Case Comp #1

Last week, from Wednesday to Friday, was the first case comp of the term.

Going in to this, I was a little worried. Four of the people in the group were people that I had never worked with before. Knowing that these four people are quite opposite from me personality-wise, I wasn't so sure that things would run smoothly.

Wednesday:
To start off, four people were late. -_-''  Having four extremely loud people in the group was slightly overwhelming for me.  For most of the afternoon, we had some heated discussions (arguments?!) about how we were going to approach the case.  One person, T, really started to piss me off, because he would just cut people off and talk over them.  Luckily, we had N who was just as loud and somehow was able to take down T!  The day was pretty productive.  Except I really didn't think we should have gone out for dinner considering how pressed for time we were.  Ended up staying on campus until 1:30am.

Thursday:
Again, most people were late. -_-''  That really annoys me because I live the furthest away and I can manage to be on time.  So how come other people can't?!  Slapped together a powerpoint presentation just in time for the 4pm deadline.  It was quite funny because you see all 60+ people in our class running around like mad trying to finish everything.  It was quite intense for us because there were some technical problems just when we were about to submit.  I was assigned the accounting part for the presentation.  That worked out great for me because I am most confident in presenting that part.  The other finance stuff is just not my strength.  We ended up practicing the presentation until 12am.  It still wasn't quite up to par, but we all needed rest.  (Again we went out for dinner, along with people from some other groups.  I really wished we could have skipped that and saved 2 hours.)

Friday:
Presentation at 9:30am.  We were the third group.  I think the presentation was much better than any of our practice rounds.  As expected, Mr. V asked a lot of questions.  Unfortunately, it was all focused on a particular slide and resulted in one person answering all the questions.  That's not a good thing for us in terms of the teamwork marks, but I think we gave good answers.  Surprisingly, I.W. did not shoot any questions at my accounting part.  That was good, because, honestly, I felt there were some things that we should have discussed, but didn't.

Overall, I think everything worked out a lot better and easier than I expected.  Everyone was quite knowledgeable, and, luckily for us, both me and N were already quite familiar with what was going on in the industry.  Why? haha...because it was the pharmaceutical industry!

Good job, team!  Can't wait to find out the results.

Round 2 in two weeks.

(Side note:  I'm very grateful that quite a few people offered to let me spend the night at their place.  But in the end, I didn't accept any of the offers.  I guess after a day of being 'trapped' in the room with my group, I just really need some time alone, both to clear my mind and think about the case more clearly, and just to have some down time.  I know.  I'm not the most sociable person.)