{"id":5544,"date":"2014-10-09T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2014-10-23T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:56:03","slug":"the-city-college-class-eco-102500-principles-of-microeconomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5544","title":{"rendered":"The City College Class: ECO 102500 Principles of Microeconomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The key lesson here is to understand terminologies more than the math.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Jonatan Jelen was rated funny online. That his teaching is more on jokes than content.<br \/>\nNothing about his assistance, \"Don\", who substitutes Jelen from time to time. However, Don focuses on the text, which is better.<\/p>\n<p>The first test is all about terminologies and definitions and appears to be following the textbook's online quizzes.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.flatworldknowledge.com\/bookhub\/reader\/5230?cid=\" target=\"_blank\">Rittenberg, L., Tregarthen, T., Principles of Microeconomics, v. 2.0, March 2012, eISBN 9781-4533-3267-2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To score in Jelen's class one just needs to memorize the terminologies from the textbook. And do the quizzes from the text online. Jelen's exam questions follow whatever the text says verbatim. His lectures have little to do with the test. He even made mistakes in some cases which were contrary to the textbook: ie. fixed price only happens in long run (Jelen) while textbook says short run. When a student confronted him, Jelen tried to redefine his meaning of \"fixed price\".<\/p>\n<p>Jelen referred us to Khanacademy free videos on microeconomics by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salman_Khan_%28educator%29\" target=\"_blank\">Salman Khan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jelen's \"stories\" are actually fascinating. I learned a lot. Therefore, it is best to read the text prior to his lectures, which aren't following the text really well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key lesson here is to understand terminologies more than the math. Prof. Jonatan Jelen was rated funny online. That his teaching is more on jokes than content. Nothing about his assistance, \"Don\", who substitutes Jelen from time to time. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5616,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions\/5616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}