Decisons Decisons

This past Monday’s class was just as chaotic and crazy as the egg drop class we had. It started out great; we had one person in front of the class, with some leadership capabilities, leading the class in a somewhat organized class discussion. This leader took on the “compromise” method. He was more of a mediator then anything else, and didn’t put his input into what was going on. He listened and tried basically lead the class in one collective direction. I personally took the stance of the “accommodation” method. Once I saw that we would have a curve, it placed me in a position where I didn’t have to worry much about what was going to happen next. From there on I knew I basically achieved what I wanted from the discussion, so I decided to just sit there and let everyone else argue it out amongst themselves. As for my classmates, I saw a variation of different methods that they applied. Some took on the same accommodation stance as I did. Others went into avoidance; they neither participated nor listened to what was going on. This is something that really bothered me because when it came time to vote, they didn’t know what the class had come up with nor understand it. When a 99 percent majority vote in one direction came down to one person who wasn’t listening at all to what we were voting on, and instead of just raising their hand, they have the audacity to argue something they obviously know nothing about, it gets annoying. In the beginning of the class as soon as we were given the time to discuss, the person with the highest grade in the class stood up, not only as the first leader, but the person with the best idea. He said that we should break up into small groups and then have leaders of those small groups present the ideas we came up with. This idea was what I thought at the time would have been the best and most efficient idea. Unfortunately, the class shot him down right away, and he went into accommodation as well.