601 A Group and its Dynamics

In this class we were assigned to work with a group. Group work is the luck of the draw. In this case I was in a group with fantastic people. Our goal was to come up with a problem and essentially fictisciously fix it. The group that I was in worked well together in a collaborative manner. Each person took a role, did the work assigned, and accepted and listened for critical feedback. We really did work well together. Two people worked on the PowerPoint slides, while the rest of us fed them research to put into the presentation. We all accepted or rejected ideas. I liked that every idea was given serious consideration. After the presentation the professor asked us questions and every group member knew what they were talking about because we processed and learned the information together.

In this same class, on the last day, we were asked what we felt we would take away from the class. We had been given five minutes to write down some ideas. I wrote down things like “we now know what is expected of us”, “I am smarter than I thought” and “maybe I CAN do this”. When the class was asked for their responses they all started talking about literally what they had learned in the class. I am still wondering was the introspective way a better way or was the professors intention to cull out what we had learned from the class and not what we had learned about ourselves. Both are important in their own way. I wish he had asked from a more personal perspective. I would have liked to have known how others were feeling. I know others were exhausted but were others overwhelmed or frustrated? I think my fellow boot camp members would have benefited from that information.