Office Hours Part Two

  The goal for this week was to attend at least one session of office hours. Lucky for me I was able to go to almost each and every class that offered office hours this week. However, the slight unlikely part was that it was all due to the mass amount of homework that was due. Nevertheless, my office hours experience was actually tolerable than I thought. I went to office hours for both of my materials science and engineering office hours. The first was for my electrical, magnetic, and optical properties class. Instead of making an appointment, I merely just walked in and asked him for more details about how to approach the problem set.  He was very easy to talk to and the one-on-one attention was something that I wasn't expecting from him.
   Yet, the office hours for my structure and defects class was a completely different situation. I actually had to go twice because the homework took so long to finish even with my study group of six people. The first session of office hours consisted online and boy oh boy was that an experience to never forget. Our teacher was expecting several people to attend office hours, so he decided to have them online instead. It was very confusing at first trying to keep up with what was going on. He was sharing his screen so I just saw him scribbling information down and I was trying to keep up with what was going on. To my avail, there was no audio and it wasn't until 30 minutes into the session did he realize from the group chat that we could not hear him. Instead of stopping and trying to fix the software, he kept on going and wished us the best as he kept writing. It took me a lot longer than I expected to decode everything he had been typing. One of the odd things about office hours was that only three people including myself logged onto the office hour session.
   The second session of office hours consisted of a small classroom with most of my peers and I sitting on the floor. For a second it seemed like my peers and I were having story time with the professor as he enlightened us on the good and evils of the world. Yet I was surprisingly amazed at how much more information I was able to obtain in the group setting. All in all, my office hours experience wasn't as horrible as I thought it was. I was able to get the needed help with my homework. Yet, I think it will take a bit more work before I feel completely comfortable approaching my teachers. Hopefully, this is just the first of many more experiences to come.