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Very novel idea, get a whole class of 80 people to decide on one thing. Pure genius. At first I was accommodating, I received a high grade on the test and decided that it should be up to other people to decide things. Logically I would be fine regardless of what the class decided. I did well on a test and everybody wanted to make the next test easier, so if the next test became easier I would do well again.

Then I started to avoid the situation. I was a bit angry. The only way the next test would get easier is if we all agreed on something together, but things weren’t moving towards an agreement. Actually as time went on peoples ideas got more imaginative, thus more unique, which bred even more disagreement. I folded my arms and decided I would sit it out in the eye of the storm. Who cares, what we decided, either way Ill do fine.

By the end I was prodded into action. It seemed to me that a few people were missing the point, asking for too little, so I spoke a few times. But I still tried to avoid the situation. Im very much against true or false questions, but decided not to speak out, because it would just make things more difficult.

Im at work right now, in a datacenter, sitting on the floor surrounding by Dell Poweredge 1950 servers. I think its ironic that im doing well in management class, but when it comes to management in every day things, like work, friends, school, im failing pretty badly.

Concerning doing things differently, I would probably try to get everyone on the same page first. Explain how much we could ask for, get everyone to think in terms of a lot, not a little. Next I would have divided the discussion into 3 parts. First how the next test will look, next how the tests will count, and lastly extra credit. It seems that everyone was talking about everything, one person suggesting extra credit, the other true or false questions. And lastly I would ask who is against something to raise their hands, its easier to spot people that way.