer to a milestone and I feel like we are reading two different things regarding what the question is asking.  It's the milestone about Ghemawatt AAA strategy that he's asking for something different than the milestone, and when I answer his questions, he says that's not the milestone question.

HI, Does BUS 489 is a paper assessment or MCQ exam?

It's a paper. You can ask your advisor for a list of the courses and the Final Assessments. There are very few exams. If you're enrolled in the course, you can look at the Final Assessment to see what you have to do.

[KSoul]

Is anyone taking this course now with Professor Noah Winslow? We have gone back and forth about 8 times on an answer to a milestone and I feel like we are reading two different things regarding what the question is asking.  It's the milestone about Ghemawatt AAA strategy that he's asking for something different than the milestone, and when I answer his questions, he says that's not the milestone question.

HI, Does BUS 489 is a paper assessment or MCQ exam?

It's a paper. You can ask your advisor for a list of the courses and the Final Assessments. There are very few exams. If you're enrolled in the course, you can look at the Final Assessment to see what you have to do.

I also had a decent amount of pushback on my Milestones in this class. I chalked it up for speed vs. a reflection of what I put down. Sometimes you have such an interest in finishing the course that the milestones become an afterthought. Again, I am speaking from an assessment of myself. 

My sister, on the other hand, seems to have caught an excellent rhythm on Milestones, and I don't believe she has been asked for one revision at this point. However, she did get one for a writing assignment, so that was nice to see she is mortal.

[ss20ts]

I also had a decent amount of pushback on my Milestones in this class. I chalked it up for speed vs. a reflection of what I put down. Sometimes you have such an interest in finishing the course that the milestones become an afterthought. Again, I am speaking from an assessment of myself. 

My sister, on the other hand, seems to have caught an excellent rhythm on Milestones, and I don't believe she has been asked for one revision at this point. However, she did get one for a writing assignment, so that was nice to see she is mortal.

You two are so funny. She is a mortal. 

Some professors are really picky about the Milestones. Others I don't think care at all. In the marketing classes, 2 of the professors pushback on them.

[KSoul]

I also had a decent amount of pushback on my Milestones in this class. I chalked it up for speed vs. a reflection of what I put down. Sometimes you have such an interest in finishing the course that the milestones become an afterthought. Again, I am speaking from an assessment of myself. 

My sister, on the other hand, seems to have caught an excellent rhythm on Milestones, and I don't believe she has been asked for one revision at this point. However, she did get one for a writing assignment, so that was nice to see she is mortal.

You two are so funny. She is a mortal. 

Some professors are really picky about the Milestones. Others I don't think care at all. In the marketing classes, 2 of the professors pushback on them.

We are a family of 'hypers.' My father promotes that your biggest fans should be family members. My sister is not in the forum, but if she were, she would be 'hyping' me as well 

[uncoolbilly]

The second Milestone I receive great comments and maybe even an accolade, it was a straight fast ball and I crushed it...

BUT, I knew it would happen. Add me to the list of people that the 1st milestone was returned by Professor Winslow. Yes it's that dreaded first milestone. I almost feel like everyone misses whatever he is looking for and he has a copy/paste response stating that you need to reread the question and dig into the financials to find the correct strategy... I'm at that fortune 200 company, I've been through the Financials with Deloitte as well as Bain twice. I'm sure I'm missing a simple "gotcha" in the question...

[TaraRogan]

The second Milestone I receive great comments and maybe even an accolade, it was a straight fast ball and I crushed it...

BUT, I knew it would happen. Add me to the list of people that the 1st milestone was returned by Professor Winslow. Yes it's that dreaded first milestone. I almost feel like everyone misses whatever he is looking for and he has a copy/paste response stating that you need to reread the question and dig into the financials to find the correct strategy... I'm at that fortune 200 company, I've been through the Financials with Deloitte as well as Bain twice. I'm sure I'm missing a simple "gotcha" in the question...

Got any tips to share? Just got my milestone returned and feedback was NOT helpful.

[ss20ts]

The second Milestone I receive great comments and maybe even an accolade, it was a straight fast ball and I crushed it...

BUT, I knew it would happen. Add me to the list of people that the 1st milestone was returned by Professor Winslow. Yes it's that dreaded first milestone. I almost feel like everyone misses whatever he is looking for and he has a copy/paste response stating that you need to reread the question and dig into the financials to find the correct strategy... I'm at that fortune 200 company, I've been through the Financials with Deloitte as well as Bain twice. I'm sure I'm missing a simple "gotcha" in the question...

There's a professor in the marketing courses who does the same thing. I wanted to rip his head off through email. I would email him asking very specific questions because he wouldn't provide any insight to what I was missing. It took 5 attempts to get the Milestone approved. He just would say read the content and answer the questions. I did that and he didn't like it. Being told to reread is not helpful at all.

[BSBRose21]

How long are the milestones in this class? Is it expected to be longer papers or a few paragraphs?