Personal Narrative: My Collaboration With Individual Beliefs

It is always very hard to interact with people whose experiences or beliefs that differ from your own and it’s especially hard if you’re an introverted person who would rather just enjoy the comfort of working by themselves like myself. However, I have had to endure the undesirable decision to work with people who hold different beliefs and experiences than I do. There have been times where I have thoroughly enjoyed working with others; however, there have been times where I’ve wished that I could have worked by myself. In my junior year of high school, I had signed up for a class called AP Capstone Seminar that called for the students to collaborate with other individuals in the class to create a argumentative essay and present a presentation. Each member of a group of four had to develop a part of the essay that was thorough, credible, and had no distinct bias. Once each member put together their individual part in the essay and revised the information, we had to create a presentation that gave an overview of the essay. Initially, I was very apprehensive about collaborating together with a group of people that I had no prior knowledge of and I was worried that the others in my group would not pull their weight which could possibly end with a disastrous paper and presentation. There was this constant …show more content…
When I allowed myself to be open to my group member ideas, it allowed myself to think in different ways which pushed me to grow as student and as a person. Although there may a have been slight stumbles through the way, we always resolved the problem by talking it out and respecting each other's beliefs and experiences. The excessive worrying that I had initially seemed completely unnecessary and possibly overdramatic in a sense as the project ended in a