Experience with my group project Working with my group on the project gave me the opportunity to not only understand and learn the culture of group work, but also to understand more about my group members or classmates. Despite some difficulties and discomforts, I thought this was a great learning process that I had never had in my life. Our project was related to the process of discovering the average life of a college student through the ways he/she would go to get rich, which was an interesting topic for me. At first, my group was hesitant between this topic and another sports-related topic; however, we decided to opt for the first due to its close connection with American culture and student life. Getting rich was the economic ambition of many people and I wanted to know how it would be viewed from scientific and social aspects. After doing the project, I learned that it was difficult to conduct interviews and surveys without asking leading questions. My group initially started some interviews with open-ended questions and the variation in responses was quite wide. Then, we narrowed down the answers by changing the questions to multiple choices; however, this could result in biased responses if our sample was too small. The experience of working with my group was fun and positive when my group members came to class or had in-person meetings after class. I remembered that there were two or three times when I had the chance to discuss the project with the whole group and I really enjoyed those discussions. Kevin pointed out some good ideas for our project when he went to class. Mathew usually went to class and argued with me. He also spent his time on Thanksgiving doing statistics for our... medium of paper... a way to communicate with others and get them to listen to some of my ideas. For example, the idea of presenting the song at the beginning of our presentation was strongly disagreed with at the beginning, and I would have had no chance to present it if my group members had gone to class to discuss the project on the day we were allowed to do it. make our final decisions. Doing the group project gave me the opportunity not only to learn about the topic my group chose, but also to interact with others during interviews and group work. This process helped me understand and experience the real-life work environment and prepare for my future career. The project also reinforced something I considered important in my life: I couldn't judge people based on my values; sometimes I had to put myself in someone's position and context to understand them and their behaviors.
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