Lucky to have a great team!

Ah the dreaded team assignment! 

Team assignments are always a learning experience and people tend to love them or hate them. Just like the black and white feelings people have towards them, they also tend to go really well or very badly.

When you enrol in a summer school paper via distance, the last thing you expect to be in the paper is team assignments. Finding out that half of the paper relied on team work was not an exciting time. How was I meant to join a group when I didn't know anyone? I live in the middle of nowhere, how was I meant to meet my team mates and what were they going to be like? However as soon as I began the team assignment, my worries were put at ease. Everyone in my group was friendly and seemed to want to do well. 

We immediately started working through what needed to be done and what our roles, opinions and ideas were. As a team we worked well together, meeting our deadlines and keeping on track. We easily made decisions, luckily we agreed on almost everything. On the occasional time we had different ideas we would take a vote to ensure the majority of the group were happy. 

Unfortunately, even with our hard-work and efficiency as a team, in the last week we realized our report may not have been going in the direction it needed to. As a team we had to make the hard decision between doing a lot of extra work to change it or handing it in the way we had it and possibly lose marks. We decided to hand it in the way it was, hoping for the best. Luckily a member of our team had time to somewhat edit the assignment to incorporate the parts we were missing. 

This assignment has been a good experience for me as I have been able to work with people I wouldn't usually have the chance to and learn new things from them. To my group, thank you for being such a great team, I highly appreciate all the work you have done. Hopefully we get a grade we have worked hard for.