Thinking+interdependently


 * //Thinking interdependently//** - Some people have underdeveloped social skill and struggle to work in groups. They seem unable to contribute fully in group situations and either let someone else do all the work or they hog all the work. To work in a group, you have to be willing and open to feedback, you have to be willing to learn and grow and you have to willing to give up an idea and work with someone else’s. Take care of each other. Share your energies with the group.



To work/think interdependently, one must have courage to speak up and to tell the rest of the group one's ideas and opinions. Sometimes, I'm more comfortable around a person who I'm more familiar with, so I tend to work with her in experiments and projects. For example, for the experiments, I worked with Megan (and only Megan) everytime. I found that I was more comfortable to tell her what I thought, what was wrong with our experiment and how we need to modify it, and was more comfortable to let her tell me what she thought. From the kinetics experiment to the acids and bases experiment, I only worked with Megan. As I had more opportunities to work with her, I was getting more and more willing and open to feedback, sharing work, and giving my opinion. While designing the experiment, we would share our ideas of how do do the investigation and the method. Then we would split up the jobs, like I would type up the aim, hypothesis, and data collection while Megan worked on method and evaluation. This way, we would get an equal amount of work. Through each lab write up, I was getting more and more willing to listen to her idea and work with that idea instead of selfishly telling her to work with my idea. By collaborating better and better, as a result, the experiment lab write up got better each time. I would say that my "social skills" are not that bad and that I'm not struggling in working in groups. However, I still need to improve on working with not just the person who sits next to me during class, but with the rest of the class members. I find that I'm more shy and I don't dare to speak up to tell the others my ideas and my answers (although they are the right ones).

//No one must feel alone, cut off, for that is when you do not make it. Willie Unsoeld, Mountain climber//