Stranded on the Moon!

This week we did an activity in class that dealt with decision making skills in our group. The scenario was to imagine that you had been stranded on the moon and had to get back to the mother ship. We had a list of fifteen supplies and had to arrange the supplies from the most important to the least important. Then we would compare our individual and group answers against the real answers. By myself I found it easy to decide, because I just thought about myself and no one else's life. I think in many situations it is easier to make a decision when you are not responsible for others. This plays into my real life as well because I am married. Now that I am married the decisions that I make on a daily basis do not only effect what I do but also my wife. It makes me think twice before deciding to do or not to do something. I always keep in mind how this will effect my wife. As a group it was interesting to hear every ones take on what was important to them in terms of the supply list. We had a lot of things in common, but we did have to use consensus on a couple of items in order to rank it appropriately. I believe that getting everyone to agree on a specific idea is ideal, but does not always happen. When it does not happen I tend to lean towards a majority rule decision. I know that this leaves some people out, but I have been on both sides of majority rule decision and that is just part of life. Part of growing up and being a responsible adult is being okay with not always getting things your way. You have to be able to accept new ideas and just move forward.

Our group project is coming along, and we actually kind of took it easy this week. We did not have any deadlines that we needed to meet so we did not see a need to really work on anything. Thanks goes out to David for getting our spot in Stewart Center locked down, and to Jasmine for helping us out with that. We have planned to meet sometime next week to prepare our flyers so that they are ready to be posted a week before our event. It was a good week, but I think that fall break showed me how tired I am and that I am still trying to get back into the swing of things after the break.

Zach Myers