As I begin my second blog ever, I decided to keep an online journal of our simulations class. This class is not an easy one to describe but to my understand this class is going to be a "game." A game of corporations and a government board that rules over the civilizations. This class is going to be a game of teams and learning how to work together. It is important that each corporation finds a way to work together to make a profit just as you would in the real world. Simulations class is one of the only classes I have taken that require us as a class to act as if we are in the real world. I feel as though this is why this class is going to benefit me more than some others. This class from the very beginning has been very stressful. Although, I am a person who gets stressed out very easily I feel as if this class is going to be a lot of work. We will take our test again on Tuesday, this will be the fourth time we are taking it. It is very frustrating but what we have learned is that we fail together as a class and do not want to leave anyone behind. We started with about half of the class failing the test which I was not one (I got a 65! just barely passing) The second test seven people failed which I was one of them. I was so disappointed in myself that I didn't do better than the first time but I found that the information was different on the test and I did not study as hard as I did for the first one. The third test I study really hard for an pulled off with a 83! I was so excited I passed because I worked so hard. Although I passed and many others did... One person did not and we all passed together or fail together and we still failed on the third test. So our teacher A.J. Walsh asked us to find out what we could do as a class to help everyone pass. We all just sat there and stared at her like we were dumbfounded or it was a questions we could not answer. People then began speaking up and asking when we could all get together and how many people we interested in studying together. As a class we then decided to meet on Monday night at 9pm in the library and then 9am Tuesday morning before the test to get in a quick study session as well. A.J. then asked us to take action so we assumed she meant actually go to these sessions but that is not what she meant she meant send out a reminder or email or take some action right then and there. So Sarah F in our class got up used the computer in the room and send out an email to everyone in the class through Web Ct reminding us of what times we were going to meet.
This class may be challenging this semester but I feel as though you do not get anything out of things coming easy in life :).
As A.J. says, " How you see the problem is the problem."
