DECO1800 Week 2

This week marked our first contact session/workshop.It progressed as I had expected it, a short introductory session between students, followed by a few ice-breaking brain-storms on sticky url. Though entertaining, this contact session was not without its frustrations!

Ten minutes into the session, the tutors looked around the room, puzzled to such an extent that their heads were metaphorically puzzle pieces. What was worse, the two puzzle pieces metaphorically resembling the skulls of my tutors did not complete one another, leaving this mystery unsolved. What were they puzzled by you ask? Well take a seat and I'll explain.

We were missing half the class! I wondered where all my pesky classmates were and how this lack of commitment would transcend into the group project. Images flashed before my eyes of lazy teammates dozing off during team meet-ups and submitting hand drawn deliverables moments before our due date. I stiffened my resolved and mentally noted each and every individual that had made it to the contact. Name, age, degree, nose-type, every important detail was internalized and memorized.

The students that did attend broke up into groups in 2 scenarios that divided us by preference in relation to a specific dichotomy. The first was Dogs/Cats and the second was Kanye-West/tayler-swift. This exercise allowed not only the tutors, but the students to identify who the winners and losers in the class were. Unsurprisingly, the pro-cat crowd was identical to the pro-teilor group and the denizens of the pro-"Yeezus" cliche, much like any respectable member of society, preferred the trusty hound over the mangy cat.