"I just wanted to take a minute to thank both of you for everything you taught me at Geneva, even the notebooks! So far, graduate school has not been extremely daunting because of how well you prepared me. The amount of knowledge and experience you provided us at Geneva shows through at California University. Often, we are asked if our undergraduate program was really difficult because we seem to be ahead in most things. Researching articles, writing diagnostic reports, keeping up with paper work, scoring standardized tests are just some of the areas that aren’t intimidating to us. Also, thank you, thank you, thank you for the notebooks! I can't tell you how much I have used them these past two semesters."
Jen Carey ('11)
Hello! It's been a long time and I hope everything is going well at Geneva. I just wanted to send you guys a message and thank you for teaching us everything you did in undergrad. I know we complained aboutthe workload and how difficult it may have been at times, but you were right...in comparison to other schools we were well prepared. Working on group projects for school this semester has really opened my eyes to that and I am thankful for the education I received at Geneva through you both. We have even used some of the same textbooks (for aphasia and language development) as we did in undergrad so that saved me money :).
Also, as difficult as it is to find us all placements in undergrad, it is incredible how much we learn from that experience and how beneficial it is when we begin clinic in graduate school. Although each supervisor has slightly different expectations and requirements, the benefit of already having one semester of clinic work is so great. Finally, as much as we complain about turning in the notebooks at the end of the semester they are very helpful in graduate school to look information up quickly. I had to make a chartfor my aphasia class exactly like the one we made in undergrad and do reviews of a variety of standardized assessments. All of those assignments were so simple because I had quick references to go off of, understood what was expected , and didn't have to start from scratch. I also even had great diagrams of the muscles of the face and neck to refer to when making my speech mechanism model for dysphagia without having to try to find them online like the majority of the rest of the people in my program.
So, overall thank you for putting in all of the effort you do each semester to teach us the things we need to know. I can see the benefit in everything you made us do, even if at the time I didn't. I really appreciate it all and don't think I would have been as successful in grad school as i was without it. "
Miranda Deitz Csaszar ('11)