Monday, December 6, 2010

A Momentary Lapse of Reason

The reason for this title comes from my lapse of reason.  I once again decided to leave this project to the last minute.  Although this seems to be my MO which has worked seamlessly for the last few years, it does get me into trouble every now and then.  It is okay to leave one project to the last second but it is not okay to leave three projects to the last second.  This was a lesson I learned.  I left this project to its final seconds and boy did I cut it close.
This all started during the peer review process.  When we opened our laptops for the peer review, it came to my attention that I was the only one who posted blogs on the site.  Although we hadn't decided how many each member would post, I had nothing to do one night and decided to do a couple of posts.  I became nervous that the group we were paired with would tear apart our site, revealing the true lack of work put into it.  To my very pleasant surprise, the group had barely done any work themselves.  Coincidentally, my group had aspects that the other group lacked and vice versa.  This peer review process turned into a brain storming session.  Of course this group held the other popular topic in class, the Party Bus.  We brained stormed away and came off with a few good ideas.  We added them to our pages and then went our separate ways with the promise of a peer review in the very near future.
My group then started sorting out the work.  We agreed each member should complete 6 posts.  Others decided to add events, pictures and videos.
I added a couple videos and once again put the project on the back burner.  In leaving it to the last second, two of my other classes interfered.  I had left a grand total of three big projects due to the last milliseconds.  I had two papers, one which required me to analyze a very good yet confusing film Memento and one about the Dos Equis commercial.  I worked away Memento and moved onto Dos Equis.  I was distracted for a couple hours by the unplanned stop of a friend but I continued onwards shortly after their departure.  With Dos Equis completed, I slayed blog post after blog post until I was champion.  My happiness was short lived when I looked at my site and realized that only a couple people had done their work.  I then went on to finish my process blog.  We now converge with the present and I am currently hoping my group will get their work in.  I have no reason to doubt that they won't but what can I say I'm a worrier.  So lets hope that all the work gets done but at least mine is in so I've done all I can.  Goodnight and goodluck.  

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