Final Projects in Communication "Impress Me"

This was my professors final project in our small group class. “Impress me.” Not only do I have other classes, but now one of my classes gives me an assignment and NOBODY knows what it is... not even him! How did this turn out? Well, it didn’t. Let me explain.

After MANY ideas got thrown around, my group decided we would post signs from our professors’ house to the classroom telling him about how much we loved our semester in his class. (A pervious assignment included a meal at his house, see my Girls Just Wanna Have Fun blog, so we knew he lived only across the street.) To accomplish this task we decided to meet at school at 6AM the day the project was due. This was the first of our many mistakes. Our Morning:

6:00 AM: One of our group members forgot their part of the signs, another member did the wrong part, and yet another member would not wake up no matter how many times we called. We had no Markers and no paper!

6:15 AM: Borrow supplies from the Herrington Patriot Center to make our missing portions of our project.

6:30 AM: Head back to our get-away-vehicle.

6:35 AM: Our missing group member finally wakes up.

6:40 AM: The stapler newly purchased for this project does not work!

6:45 AM: We remember our professor has a dog after he chases us out of the yard.

7:00 AM: We split up one group to get a camera and one group to run and get Duct Tape from their house.

7:05 AM: Sign hanging officially begins

7:15 AM: Camera Dies

7:20 AM: We run out of Duct Tape

7:25 AM: We resume sign hanging only to find out all of the signs in our professors neighborhood has been taken down by his wonderful neighbors.

7:30 AM: Signs at the school begin getting taken down (we still aren't sure who did that!).

7:45 AM: Go get doughnuts to bribe class/professor.

8:00 AM: Begin PowerPoint on what not to do for Final Project.

9:00 AM: Everyone laughs at our disastrous project.

10:00 AM: We are left with 12 doughnuts which we must give away to random people around campus.

MY LIFE IS A JOKE! Seriously, after a morning like this what can you do but laugh? I think our professor ultimately understood and we expect gracious grading, but could an assignment have gone worse? We did learn a lot about communicating in small groups and how hard it is. Maybe that's what he intended was to have it explode in our faces and remind us of how hard you have to work at communicating! Either way, it’s only the beginning of finals so lets see what else happens.

This is two of our final signs that were hung!