Tonight I had my second class that I am taking in this Summer Term at part-time MBA program at GWSB. I have been looking forward to this course and it seems that my high expectations will be met in this class. I have long been interested in marketing and I really expect to learn a lot from the course. Professor is very knowledgeable and explains concepts very clearly. That’s a big plus.
Frankly, pretty much all of the professors I have had so far during my first year of MBA program at George Washington University have been very good in terms of knowing their subject matter cold. However, not all of them were equally good in the department of teaching.
That’s why I cannot stop raving about ratemyprofessors.com . After the first module in fall and my less than idyllic experience with Financial Accounting, I have always been checking out ratings of professors on that website before signing up for any of my classes. So far it proved to be very helpful. I actually had to re-arrange some of my classes or postpone taking at least one class to later time when it will be taught by another professor on a couple of occasions after checking the ratings. And I managed to steer clear from the classes where the instructor was TBA at the time of my sign up. This flexibility of selecting even your core courses is a great benefit of a part-time MBA at GWSB which I came to appreciate greatly.
As for Marketing, we have five business cases to work on in the course of the remaining five weeks of the class, so it is going to be quite intensive reading/writing term. Especially because my other class in Business and Public Policy is also heavy on write ups. In both classes we have been arbitrarily assigned to groups by the instructors, and almost all cases we work on will be group projects.
I have “tough love” with group projects. If everyone in the group is pulling their share, it’s mostly fun. But with even one free-rider in the group it can turn into the major source of frustration. I had both types of experience in my MBA program and had a post about group projects. That one explains why I am in “love-hate” relationship with group projects. You can not look up your group mates on some sort of ratemyclassmates.com, and even if you could, having arbitrary group assignments would make it useless. Well, I will have to live with that and make do with whoever comes my way. I guess I am not all sugar myself for some of my classmates either 
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