NCAA Division II Festival Bid Project

Working in a group is always both a struggle and more fulfilling than expected - the NCAA Division II Festival bid project was no exception.

When you work on a project by yourself the timetable is entirely up to you. Every decision from the font to the actual substance of the project is your choice. While this is helpful and often easier than working with a group it can also be limiting. Many of my group mates found creative resources for us to use as references when constructing our project and they also came up with answers to questions I hadn’t even thought about.

I like to be in control because when I am not I stress easily. Therefore, working in a group is often difficult for me, but my group helped answer questions I would not have been able to answer as easily on my own. We also all often weighed in on decisions. One aspect I personally appreciated about our group was that if one person floated an idea and another person disagreed, that second person came with another option. Often people will simply shoot down an idea and not off an alternative. Our group did a good job making sure that if one idea didn’t work there were more options to consider.

It’s always difficult to bring the different components constructed by different group members together and I feel this project was a good way to assess how that is done. Many different moving parts had to be put together to have one successful project.

And now for something completely different: this post is being uploaded courtesy of Alaska Airlines complimentary inflight wifi service while I am somewhere in the skies between Seattle and Oakland.