This was one of the last times that we could get extra credit. And oh boy did I want it. A whole 5 points on the final, which was already going to be easier than expected, meant a nice boost to my grade. As soon as I heard that the activity will be based around LEGOS, I was excited and worried at the same time. I loved LEGOS when I was younger and did hundreds of constructions with them. Our team started thinking of ways to get the points. We thought that we could each draw out as much of the construction as we could and memorize it. Then we decided to each focus on one area of the figure so that we can combine it all together.
Once we got the blocks, another member of my team went out for the first inspection. The rest of us were just sitting there waiting for him to come back. About 5 minutes later another member and I came closer to the door to wait for the inspector to come out and tell us what it looks like. The 2nd person went in and a few minutes later she came back and told me what to focus on. I had the responsibility of figuring out the back side of the figure. I went in and drew out the back side. At first I didn't notice that some of the colors were split into small 2 dot blocks, but fortunately i saw that in time. After coming out, I realized that I missed some aspects so I had to go back 2 times to look at the figure again. We were the 4th of 5th group to get our LEGOS. We immediately started working on out parts and a minute later we were done. Our drawings weren't very good because sometimes we couldn't figure out what was going on.
We were stuck at the very end. I knew that there had to be a space between the green and white blocks at the 2nd to the bottom level, but we couldn't figure out how to make it work. After several groups failed, we were anxious to finish. Out of nowhere I saw there were two green squares and if we took one out, it would work. So I took a square off and put the figure together and wallah! 5 POINTS!
Social Media and Political Participation
12 years ago
I thought this assignment was hilarious. My group was big and it made it difficult to work together on something so small and detailed. We almost had it but the group won right before we finished. Everyone did a better job at working together than they used to at the beginning of the course, so it seems like the blogging actually helped everyone to figure out what went wrong in other groups and how to improve this time. Lucky you, though! Good job on the 5 points!
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