Post 3: Reflections

This week in another class I found myself relfecting on some of the things that we have been learning about in Com320. In this other class, four other group members and myself are responsible for doing our own research, then we are tying it all together into one big paper. We are all doing our part to work towards a common goal. Well for a couple people in a group, this seems to be a problem. They are not pulling their weight. This is frustrating the rest of us in the group, as the deadline for the paper is approaching quickly. Given the theories that we have learned in class about conflict, negotiation, and resolution, we were able to meet last evening to discuss the problem. We were able to calmly discuss without conflict, negotiate until we found our solution, and worked together as a team to try to finish our project. We do not feel that we will have any more problems with people slacking and we hope that our research and our paper is done well and turned in on time.
It is instances like these that make me thankful that our Com320 group works well together and gets things done without somebody dragging our group down. We are now into week three of our service learning project. We have our plan of action approved, and our next step will be working on advertisement and getting our booth set up.

Andrew Ferrel