Monday, March 31, 2008

Enough with the vision already

Vision... we have herd the word 12,000 times in the hlf hour video alone. i agree however in the importance of setting goals for ones self. i strongly believe that having goals gives us the perseverence to go on with our lives through all the things we hate. for me i have several goals, nothing to grand, but worth stiving for. my first goal is to make lots of money, typical of mopst people in college and those reading my blog, i want to have a good job in finance and learn the ins and outs of the business world. i want to have a diverse portfolio that brings in a 5-10% annual profit. my next goal is to have a wide array of assets and investments, aside from fancy shmancy cars whitch will only depreciate over time, i want a a few homes, maybe a condo, and sum summer retreats, basically ownership of land. my third goal is to have a family, a wife without a doubt preferably mute.- just kidding, that was unrealistic, but a wife and maybe 2, 3 kids. i want to be able to give my kids certain things that i never had, and hopefully raise them tio become successful, the goal of any parent. fourth i want to repay my parents for all their hard work in raising me and giving me the ability to live in the US, have a simple life and a great opportunnity to succeed. they gave up alot in their lives so that my sisiter and i could have a better life and i think that they deserve to be repayed. these goal though i may never achieve them all or to the full extent are the reason that i wake up in the morining. i honestly hate school, aside from this class-lol- but i have no choice but to come here because it is the action towards my vision. i cannot just sit at home and say i want to be succesful. to succeed i have to get up go to school study and try to get a good job. fortunately i dont go to school as an action with no reasononig or vision behind it, but i do try to make my visions happen. visions give us a reason to strive and are very imptortant in life. to make my dreams come true i cannot realy say anthing but to invest an education and time. i work hard though sometimes i fail, i guess we will just have to wait and see what the future holds.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Majority Rules/ 100% drools

this was a great class, and i think that we experienced a successful hour of group collabaration, i must say that although i agree with the 100% rule, majority should prevail, especially in a class of 85, and a situation where 80 will benefit. if we are given extra points to improve our grades we should take it and continue to work hard and improve. the whole process indeed was frustrating,and naturally ppl want wat benefits themselves best, however in this situation nobody suffers. we began by two students taking charge as mediators between the class and the prof. we proceeded to listening to everyone blurt out ideas in what was a compromise decision making attemp. everyone was equal, yes , even the self proclaimed leaders, and we all hared our thoughts until we came to one decision. the pressure was the lack of time, which seemed so little due to the large number of students who chose to voice theri oppinions. although towards the end, we managaed to come to a majority agreement, we did not have 100%, and could not have the final decision, these students though disagreed took the position of accomodaters, and agreed to vote with the majority, what these students did was realize how the extra points weremore important to their classmates over their oppinions and ethics towards a decision that wouldonly benefit them. i also feel that we had SORT OF COLLABRATION EXCEPT WE WERE MISSING THE multiple group insight, however the class as a whole is a group bargaining and negotiating. in conclusion it semes that within making one group decision requires variousways of handling conflict.