Comp Round-Up

So Class 2011's first comp has come to an end today. Finally. At this point in time, there should be lots of celebrations going on. Well...at least there is a group at the bar for sure!

So I didn't miss this "event" completely. I did what I could via the magics of the internet. Guess I didn't do that much compared to the rest of my team, but I tried.

Apparently, the presentation today wasn't as great as we'd hoped it would be. But to a certain extent, that was predictable, at least to me. Regardless, we all tried, and I know my team really tried their best these few days.

The bad...
(1) The finance part of things came under a bit of question, as I expected.
(2) Some parts were more complicated than it needed to be.
(3) Not everyone was fully satisfied with the final product, including me.
(4) There was a bit of internal conflict.

The good...
(1) We survived.
(2) I think we did fairly well.
(3) No major arguments.
(4) We tried our best.

On my part, being the "outsider" this time was kind of interesting, because I was able to have side conversations with everyone without the others knowing. In a sense, I think I saw a lot of things that the others didn't....

(1) Some people were being too bossy.
(2) Some people felt isolated.
(3) Not everyone agreed with the way things were handled.
(4) Poor communication.

It was kind of surprising that this happened. Because our team was made up of all the people that hang out regularly. But I guess when it comes to work, it doesn't work out the same way.

For me, being "away", there were some frustrations. But the thing that pissed me off the most was that for the last three days, despite being sick, I continuously offered to help, but 99% of the time, all but two people didn't even bother to reply.

Seriously, anybody that's worked with me before knows very well that I (1) know what I'm doing; (2) work my ass off; and (3) look out for everyone in my team. Although it's only been five months into the program, there are few people in the class who consistently want to work with me because they know I'll never let them down. So why in the world are you not letting me do stuff???

Regardless...

To my team......(although they'll never see this)......thank you for being so accommodating this week, and thank you for all the hard work you guys put in!......(And now we all get to start working on the AFC together....-_-'')

And a special thanks to Ms. M!.....who seems to be more concerned about my health and marks than I am, and who has gone out of her way to try and get the prof do give me the marks for this project.