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Hi Ms Athel! Thank you so much for your time every Thursday for Reading Group as well as planning all the materials for us! I really gained a lot of insight towards how I frame my relationships and have much to take away from what I have experienced. It was not easy to break down these difficult sociologial concepts, but you really kept us engaged thoughout when you simplified these concepts into things that were more relatable for us to understand. We really appreciate your personal experiences and passion for the topic, and thank you also for inviting the two guests to share too! I hope that you had an enjoyable time teaching in CAPT and I'm sure your future students would also enjoy your lessons too :) thank you so much!

-Han Ming

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Hello Ms Athel!

Thank you for putting together this Reading Group and sharing you passion for the topic with the class. Even though it is your first semester in CAPT, I think that you are a great fit and will be an asset to the CAPT community!

We really appreciate you putting us in the center of your teaching. From teaching us tips such as the 3-pass method, making connections between the class theories and our respective experiences in CAPT, to you release us on time, really appreciate your effort in making this class experience a pleasant one!

Hope you continue to have a pleasant experience interacting with CAPTains! Though I am sure your first reading group students (aka us) will be irreplaceable 😇

sherman

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Hello Ms Athel!

Through the past few weeks that we've all been together, I think we have definitely learnt a lot from you. Seeing your passion for mental health and your desire to help this group of people using the concept of social capital has been heartwarming. I have enjoyed all your lessons and the sharings that were planned!

As I mentioned during our first session, sociology is not something that interests me as I felt it was very theory-based and dry but this RG enabled me to see how such theories were applied in society which made it a lot more interesting.

I really appreciate your effort throughout the past few weeks and I wish you all the best as you continue to impart knowledge to your future students! :)

I LOVE your bubbly and cheerful personality HEHE hope to see you around capt!!

Enrica

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Hiiiii Ms Athel,

Thank you for organizing this Reading Group! I really appreciate the effort and energy that you put out ever week (even when you are sick)! Your passion for helping others and teaching really shines through! I would especially like to thank you for creating a class environment that is safe and productive for discussions, it encouraged me to share and listen openly.

In all honestly, Social Capital wasn't a phrase that I ever contemplated (I don't think I even heard the two words used together prior to this module), but these sessions has taught me to be aware of (1)my privilege as a University and CAPT and (2) the strength of weak ties. I might fail to understand the concept in its entirety (there's so many different definitions and so much nuance) but I will definitely try to adopt this lens when deliberating solutions in the future. Lastly, I would also like to thank you for joining CAPT! I think that you make an excellent addition to the culture and I am sure that you will impact and shape the lives of many many CAPTains! Take care of yourself and stay safe!

p.s: Hope you won't forget us BAHAHAHA

Marcus Jude Wong Shyuan

2023

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Thank you for planning the Reading Group for the past few weeks! Your cheerful and friendly personality has been a great addition to the otherwise bland classroom environment. You've made every lesson so engaging, with each guest speaker you invite and each discussion we had as a class. Reading Group has truly been a breath of fresh air during this rather stressful Year 3 in university, and I wish I could have made it for more sessions. It was interesting and insightful to delve deeper into the concept of social capital deeper and how it is ingrained in different aspects of our lives. More interesting is the link between mental heath and social capital, and how one's social capital can play a significant role in addressing one's mental well-being. Thank you once again for the insightful lessons you've provided, I am definitely glad to have taken this Reading Group. All the best in your future endeavours and I know the future batches of CAPT students will be equally charmed by your teaching and personality! :)

(P.S. Thank you for reaching out to me and checking up on me just now!)

Yune

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hello ms athel!

Thank you for creating this reading group for us to learn about social capital and allowing us to understand the influences it has on individuals and communities. I believe I speak for everyone when we took away lessons from the reading group that can apply to CAPT and the wider community. It is definitely not easy to break down such broad and complex terminologies and concepts into something so digestible for us to learn and consistently keeping us engaged.

On that note, welcome to CAPT and hope that you feel at home here! I believe your passion and insights towards mental health and social enterprises will be beneficial in further shaping and honing CAPT's ACE :)

We really appreciate your efforts into this reading group and helping us learn and build a community among us CAPT fossils heheh. Thank you so much and see you around!

~ victoria

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Hi Ms Athel!

I wasn't too sure what to expect for this reading group, given that the idea of 'Social Capital' is pretty complex and broad. I was also kinda worried that I would be very lost as a non-FASS major LOL

But I think that over the weeks, you have done an AMAZING job at guiding us through unpacking the idea(s) and seeing how it makes sense with some context, such as mental health. You are a great teacher and I am sure any student under your charge will feel the same and grow alot under you.

I really appreciated the pieces of wisdom given here and there, like the 3-pass reading method and the emphasis on getting us to understand the concepts.

I feel that you planted some very important seeds of thought to everyone during this reading group, and I am sure that these will bear fruit for everyone here, when we find ourselves drawing on the theoretical concepts we learnt in your class!! (I think the concepts taught here are able to be applied across different fields of study, even computing!)

In particular I want to say that I enjoyed the in-class activities and especially the field trips and guest speakers. It is REALLY something else to see theory come to life, especially for humanities!

I hope we have been good 'guinea pigs' for the course! Hopefully we get to see a "social capital" senior seminar sometime soon!! (10/10 will recommend).

See you around next semester and ALL THE BEST for your CAPT courses!!

> nich yek

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Your lessons are always lively and enriching, and your guests have been extremely knowledgable with fascinating insights!

Thank you for all the effort you put into teaching us <3 Its clear that you care deeply about this subject and your students and we appreciate you!

- Nicole

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Hi Ms Athel! thank you for sharing with you your insight on various aspects of social capitals:)) Your lessons are very enriching, and the guest speakers and field trip truly provide great exposure to various fields that are value adding to my learning. Thank you for organising everything!

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Hi Miss Athel, this reading group has been a pleasant experience for me this semester! Thank you for being so patient and understanding whenever I need to be excused/late for class because of my lab. Even though you’re new to CAPT, I feel like you really fit in here!

I have learnt much about social capital through this RG and it opened my eyes to the many complex ideas and concepts. I can tell that you really put in a lot of effort in planning this RG and I hope that it’ll continue to benefit many CAPTains in the long run!

See you around :D

Valerie

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Hi Ms Athel!

Just wanted to thank you for the amazing 8 weeks(?) together!!:) It has been a joy being in your class and I have learnt so many new things. Before this class, I have not even heard of social capital before but I find it very interesting and it's something I will think about more as I serve the community and think of areas that I can provide help. Thank you for always being so kind and understanding, for making lessons so comfortable for us that we can always share our views. I think that you are going to do great things in capt!:) And mental wellness SS will be in great hands! (wish i couldve been your TA!!!) Hope to see you around when I come back to visit capt next time!:) Take care and all the best for future endeavours!!

-Li Xuan

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Hi Prof Athel! Time really flies, and I just want to say thank you for taking the time to take us through the Social Capital RG It's really cool that you got your dream job to teach in CAPT and I hope that taking all of us for Reading Group the last 8 weeks was a fulfilling and fun first experience into teaching here! I really appreciate the effort that you put into meticulously planning out the different weeks of the sessions for us, the attempts to make things interesting for us through discussions and different mediums/fieldtrips/guest lectures, for being chill to banter and joke around with us, bring the meanings and to also draw out the learning points for us even share little nuggets of cool wisdom that you picked up from your experiences! It all shows your passion for teaching and what you do and hope for us to take away things from your class, and it was something nice for all of us seniors to do! Hope that as you continue your time in CAPT that CAPT will also become a home, just like it was for all of us seniors who enjoyed our 2 years here and found our 2nd homes (or ✨social capital✨) here! Take care and God bless :))

-Lorcan

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Thank you Ms Athel for leading and teaching this reading group with such enthusiasm and vigour.

It's quite clear to see your passion and commitment to being an educator and I believe that you have made the content and topic of social capital accessible and exciting for all of us. It really does not seem like its your first sem in capt and i think that speaks to the way you fit in well with culture here! I hope that the journey in capt continues to be a fun and enriching one for you, as you enrich the minds of the many you encounter. All the best and see you around!

~Ashwin

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Hi ms athel,

Thank u for the engaging lessons these past few weeks and i really gained a pretty good grasp of social capital through your teachings. I hope that we were a good first batch of reading group seniors for you and made your classes more lively. Even though it is a bit sad I wont be around to see you next semester, I know that as you get to know more CAPTains, you will definitely find your time here rewarding and fun! All the best for your future endeavours :)

yu shuang :)

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Thank you for giving something for me that's also related to the (HU)man body to look forward to every Thursday (even if I'm not able to attend sometimes >_<)

I am very thankful to you for letting me sit in for the classes, and I have no regrets about spending my Thursday afternoons in your class. The only regret I have is not being able to attend more lessons, and to also have another round of this RG for the next Semester to explore this concept further :")

I really appreciate the effort you put into every class, to make it unique and memorable while also effectively communicating the concepts of social capital to us. For me, I don't typically have such classes outside of my normal curriculum, and I am very appreciative of this opportunity to gain exposure to concepts that I can relate to what I have learnt in class! It has given me some ideas about how we communicate with close friends and strangers, and understanding their perspectives when it comes to building trust with me.

I have had a wonderful experience (didn't even feel like this was an inaugural class it was planned and executed well) and it is largely thanks to your enthusiasm and careful guidance throughout this RG.

I hope to see you around (maybe attend another module of yours if ever possible haha) and wish you all the best in your future endeavours! Wishing you a speedy recovery as well!

~Jun Jie ~

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Your classes have been amazing and I really appreciate your effort and energy to your classes. I think you are a valuable addition to CAPT. Your lessons have been really inspiring and it is really commendable how much effort you put into contacting different stakeholders to make this RG more engaging. Hope to see you around a lot more in CAPT. ❤️

Ying Ting

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I wasn't expecting the reading group to be this interactive (fun?) and thought-provoking simultaneously! Initially, I thought it would just be a bunch of CAPT fossils coming down to chill, participate in a discussion and get back to work. But you offered us a chance to understand something prevalent in our daily lives and gave us multiple perspectives. The visit to SAMH and having the guest speakers was a nice touch as they shared real-life events which could be tied to the social capital concepts we learned in class. Thank you once again, and I hope that you will enjoy your CAPT journey! So.... when SAMH cafe?

-Aaron

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Hi Ms Athel,

I wasn't sure about what to expect from this reading group because I took the intro to sociology module and I didn't particularly like it or find it interesting. I was also a little afraid I wouldn't be able to understand more "theoretical and complex concepts" due to not being a FASS major LOL (even though I did go through CHS modules).

Thank you for teaching this reading group and sharing your passion for human relationships with the class. It was very insightful in how I will perceive and frame my relationships with other people. It wasn't easy to break down the concepts (and honestly it was hard to understand the readings) but I'm glad that I at least can remember some concepts like "the strength of weak ties" because of how you simplified the concepts. I really enjoyed listening to the guest speakers because it made the "theoretical concepts" that much less theoretical and more applicable to real life.

Thank you for also engaging everyone, it's not always that we have a nice, friendly, engaging tutor who will interact with us outside of class. I really appreciate the last conversation we had about the cat that I drew haha, it reminds me that there are people who will want to build a relationship with you, no matter how small. I'm sure you might not have thought much of it, but it did make my day after a long day.

I'm sure you will be able to continue spreading your words of wisdom with the other CAPTains. Hope you continue to teach in CAPT and have pleasant memories in this career of yours by interacting with the CAPTains in the subsequent years~

- Jolene