When I first heard about the project, I was unsure about it since I had no idea what it was about. Then we did a bunch of writing assignments, which I didn’t really like, but we did them anyway. In fact, I think that they helped us get used to writing formally. Back then, everything was rather vague. All we were doing was writing assignments so the class wasn’t very keen on continuing with TIG. In the end, it turned out to be better than we thought.
Later on in the year, we were finally put into groups of 3 or 4. Some of us would say that it was unfortunate we didn’t get to choose our groups, but that was a good thing because normally we would choose our friends then no work would get done. The first thing we had to do was to find information. I was quite good at searching for facts so I ended up getting the great privilege of finding almost all the facts. I wrote them all out into point-form notes. While we were researching, we began to learn how to work the movie-making programs on the lab tops. Vishu learned quicker then Alice or I did so he was our groups’ computer person. We also had to create pieces of art. Alice is very good at art so that worked out well because Vishu and I aren’t particularly good at art.
If I had the chance to do the project over again, I would jump at it. Although it was hard, it was fun. I learned so much. Looking back, I can’t believe how ignorant and stereotypical I was. I’m a lot more aware of the outside world now. All in all, it’s a bittersweet ending to a bittersweet project.
