Monday, October 27, 2008

Any Objections?

sigh...ok, once again we had a class assignment and once again it was entertaining. this class we had to format a test and come to a 100 percent consensus on what we wanted. easily said than done. there were a few people who jumped to take control and it obviously wasnt going to work. what i did was let everyone else try to make the decisions and if the proposals sounded ok then i would vote for it but nothing was actually getting through to people. after waiting for someone to start being a leader someone...i think his name is albert stepped up and sort of grasped peoples attention. he was doing an ok job but he wasnt really getting his point across or controlling the class the way a leader is suposed to. so i changed my way of thinking and became more assertive (compete to win) and in the end as a class we decided on some real major issues and solved them. the reason i took "albert's" position is because i felt that i could do a better job than he was and he had no problem letting me try to talk to the class. given that i know how heated people got at the situation and how defensive and rude people became i still dont think i would change the way things were done. the outcome that we got i would say was a pretty good one and i honestly enjoyed hearing people bicker about their grades because it shows how people only care about themselves. its the american way i guess. individualism showed its ugly side during that class and i had fun watching until it was almost time to come up with our final decision and i realized that no progress was really made. all in all im happy with our decision..any objections? = p

2 comments:

david song said...

Haha, you're right. It was pretty fun watching how selfish people can get. It's understandable for those who didn't do so well on the exam to want a better grade. But the people who got fairly good grades, including myself, wanted something more as well. I also agree that a lot of it has to do with the American mentality. It's always "I", "my", and "me". I thought the class was pretty damn entertaining.

MUNZE said...

Yep, all in all I agree that the outcome was what's most important and compared to what could have happened we still managed to pull it off and agree on most things and have a 100 percent vote at the end.
You did a good job stepping up an leading through the final vote.I found it funny and frustrating that everybody knew what was best for them not taking into consideration that it might not be best for the majority of others... but we still got the job done so no complains, well maybe the essay question could be changed:).