Fallen Comrade

The egg and I became friends, but i knew our friendship was going to be short lived.

To some extent our group went through all the steps.

We didn’t define the goal, but we all understood it. The egg has to survive the fall. We also spent some time talking about what resources we had and how to best use them. A plan was drawn up and edited several times. We also selected the shortest person to do the drop.

There weren’t too many factors so from the start developing alternative strategies was simple enough, someone said why something wouldn’t work and the plan would be edited. Once we settled on the specific design of the contraption we decided who was going to be responsible for what once the supplies were given out, but it didn’t go further than that.

Once we already had the supplies though, there was a clear division of labor, even though it wasn’t pre-planned, i have to say it was carried out professionally. One person was writing up the procedure, two were creating the cushions out of straws, one was attaching them to the egg, i was tearing up tape to appropriate chunks. Once someone was done with their task, they would help the person next to them, and overall it was very smooth.

The plan was implement and evaluated (the egg was dropped and it didnt survive).


Something about this project just didn’t hit the spot for me. It just didn’t feel that involving, it was too simplistic. I mean with the amount of time we had, one class period it was perfect, but too many factors worked against it. The fact that it was either pass or fail, egg survives or doesn’t, it was hard to judge how well the planning worked, if there were multiple objectives you would see where the plan failed, were it didn’t. A single objective just didn’t reveal much about the plan. Plus there really wasn’t enough time to sit down and do a proper plan, not that it mattered though, an egg drop is rather simplistic and really could have been done with no planning. As I pointed out, even though we didn’t plan the division of labor, it still worked out as the process went on. Again it carried the point across but from a lot of my classes I get the feeling that everything is done just to say it was done. Like we are doing a presentation in finance… why? Just to say that we had somekind of presentation done and it potentially worked on our public speaking? That’s so silly. Half assed.

Not to say that our management class is half assed, no no, management is just too intensive and too broad to be studied like this, I feel like we fly past things so quick I don’t get all the flavor. Hmm, after a full day of work followed by a full day of classes I just realized I am tired and I am rambling on. Im getting new tires tomorrow, hope they fit. Gonna be sick, cant wait to see how much grip they will give me on the track!