My group Experience

Altidor, Samuel

Professor D. Lemeh

ARH2000

31 March 2013

Blog Entry 10

My Group Experience

            Let me just say that I’m not really having a good experience with the group right now. First of all, two students who live on campus just meet up and appointed themselves as group leaders without the approval of the rest of the group. The same two students chose what the group presentation should be about; again without checking with the rest of the group. I’ve suggested other ideas but the group leaders shut them down saying that their idea was better. I don’t want to criticize any particular person from the group, but I have a feeling that there are a lot of people in the group that just want the grade without doing the work. I was excited about being part of a group because I thought we were going to meet, talk about what to do, and come up with a great idea. However by the time I met up with the rest of the group everything was already decided. I spent 9 years in the Army, so I really believe in teamwork. I believe in everybody from the team pitching in ideas and let the majority decide what to do. I believe that each and every student has a certain skills they could have contributed to the group; for instance, I’m a photographer, James is a DJ, etc… I was hoping that we could have used everybody’s strength to produce one of the greatest presentations. I don’t think everybody was given the opportunity to express his or her ideas. Maybe I had my hopes up to high.