Class Responses - 07/01/18

First of all, it was actually alot of fun to play musical chairs again. But it was also interesting that we very quickly went into the social norms of the rules we thought were to be part of the game. With the only rule being that everyone needs there weight to be supported by the chair. It kind of sucked being the first one to be kicked out of the game, but it was also alot of fun to be able to watch others play, compete and some simply walk away and not even try.

Secondly, it was difficult to have an entire class discussion while mixed within a group of clumped up chairs. This may not actually be an insight from the actual discussion, but it is one that I thought was rather interesting. When we first began the discussion, a lot of people were sitting on the desk tops, and some leaning, with a few actually sitting in the seats. However, as the discussion progressed, and students began to release that we weren't going to organize the desks, they began to all slide down into the seats, and fewer and fewer were sitting on top. At the end, all but myself were sitting in the chairs. I just thought it was interesting that many of us seemed to think that we would reorganize the room before getting into a full-blown discussion, but as we realized that wasn't going to happen we gave in and sat down in the disorder.

Last and finally on the topic of the discussion, I had a difficult time trying to apply the lessons in disscussed in class to those of the Columbia Case Study. There may have been a simple problem underlying my difficulty. That being I may have been trying to look too deep into the case. The answer may have been on the surface. I just see the Columbia Case as a problem in the communication of the organization, and had people simply listened to others and taken the time to care about what they had to say, that most likely a solution could have been discovered prior to re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. Communication is the key!!