Majors Activity..

When first assigned an activity in a group, I was excited. I love working with other people, and learning from them. My group consisted of four girls, and we all got along very well. We exchanged numbers right off the bat, so that we were able to contact each other about our presentation. That same day in class we made a time on Tuesday and on Friday before class to meet and do our project. When we met up on Tuesday, all of the group members showed up on time, and participated. We just helped each other with each individual question, and did as much as we could to get every part done. We took each question individually and all answered it together, putting all of our ideas into the answer. Also on Tuesday, we put all of our information together in a powerpoint. We each helped pick out pictures and text fonts, as well as backgrounds. On Thursday when we met, we went over the information that we had, made sure the powerpoint worked, and divided up the sections in which each of us were to present. Overall, the meetings with my group members went really good, and we completed all that we needed to. Our intentions in meeting up at the library were to get everything completed and to not be rushed and unprepared come Friday. 

It ended up that were anything but unprepared on the day of presentations. Our powerpoint was done very well. We had bullet points, and images, and plenty of knowledge about our majors so that we could talk more about it than what was just on the screen. The only problem that we experienced was when we went to hook up one of our computers, we didn't have the right cable cord. We ended up having to step outside and allow another group to go in front of us. Overall though, our presentation went really well, and were were able to cover all the requirements. 

I learned a lot about the majors that my group studied. I am an undeclared major as of right now, and doing this presentation helped me look deeper into the majors that we presented, as well as a lot of the majors that other groups presented. One interesting major that was researched and presented by another group was Japanese. I though this major was very complex, and I learned a lot about what the actual requirements are, like traveling and living in the country of Japan as one. It was interesting to me to find out the depth of some of these majors, and definitely made me think more about my major of choice. 

I think that working in a group environment forces you to communicate, and communication is a great, and very necessary skill to have. Within my group, we had a lot of communication and that definitely helped us to make a better presentation. For example, one of us couldn't make a meeting that we had planned, so instead we all communicated with one another and scheduled another time that worked better for all of us. In the future group assignments, I hope to also have good communication with the members, and if for some reason we don't, then I will be doing whatever it takes to install good communication within my group members.