In this week’s lecture Rachel talked about collaborative working. It’s something we needed to do for PB4, and throughout our future careers. I personally like working in groups, sometimes it doesn’t always work out and it can be frustrating, but when it works it’s great. We began by creating a list of pro’s and con’s. I wasn’t surprised when the con’s list grew while the pro’s remained pretty empty, many things can go wrong – and I think it was best to get the negative stuff out of the way. After the con’s list we started working on the pro’s list. It grew just as fast until it matched size with the con’s list.

Rachel then briefly talked about how to make collaborative projects work through communication and problem solving. Although I had heard most of it before, and the foundation of the advise did seem like common sense, I think it was good to be reminded. In my three classes I had group project coming up, and being reminded of how to make it work took away some of the stress.