Class Stuff 12/14: group struggles and plans to catch up.

This week, me and my group (Rizheng, Chris, David, Gerald) are making further progress with the storefront project and the $200 project. However, I have to admit that our group is currently struggling to meet various deadlines for our projects. This is primarily due to people, such as myself, misunderstanding assignments and end up with missing details, incorrect format, etc… Our current Storefront project involves using the storefront building as an office rental space. For this, finding information about financial costs of certain things like insurance, payrolls, construction, design, and others were really difficult to find in a short period and I was unsure if I was searching in the right places. In our 200 dollar project, we decided that the safest way to make a return on the 200 dollars was to purchase an item on craigslist that we could fix (currently a violin) and then sell the fixed product on craigslist. Since we have a limited amount of time left with the 200 dollars, we haven’t been able to think of other ways to use our money, which makes the amount of contribution to the project by each person minimal. Additionally, other group members were also absent on occasions when we really needed them and made it more difficult to progress forward and come up with ideas for our projects. When they are absent or late, it is generally difficult for us to still contact whoever is absent.

For the next week, it will be my and my group member’s priority to make sure we catch up on everything that needs to be revised. We will spend time discussing in class and make sure everyone knows what their roles are. I will attempt to email other group members in case certain work is still missing and is needed.