Hands On Decision Making

During the decision making activity, I handled the activity with a compromising way. I felt like the class was all over the board with their grades on the exam so I was going to suggest a curve but someone said it before me. I thought that was a good way of raising the grade for the ones that didn’t do so well on the exam while the others get a boost for a higher grade. When I heard the idea of dropping the lowest grade and doubling the highest plus extra credit I felt like I had more of a compete to win vibe because I wanted that since I did pretty well on this exam and I wouldn’t have to worry about getting a bad grade on the other exam. I also had a afterthought for the class, I mean if they do bad on this test, and this is the higher out of the both grades, they would still fail wouldn’t they? But with my compete to win mentality I didn’t care because this would boost up my grade, it will also bring score a letter grade higher which I was pretty happy with. The exercise went pretty well until someone decided that they wanted the essay part on the test. I felt like since Professor Kurpis emphasized that many people had problem with the essay, that person should be considerate that not everyone had problems with the essay because they didn’t study well enough but because English is their second language. I mean I was born here but I felt like it’s better to accommodate other because it’s not their fault that they weren’t born in the United States. I really felt like the essay part shouldn’t be on the next exam. Other than that I think the class handled the situation pretty well.

Egg Project Status:FAIL

The egg project was was very interesting, even though my group failed to keep the egg safe. When we first started with the egg, every one in the group had an idea to express. We defined our goal, understood that we needed to keep the egg from breaking and show 50 percent of the egg. I felt we were going through our ideas but played around with the alternatives. We asked if we could connect everything and make a fishing rod like contraption but that plan failed because we needed to let the egg go 10 feet in the air. We played around with our second alternative by make triangles to protect the egg and we went with the idea. But we fail to find the best way by combining the best of the first theory with the second theory. The group's strength was definitely that we gave each person a role when making the contraption. We also in the middle of making the contraption, one of my teammate and I had to try to write up the paper and make sure the paper is in the hand of whoever was dropping the contraption. The weakness was the whole group was trying to make the contraption all at once plus we tried to change the plan a little when we were making the contraption. I felt like the whole group wanted to make the contraption at once so I stepped back and let them do their job while I passed them the tape. After watching everyone let go of their contraption, we felt like we were one the right track with our first theory but then we misunderstood that the egg had to be drop at 10 feet. I felt that if we made our contraption on the first idea, our egg could have survived.