Of teams and team work.....

I have been having some novel experiences since I have landed up at this place.For the first time in my life I am facing surprise quizzes,projects ,assignments and presentations.But the most enjoyable of all these experiences has been working in a team to create an analysis of the movie GUIDE for our Behavioural Sciences project.

Frankly when I was put into this team of 11 people almost 2 months ago now, I won't say that I was feeling very happy about what I would be doing with a bunch of guys I did not know.Also I thought that 11 is too large a number for a presentation.The group hardly met over the first 1 and a half month.We did meet once for deciding the movie where I am not sure how we reached a consensus on GUIDE which I had no idea about as I had not seen it.

Anyway this project was to contribute 20% to our overall grade so we finall decided to meet up like a week before the presentation.As we started to get to know each other better,I realized that these guys were a bunch of very talented people and I slowly started enjoying all the meetings that we used to have.We decided that we wanted to do a narrative intermingled with a role play.Slowly over the due course of meetings we started completing the content and finally today we did 2 dry runs minutes before the presentations were to begin.Our presentation took place today.And I would like to think that we did well.

You know this experience made me realize a few things about myself.None more important than the realization that I could be a part of groups and could contribute well.I had always thought of myself as a pretty individualistic guy and the one team experience I had had acdemically before this was not so great.But I must say that I enjoyed the last week spent working on the project a lot.I know this place will give me a lot of other opportunities to work in teams and now I really look forward to them.