Decision Debriefing on the class

As a student in Baruch I never encountered a professor that allowed the test to be graded and weighed by the students. Professor Kurpis was more than generous in giving us the options. I picked the accomidation method in dealing with this problem in class. I recieved a very high grade, and no matter what was going to happen I knew that the decision would not hurt my grade. Before the option of dropping and curving was introduced I was a strong supporter of the curve. The idea that students do better on the second test is something new to me. From experience second test are harder and the mean usually is lower. So by droping this grade a person really does no good. A curve helps those students that worked hard and did not do so great. However, for the people that completely failed I believe nothing would have helped. Whether you curve or drop the first test, unless you change the way you study for the test or start studying you are not going to do good in the class. After the class came to it's decision I thought it was the right decision. It helped everyone and hurt no one. I am compettitive, but a fellow classmate getting a good grade does not affect me negatively. After everything that happened in the class I would not choose any other way of dealing with the situation. The issue of changing the grade or it's weight was not something that I really benefited from. Instead of a 99 I have a 100. I believe that speaking for other people and trying to make a decision in favor of those who will benefit from the decision is the best way. That's why I was mad at the people that went against the greater good of the class.

The Planning problem in the egg experiment

I felt that my group did a pretty good job defining our goals for the task at hand. We knew what we needed to do and created a design that should solved the problem. However when it came to step two we did not do such a good job. We have not asked for team members strenths when decide who will do what once the 10 minute time limit starts. I believe that this might have been our weakness as a team. We also did not design any alternatives to our plan. We felt confident that if executed we would have succeded in our task. We did however design a tactical plan. We created a design that would have held up if the execution stage would have went nicely. Step five is where the biggest problems came in. When it came time to execute the plan, people started diverting from the original plan and this created total chaos. The time limit played a big role in our inability as a team to finish the task. We did terrible in our lack of progress achieving the plan. I think we could have done better if we stuck to the plan and better designate people's involvment in the plan. We definetly needed an alternative plan that was simpler and faster to do.