3/11/2021

Another week another journal entry! So far this week, we started brainstorming for our memo project, which is the first group project I’ve done in a while. Ever since the pandemic, I haven’t really done any group work because it’s so difficult with online schooling. In high school, I used to hate group work. Me and my teammates were just never on the same page and it always felt like I did more work, and yet we all got the same grade which wasn’t fair. I was always the lone wolf, and felt like I could never trust my teammates to handle anything in the project, otherwise it would all fall apart. But it’s different now that I’m in college. I feel like I could trust my teammates more, and also really love the fact that we each get our own grade, so that my grade doesn’t depend on the work of my teammates. I used to really dislike that because I ended up doing all the work, and we all got the same grade. However, I actually miss the groupwork now, because it’s been so long. I miss discussing topics and playing devil’s advocate and bringing multiple points of view to a specific subject. It’s different now because we can’t really meet up and discuss in person, but there’s still a lot of means of communication and it’s not really an issue. I’m looking forward to working on this project with my team, because teamwork is a skill that I really need to work on. It’s so essential in pretty much every job, and if I can’t work with a team, then I just won’t be able to succeed. I’m hoping to learn a lot from this project, about both engineering and teamwork. But that’s all for now I’ll be back next week!