MIT Blackjack Team

acceptable level. In life you must also learn the basics. You must establish what life is, what it means to you and want you from it. Basketball is a team sport, which means it requires contribution and cooperation from every member in order to play well and win. Everyone must focus, work together and fulfill their individual roles for the common good of the team. Not only was basketball teaching me how to act after a game, but teaching me life lessons. I believe that life isn’t fair, and I…

about hearing feedback, helping to work through the inevitable difficult conversations we would face. We then compared the team processes, as outlined in our contract, to our descriptive patterns of interaction and identified the necessary improvements. Finally, we highlighted each team member’s positive contributions and outlined new opportunities for individual improvement. TEAM MISSION AND CULTURE We, the members of Chester F73524, believe that we have successfully upheld our common purpose…

Sometimes friends become similar to a family. One of the best things I have ever done was sign up for a local soccer team. I was a genuinely shy kid. However, I loved (and still love) soccer. What I didn't know at the time was how attached I would become to my team and how much teamwork mattered. To start, I was really excited when my parents told me that they were signing me up for soccer but I was a little nervous. I thought about what the other kids would think about me. Would they think…

Porterville High School frosh-off basketball team. I wasn't the best one on the team, but I did my part. I was always intimidated by all the other girls on the team, this intimidation was controlling me, and it wasn't allowing me to be the person, and player I truly was. I was never loud, rough, nor did I ever play dirty so it came as a big surprise when I got into a fight with another player. It was against our rivals the Moanche High School girls basketball team, so the game was already…

the first and second rounds of playoffs, we knocked out a first seeded team (whom we had lost to during our regular season) and a fifth seeded team. For both of these teams, we had a desire to win. We knew we could, we just had to execute it. And we did. We won both of those games, and we went on to the Southern Final. At the Southern Final game, we knew what we had to do to win. We had to work as a unit, outrun the other team, and out work them. Unfortunately, we didn’t. We didn’t work as a…

to coach Tom on time management, job expectations, and determining if he needs more training. Toxic behaviors they are exhibiting The toxic behaviors that Tom is exhibiting is his ability to think beyond himself and think about the people on his team, his customers, and the company. He also fails to ask when he clearly needs help figuring out what his job duties entail. Tom often has excuses about why he cannot give his best in his job. Tom does not complete reports or projects on time, he…

Introduced to the FIRST Robotics Competition Team 3102 in sixth grade by my teacher, I became hooked on the program’s emphasis on improving technology education since day one. I wanted to join a program where the most sought-after award is more important than the first place trophy. In fact, the Chairman’s award, which recognizes the team that successfully develops a program aligning with FIRST’s core values of furthering science and technology education, is the most prestigious honor that can…

Candidate Garnica delivered a five paragraph order that lacked information and used filler words while briefing. She maintained good eye contact with the members of her team and was confident in her delivery. SNC failed to brief any of the "admin and logistics" and "command and signal" paragraphs. Although Candidate Garnica briefed a scheme of maneuver during the brief, it was obvious that she had not created an actual plan before beginning the execution. There was no clear transition between…

competitive. In middle school, we had tryouts, which I wasn’t use to before. Then we were split into two teams: A Team and B Team. When you look at the teams and think, A Team has to stand for the best players, while B Team is the bad players. No, that is not what that means at all. It just means that the players on the A Team had a greater skill level of basketball than the players on the B Team. Therefore, as I entered high school, I knew I wanted to…

When I was 14, I struggled on my soccer team, so I got private sessions with another coach twice a week. I would go out and practice and work over and over again. These trainings were painfully boring, but my coach would simply ask me to do drills over, pointing out mistakes I made as I went. I nearly quit. Towards the end of the season, the C team coach, someone who I didn't know at all, came up and asked me to try playing with him for a game or two. During the games, I started out feeling…