Oh, no. It is so painful to answer this question. It will depend on the working style of these brains. In this trial, we have five brains. I've got an experience that have only two brains worked through more than two projects and an experience with two more brains work on one project. Nothing worked out.
The first experience with a Chinese man. This is a lazy guy. Because he thinks he is so smart and have gotten some master degree on a certain subject, he did not want to work at all. He just want to put some simple numbers on the paper and done! First of all, he is procrastinated. A waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than I do. As I had learned that studying advanced degrees in North American is not a smart-gets-degree thing at all, it is a hard-working and painful thing. I urged him to start the projects as early as possible. He simply has no interests. Secondly, he would not present his project as the course requested. What? Don't you want your score? I told him is he would let me do every slides, then he won't have any score. In terms of powerpoint, word and excel, he would say I do not know how to use them. That is something true. He is slow at using these software program but he picked up the techniques under my training. Man. I hated to work with him so much that I have to put my feelings on the public page staightforward. He made me be afraid to work with any other "team mates."
In Summer I, I had another team mate. This is a White lady. She never prepared for the get-together study. But her attitudes were so cooperative. She would listen to what I have in my mind and she offerred her expertise in typing. Something I did not understand is that she did not know that as a team, we had to submit only one report. She thought we would do two and pulled in one more team mate, which was not allowed at the beginning. We were the only three-person team in that couse. The other girl offerred her piece of analysis on one section, the White lady asked me to join her for finishing the whole parts that has to do with the calculation and number. This white lady was my "mentor" assigned by the university upon my request at the entrance. She had always been very self confident. She never initiated any offer to me as I had never asked for. Because Chinese prefer people's innitiative instead of asking. Since she is a westener, I thought we might think and act differently. After the project, I've got to know that some westeners could be like my first team mate.
This time, I am experiencing the third team. We have five people in a team, four Asians, one white man. The white man and a guy from HK were very proactive. They did a lot of work, especially the white man. His contribution weighted better and heavier. We had met three times. I had been lagged behind because of several reasons. I contributed my opinion and thoughts right before the third meeting. It seems that they had had the project formed without willing to change at all. The Taiwan guy is a boss leading a e-learning company. He had leadership style, i.e., funny, ameliorate, on-time, hard working, chatty and prone to inner peace. He contributed some ideas that I agreed upon a lot. But his ideas were not brought up for any discussion - just like my case. The last guy is a second generation immigrant from Phillippine. His schedule has been tight. Every meeting to him should be limited within 30-40 minutes. His share of this project is the only graph and some old project he's done in other courses. Though he is full of techniques. In addition to his poise, he looks like a thinker who always wants control. Anyway, this is the best experience I have had in this place. Although I do not think we have had a strong "buy-in" for this project, I regained a little trust on the so-called team work.
What will happen next? How am I going? Where to go? I have no idea.
