Group Dynamics...

Just got out of two solid hours of work on the group project. After hearing Craig Yale's excellent presentation on Group Dynamics this morning, my teammates and I are waiting for the other shoe to drop. As in the "storming" phase of the project. You know - where we all turn into animals and start clawing each other over a variety of aspects of the work.

Just kidding - we certainly have a long road ahead of us in narrowing the work, but we seem to have strong consensus around the project vision, our approach, and the areas where we think we can make the contributions necessary to a) get the grading points and b) have a great (even fun?) presentation.

Nine of us are grouped together for each of the Second Year projects this year. MTLI was a total sellout in 2005, as was (correctly) rumored at AMTC. If you're reading this and are on the fence about signing up for next year, I'd encourage you to do so early. With both First Year and Graduate programs turning folks away this year and the Second Year section breaking all attendance records, the school seems to be riding a very positive wave... I'll bet next year will be better, although I don't know if the school can get much bigger. I think for next year, the mantra might be "you snooze - you lose" when it comes to registration...