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It is 4:00 p.m. on a Friday in Fulton 310. The lights are soft, and the whispery vocals of British singer-songwriter James Bay (鈥淟et it Go鈥�) are playing in the background. Twenty first-year students are at their desks in the small classroom. Some are writing steadily in their journals. Others are pausing, pen to lip or chin resting on one hand.

The first-semester students in Professor Ethan Sullivan鈥檚聽Portico聽class are not taking a test. They are engaging in a version of 鈥渢he Examen,鈥� a centuries-old Jesuit meditation. At the start of class each Friday, the students jot down their thoughts about what they鈥檙e grateful for and what went right or wrong during the week. They end by setting personal goals or considering what they ought to do in the coming week.

鈥淎 lot of people would be surprised to see that this is going on in a business school,鈥� Sullivan points out in a subsequent conversation.

Self-reflection is a signature of Portico, a required class launched seven years ago and taken by all entering students at md传媒国产剧 College鈥檚 Carroll School of Management. With 34 sections taught by seven faculty members, the course offers a port of entry into the world of management as seen through a broadly interdisciplinary lens. Philosophy, ethics, and the social sciences are stirred into the mix.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e not used to thinking about decisions they鈥檝e made, or they think about them for a moment and then the thoughts are gone,鈥� LaCombe observes, noting that the same could be said of many mid-career executives. She cites multitasking as one big obstacle to self-reflection and the focused attention that such an exercise requires.

Yet LaCombe and other Portico professors say that in a matter of weeks, students begin acquiring the habits of reflection, which include self-evaluation.

Leigh Channell 鈥�19 agrees with LaCombe鈥檚 assessment. She says the weekly exercise has made her 鈥渁ware of things that would otherwise fly under the radar鈥� of her consciousness. As one example, the student from Georgia鈥檚 Sea Islands mentions that she never quite realized she had a problem with procrastination (notably with her math homework) until the theme began surfacing in her written reflections. 鈥淭he Examen made me aware of that. I鈥檓 much more on top of my assignments now,鈥� she says.

One time during this past fall semester, Channell had to miss a Friday Portico class to attend a special event at Episcopal High School, the boarding school she had graduated from, in Alexandria, Virginia. On the flight there, she found herself doing the Examen with pen and paper. 鈥淚 realized that if I hadn鈥檛 done it, I would have felt a little empty. It鈥檚 become a big closer of my week,鈥� she explains.