How People Handle Conflict?

After the test #1, Professor gave us a very good chance, if the whole class agree that we can do whatever we want to make better on our grade. This is the second experiment of making a decision. Unanimously adopted by the whole class, I think it's much harder than designing an egg protector. At that time, a very large question came to me:" How everyone agree the same idea? Is it impossible?" I was worried about it. I worried about we may have no chance when we just focus on the argument.

First, everyone tried to win their agreement. They tried their best to compete to win. But we knew that everyone had different grades on this test. Some people did poor on this test just because on the essay part, because of they're the second language students, they don't have enough time to write a such good essay. Some people who did well in this test, they just refused to change format. And some people didn't good at the multiple multiple choice questions, etc. Those conflict created a chaos situations. In that limited time, we began to panic just because we knew that if there's no compromise decision come out, we all have no chance to change anything on our grade. Since we have different idea, our leader calmed everyone down. She respected and wrote down the idea on the blackboard , then let us to vote for it. Finally, we all agree with drop the lowest grade and also get the extra credits.

Through this decision making experiment, we see the final decision looked benefit and fair to everyone. I wanna say, our leader did a very good job for us, if she didn't persuade us in the limited time, we all lost such a good chance. If she's not catch up the time, there's "no chance of winning". This task showed us in a very good way that how people handle conflict.

How to Drop an Egg Without Breaking It!

My group's egg failed at building an effective egg protector. Even though our egg is not the survivor, but we did follow the steps in the planning process. First, we read the definition, understood that we had limited material and limited time. Second, we estimated for what may happen when the egg falls. As we knew that the egg is breakable, we need to protect around it. At that time, we shared ideas of a solution, we choosed the action alternative most likely to accomplish our task. Some people cut the straws, some people ripped the tape, and one wrote down what we had designed and the names of our group members. After careful evaluation, we decided made some cross to support the egg. But unexpected, the straws too soft and the tape not sticky, the cross can not make it firm. Since we had that trouble, we had to modify the design, but also at that moment we start to panic due to the limited time. Finally, our plan failed. Overall, I think my group was effective in this task, even we didn't succeed. No matter this task we failed or succeed, we all had a very good experience, we learn from it.