Good to have modest number of students

I attended the meeting with new intake yesterday. Dr. Zaff introduced me as Karate-do Blackbelter. Good introduction and I added, "I am second Dan". I think I had left good impact on the new students' memory. Enough for first semester's students.

I noticed that there are around 40 over students for two Bachelor of Design programmes. We actually expected 60, 30 for each programme. Anyway, there will be second intake in February next year. To me, 20 over students are just nice for me to teach in computer lab or studio. I had experience teaching 40+ students in the MMA3013 Computer Animation course and 40 students in the 3D Game Development course in computer lab. There was no fun at all!

Every time I finished my class, I felt like drained out and I didn't feel like doing anything. Exhausted, tired but my brain was spinning fast--trying to solve students' problems.

I always tell the students that, "never complain to me that you have a lot of assignments, because every assignment I give you, I actually gave myself all of your assignments to follow up!" Last sem when I taught Design Aesthetics, there were 123 students in the class. I spent two weeks, day and night, just to read through and mark their learning journals. Nonetheless, it was really enjoying when I found good work done by the students, but I still prefer to have modest  number of students, so that I can allocate sufficient time for those who need my guidance and help. Not necessarily equally, but fair to the students.