My Group Project Analysis

Group projects at school are one of high schools most frustrating aspects for many students. Often, the teacher picks the groups and it never fails that you're stuck with someone very different from yourself. In my dual credit history class, the professor assigned us a very difficult project. We had to pretend that we were the United States government, and we had to come up with plans to solve the dust bowl, and the great depression and then present them to the class, who was in turn aloud to ask questions. I was a sore thumb in my group, big into the FFA and the agriculture world I had so many ideas to solve the dust bowl which in turn would help the great depression. The other girls in my group seemed less than interested, and their ideas were… well interesting to say the least. I was concerned with making laws requiring crop rotation, using tax money to help poor farmers in the midwest move to California to farm once more, and installing a second row of doors on buildings so …show more content…
They didn't care to listen to any ideas that I had, and were externally uninterested in my point that there would be no food in the midwest for the cattle to eat once we got there. This was a project that there were “no wrong or right answers”, but the answers at least had to make sense. If I was tearing holes in our own arguments there was obviously a problem. After a week of debating them daily over their ideas, they finally realized that some just didn't add up like it did in their heads. At that point we decided to be more considerate of each others opinions and ideas. We overcame our differences and used some of everyones ideas for our presentation and got one of the best grades in the class. Initially I felt very frustrated and nervous about it, but in the end I felt great about our project. My beginning feelings about my ideas remain the same, but my attitude towards team work and compromising was changed for the better after that