Management poem

This class was an interesting way to learn about management
with many different types of assignments
Like dropping eggs from up high
or the survival scenario when your plane drops from the sky
Then there were ideas for jello
or building something made of lego
But they weren't really legos they were Mega Bloks
at least I had fun while waiting out the clock
The things we would do for some extra credit on the test
heres a try: professor Kurpis you're the best
Also here I am standing in front of class
readig this poem like an ass

Blogging

This was the first blog that I ever made and to be honest, I never really liked the idea of blogs, so I didn't really enjoy it. However, I thought it was interesting assignment to do for class. It definitely fits into this class more than others because there is a lot more communication, group work, and the class is more social.

DISC

For the leader/management test, my results came back as a C and high D. I was very surprised because I think the results were accurate. I think the main thing from C that is true with me is that I don't like to make decisions unless I understand all the facts. If I wish I were another type it would have to be D because they are the most likely candidates to be leaders. However I don't think that I can switch types. For the winter survival scenario, I think you would definitely want a D in that group because they will act as a leader and be able to handle difficult situations.

Visions...

One of the main visions for me is to finish school and get a decent well paying job (hopefully one that I would enjoy). I think to achieve this, doing well in school is not quite enough. Job experience is very important and I am going to look for an internship for next semester while I continue school. Another vision that I have is to go travel as much as I possibly can. This was actually something that just came up recently because when I was younger, I never really cared about traveling and going on trips, but now I know better. You can experience so much while traveling and its definitely something I would like to do as much as I can. For spring break recently, I went to LA and Vegas and there are already plans to go back! Something that I really want to do is play in different poker tournaments that are hosted all over the world, but to do this would require a lot of money. The professor's blog assignment said don't put winning the lotto as one of the visions you have because that is something you can't control, but one of my visions is winning a big poker tournament. Even though there is a lot of luck involved, this is something I have control over as opposed to playing the lotto. The odds are much better!

Decision Making

For the class where the class was deciding what to do about the first exam, it got pretty chaotic and I didn't really get into it. So I guess the way I used to handle conflict was avoidance. I chose this method because there were a lot of people in the class that were really outspoken and I agreed with their ideas. If there was something that wasn't mentioned or something I didn't agree with, then I would've said something and my way of dealing with it would've been to compete to win. The end result was good for the class overall. We got most of the things we wanted that were brought up during the class. Props to Teddy who I thought did a great job in facilitating the class. Another thing I would like to add is that I thought this class was interesting because early on, I figured that it was probably part of the lesson plan and was curious to see how it would plan out. A very hard test, leading to this decision making class to allow us to work together and get our grades up from the first test. After the class was over my assumptions were proved correct when the professor announced that it was all part of the lesson plan.

Eggs-tra credit

So I definitely got a lot of catching up to do for the blogging assignment and I'll start here with the egg assignment. My team was surprisingly one of the ones that actually got the extra credit because by some miracle our egg didn't break when we dropped it. My team did go through all of the steps in the planning process and did well up until step 5. That is where we had our problems. We had a hard time implementing the plan we had come up with and ran out of time towards the end to evaluate our results. The results were not something we were happy about, but we dropped the egg anyways. To our team's surprise the egg didn't break and we were all pretty excited about getting the extra points. I guess we got a break!