Decision Making!

I don't necessarily consider myself to fall into any single category in describing myself or actions at any point in my life, and the same goes for the scenario in class. I think I was a mixture of a "Compromise" type of mentality and "Collaborating." I felt I need to compromise in some scenarios of the class in order for the situation not to get out of hand, sort of how it was getting. "Enough is enough" is all that came to mind at certain points of the project. I was amazed at the extent of how much we were actually getting. One thing lead to another, and we made off like bandits. Especially when Professor Kurpis was going around the room and asking if everyone was satisfied with the decision and there were some fellow classmates, for some reason of whether of not that they didn't fully understand or for their own personal reasons, didn't raise there hands in satisfaction of what deal we had received. For the people that don't fully understand English, I know that it is hard to fully understand what is going on, but come on. If there is a classroom of people that are working on your side to get the best deal possible for everyone in the classroom in every type of way, you should just understand to the extent that if not all of us agree at that point, that we receive NOTHING. That should be enough to want to agree on any decisions made by the class at that point. I was literally begging and pleading with one or two of the people in order to get them to go along with what the class had decided on. That is where the "Collaborating"perspective came into play. For any of the people that understand English and just raised there hands in the end, your just out of your mind and not a nice person, I don't know any other way of putting it. I honestly saw almost every aspect of what was listed on that last slide being displayed in the classroom. but what honestly came back into mind, was when there were people that were the "avoidance" mentality in class and then when we were going into the review of the scenario were some of the most active people there. Complaining about how we should of gotten more, done this different, done that different, blah blah blah! Shut up! You don't open your mouth then, don't open it now. If anyone is upset at the deal we received, you are out of your mind and should understand that you will never be satisfied in life. We got the deal of a century. Forget about the deal itself, the opportunity alone to debate the terms on what will happen with our test scores and the examinations themselves was a blessing in itself. I honestly think for a class of around 60 people, we actually did amazing given the circumstances. The only thing that we should have done different was broken into groups like Vinnie and Professor Kurpis pointed out. At first, I thought it was a little to time consuming and irrational. but after thinking about it, I think it is a pretty good idea. I just like the whole idea of it and think that it is the most representative democratic way of dealing with it and more effective then the direct democratic way we held it, like a town hall meeting back in the day when they discussed issues and settled them the same exact way we did it. All in all, I think it was a great experience. Professor, if you wanna do another one for the final to see how we have learned on decision making, I am all about it hahahahah Thanks again!!!!!

Humpty Dumpty Lives on!!!!!!!!

WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN was our game strategy, but to bad it did not happen. We had a good understanding of our deadlines and built up a sketch of how our contraption was to work. Surprisingly, it was built almost exactly how we intended it to. We did not have a leader in our group which would have been to difficult to do, at least I think. Even going through the process, it seemed there were so many people trying to take role of who had the best idea. In the end though, we did reach a median in where we finally completed the device and we all seemed pretty happy in the way it was constructed. Honestly, for all the devices that were not constructed to hang 2 inches off the ground before it dropped, I think ours was the closest to reaching the goal and the best constructed/designed. The only thing we should've done was stabilize the egg in the middle of our device instead of at the top and it would have worked fine. Either that or made the base wider on our original design so it did not tip over after it landed and then cracking the egg. All in all, I think our group did a great job on the planning, construction, and implementation stages of the project. I just wish overall, everyone had better work etiquette within the group. People were mocking others for their ideas instead of stating it politely, people were grabbing materials out of other peoples hands without asking, and other little things. it was just rude behavior that shouldn't have to take place within a work environment with other people. One group should act as a team together instead of being harsh towards one another. the whole class in general was rooting and cheering for other group's eggs to crack which was ridiculous in the first place. Acting as if that groups winning would be a negative consequence to their group's effort, when in reality they were all independent of each other. That just shows people have no sportsmanship, which is a loss in and of itself.