Experience With My Group Project

Experience with My Group Project

Working with my group for the project gave me a chance not only to understand and learn the group working culture, but also to understand more about my group members or my classmates. Despite some difficulties and discomfort, I thought this was a great learning process that I had ever had in my life.

Our project was related to the process of discover an average life of a college student through the ways he/she would do to become rich, which was an interesting topic for me. At first, my group was reluctant between this topic and another topic which was related to sports; however, we decided to go with the first one because of its close relationship with the American culture and with a student’s life. Getting rich was the economic ambition of many people, and I wanted to learn how it would be viewed from social scientific aspects. After doing the project, I learned that it was difficult to conduct interview and survey without asking leading questions. My group firstly started some interviews with open-answer questions, and the variation of the answers was quite large. Then, we narrowed down the answers by changing the questions to multiple choices; however, this might result in biased answers if our sample was too small.

The experience when working with my group was fun and good when my group members came to class or had in-person meetings after class. I remembered there were two or three times I had the chances to discuss the project with the whole group, and I really appreciated those discussions. Kevin pointed out some good ideas for our project when he went to class. Mathew usually went to class and had discussion with me. He also spent his time on Thanksgiving Day to do the statistics for our ...

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...t way to communicate with others and persuade them to listen to some of my ideas. For examples, the idea to present the song at the beginning of our presentation was strongly disagreed at first place, and I would have no chance to present it if my group members did go to class to discussion the project on the day we were allowed to make our final decisions.

Doing the group project gave me an opportunity not only to learn about the topic that my group chose, but also have interactions with others when doing interviews and group work. This process helped me understand and experience real life’s working environment and prepare for my future career. The project also strengthened a thing that I considered important in my life: I could not judge people by my own values; sometimes, I had to put myself into one’s position and context to understand them and their behaviors.