The Face-Off Day
Well, after failing to make an agreement for them to change their presentation topic (read post on “Black Cat and Way of Life”), it has come to this day, the presentation day where we must face-off and use as many means necessary to edge out the other team from the competition. When we arrived, another team was already prepared to present, and my teammates told me to rush to the front and connect the laptop to the projector as soon as the first team finished. Since we both present the same topic, they believe that the first team to present will get a definite edge, as the other team can’t speak the same way as we do, lest they will get lower grades for no new ideas.
Actually, with “that old lady” in the team, I was afraid if I do that, it will create a ruckus in the class as she’s the type that will not give up that easily, and I was afraid I would not be able to restrain myself properly from anger and physical attacks if that really happens. Those assault images are already playing in my mind though, so if she really tried to go against me, who knows what might have happened. As expected, as soon as the first team finished, two of they team started to walk to the front, but I ignored them and connected my laptop to the projector as soon as possible while calling my teammates to go to the front of the class. I was a bit surprised (and relaxed) to find out that they actually stayed back and didn’t wish to fight against us for the presentation slot and finally went on to take slot #4, but that’s okay and that’s good for us. Maybe the relationship between our teams will be bad after this, as I’ve already lost several friends in that team (they don’t want to talk to me again), but that’s a price to pay, can’t really take all sides in life, eh?
Anyway, the presentation itself went smooth for our team. We tried to make the presentation fun with storytelling and a neat video, the class laughed a bit when we presentate, so I guess we succeeded in entertaining them, and my team feels that overall it was a job well done. The other team also presented nicely, focusing on a different aspect instead. While our team tried to simplify things, chose to balance things, explain things in a nice and simple manner and didn’t really go to the depth (since this is an MBA class anyway not MIT), they went on to focus on the examples and current uses which was like 15 items or so, went on with naming the company and the likes. While that is good, I feel that they should have used a more general approach, like “explain how it is used” rather than “who uses it for this and that”. That’s my opinion anyway as my team used that approach and it went nicely for us.
Other teams have started to hate the old lady. She asked nonsense questions to team #3, which was also our friends’ team. During the break they stated how pointless are her questions and statements, somewhat trying to look intelligent and up-to-date with the world but most oftenly clueless and miss the point. Like asking things about the U.S. government when it’s actually not the proper question to ask to team #3. Good thing they didn’t get angry and answered her with “Why don’t you go ask the U.S. government instead, ma’am?? We’re here to discuss the technology and yes, EVERY technology have their weaknesses!”
Well, what is over is over. I’m happy with my current team and I hope I will be able to stick with them in the next classes, unlike my team who dumped me as soon as the previous class was over. I hope there won’t be another battle like this in the future… it’s tiring you know. Let’s try to also finish that Business Plan assignment then, we got only 1 week left and we haven’t even started. It is for 50% grades so if we screw up on that one, we can say goodbye on our “pass” grade. Let’s hope we won’t fail anything this semester…
