Saturday, April 24, 2021

Have You Met Professor Deborah Sheffield?



  I started schooling at William Paterson University at the beginning of the pandemic hence, I have not had the opportunity to meet most of my professors and the ones I have met on few occasions has been in class until everything was moved online so judging by the little experience with some faculty members, I will talk about the professor who made an impression on me the most.

 Deborah Sheffield is one professor that I won’t forget because of the role she played in helping me find my feet at William Paterson.

 I easily get nervous in a new environment due to fear of the unknown, and when I newly joined WPU was no exception, learning to deal with blackboard, how to write in APA and all other expectations that comes with being a student was one big sweat breaker.

 Of all the professors I had in my first semester, she stood out and made me feel like I could do and achieve anything I wanted, she was patient and made an effort to understand my point of view when I had issues, her attention and empathy to my plights really encouraged me.

 One of such was when we were asked to get adobe spark for her Comm 1190 class (Communications Studies and Practice)  which was a requirement in creating designs and submitting weekly assignments, I had limitations and couldn’t get on the application, I expressed my issues to her, and she went out of her way to get me a link that enabled me access the app.

 Asides from being my star professor, she is kind, warm as a person, loves dogs and Disney characters a lot.

 She is incredibly fun, beautiful in and out, and knows how to teach because I learnt so much from her and my favorite topic in her class was when she took emotional intelligence.

 Though she was not my advisor, I remember thinking she was my course advisor because of the way she responded to my degree requirement questions or issues then.

 Sheffield is one professor who does the most effortlessly for her students and does not realize the impression or impact it has on some of us.

 So, when I say she made the most impression on me last semester, I wasn’t trying to mince words, she did.



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