Decision Time

Our first class after the midterm, Professor Kurpis gave us an activity on how to decide what to do with our midterm grade. At first I didn’t expect the decision making process to be so difficult. I assumed that nearly all the students would want their lowest grade to be dropped, but that wasn’t the case at first. Many of the students had completely different ideas and I thought compromise would never happen because the huge differences between ideas. Everyone in class seemed to compete for their idea to win, which includes me. I wanted everyone to agree to my idea, which was dropping the lowest grade.

The most difficult aspect of the decision making process is getting 100% approval of an idea because everyone has their own ideas and it is difficult to combine them, especially when people are screaming out ideas. Most of the students participated in giving out ideas, but it wasn’t so organized because everyone was screaming out ideas. I think if we all took some time to first think of the best solutions the whole process would have worked out better. We would have saved more time in the beginning, so when deciding what to do with the next midterm we would have had more time instead of coming to a rash decision. I was satisfied with the decision that we came up with in the end, but I thought there could have been a better way to come to the decision.