week 12 blog

In my econ class that I am taking, we are required to do group projects periodically. There are supposed to be five to six people in each group and my group had three people. This made the workload for each person in my group quite a bit more than what it was intended to be. Also, one of my two group members had a tendency of showing up to class once a week, if that. This made even more work for me and my other group member which resulted in more of a negative experience than a positive one. My partner and I decided to merge with another group in the class who was having a similar problem; thinking our workload would decrease, I then realized that I was the only one out of four people who even had a slight understanding of how economics actually worked. When working with a group I am always concerned about whether or not the other people are going to put forth as much effort as me. There are benefits of working with other people in the sense that it does divide up the workload so one person is not responsible for everything. Other group members can also bring in different viewpoints and perspectives that one person alone may not have thought of.