Topic

After some discussion with my classmates around me, I have realized that this project is not limited to just an outside community. At first, I looked at the project from the perspective of fixing something from a neighborhood or a community in need and although this maybe a good idea, our own school is in need as well! Although Roosevelt University emphasizes social justice, it lacks in several different areas that are crucial to a student's education. Our small group brought up several important aspects that are being cut such as grants, workstudy, or the fact that it costs to print. Since these topics are essential to a student's education, I would love to be a part of a group that wants to enhance/develop a group to help change people's minds about the cost of our education! Of course these are not the only problems we have at school, so if anyone has any other opinions, I am open to those as well :)
Regarding the role we will play in our groups, I would have to say that I am a negotiator or a supporter. As Mr. Walcher said, everyone has the potiental to be a leader and although I have fulfilled that role in the past, I am open to helping my group in whatever way possible :)

Group Projects

Honestly, group projects have never been my cup of tea. I love hearing other people's opinions because not only will these individuals help shape my thoughts, but because different perspectives brings in more, well-rounded information on a topic since not everyone thinks the same. Nevertheless, working with other classmates can be a negative depending on who you are working with. My past experiences have sadly left me disliking working with groups because the other members never contributed any type of information useful to the assignment. Classmates can be highly helpful or useless in the sense that they sit back and depend on the "smart" student to complete the task. This is exactly the environment I have endured several times over throughout my years in school. Of course, more recently in college, my group projects have changed my view on working with others because professors have started giving points and grading groups based on individual work and group work. This method makes students provide more of their insight which equals out the amount of work on the project.
After hearing my Libs professor introduce our final project yesterday, it gave me both a feeling of excitement and a bit of fear because this project is like nothing I've done before. While our group projects in the past have been about creating a project based off a chapter in a book or an object/subject, this is pertaining to actually communicating to another individual about the topic of our choosing; I have never done this before. So overall, even though I have had bad experiences in the past, I am open minded to a new type of project with a new group.