Imagining the future

In class we saw a video called "The Power of Vision". The main idea of this video was that it is important to have a vision to be able to have success in the future. I agree with this because if you don't have a vision you can't make a effort to achieve your goal. While if you have a vision you can work hard to achieve what you want and beome successful.

With that said I have created a vision for my own future
1) To hold a high position in the Finance field.
2) Earn enough money to buy a really nice house and buy the nice cars that will be coming out in the future like the picture above. LOL
3) Travel the world - I want to visit several different countries particularly Europe and Asia
4)Getting my masters degree.


Accomplishing these goals that I have set will be difficult. Holding a high position in the Finance field will require me to put forward a lot of effort. I will be required to ask many questions and learn as much as possible in the workplace. I would need to gain experience and knowledge in the field to be able to advance in position. I think right now I'm off to a good start since I currently am interning at JP Morgan. As for my other goals like earning enough money to buy a nice house goes hand in hand with number one because it would require me to work hard at whatever job I have and be able to advance in levels and it would lead to me having a high position. The vision which I think which will be accomplished before any of the others is getting my masters degree. Nowadays there are many students going to college and getting degrees so I feel I need a masters to put me a step ahead of everyone else. Traveling to different countries is just a personal goal that I have. I just want to experience different cultures and learn about other countries. This vision is not going to be easy to accomplish but I will work hard to achieve and hopefully I will be successful in fulfilling this vision!

Decision making in a large group = Chaos

After our 1st midterm, In class we had an activity to decide what we were going to do for the next test. With about 80 or so students in the class this was easier said than done. There was complete chaos with people yelling at each other back and forth. During the activity I handled this conflict in two different ways; collaboration and avoidance. In the beginning of this activity I tried to collaborate with the other students to try to incorporate my ideas with the ideas of others. But it seemed like for the 1st ten minutes everyone was disagreeing with each other and nothing was being accomplished. Since collaboration wasn't working I decided to just use the avoidance method. I just sat back and hoped that my classmates would be able to get something done. I did this because I felt without me speaking it would be one less person to argue and it would allow for easier communication. Since now I know the results I would have chosen to divide the class into smaller groups first and then give suggestions from those groups. I think this would have been better because the groups could have communicated ideas first and figured out what they liked and didn't like and then they would all pass the ideas to the front. I think this way would have been much faster. It would have prevented people from the back of the room arguing with people in the front.

Bas-EGG-Ball

This was an interesting activity that we had to do, to drop a egg into a basket, without it cracking using 8 straws and some tape while dropping it with your arms straight while standing on a table. I think my group did well for step one. We wanted to make some sort of nest to protect the egg from cracking. Step 2 also wasn't a problem for us at all. We came up with several different ideas, and for many of them, we also came up with flaws. My team however bypassed Step 3 which is to generate alternative scenarios which may happen. One thing we forgot to discuss was how far out to stand on the table so we can get the egg in the basket without hitting the side of the basket, causing the egg to crack before it even goes in. So for the fourth step we just went along with our plan to create a little nest around the egg, I think we had well thought out plan. For the 5th step of implementation I was the person in my team that took the shot for 5 extra credit points, I don't think I was standing far enough on the edge of the table, so when I dropped the egg, it hit the side of the basket (the picture is a good representation of what happened to the egg) and the egg yolk splattered into the basket. So we got 0 points and lost the bas-EGG-ball game! I'm sure if we had the opportunity to do this again we would be well prepared. Overall I feel my team did a good job, even though we didn't get the points. We were able to communicate well and devise a strong plan. We could have been more effective if we thought about our task at hand more thoroughly by thinking about things that could have hand us back and how we would've handled them. But I still think we tried hard, and did very well.