Well today we had to hand in our final reports for project 1. Iwas hoping that Ken wouldprove Polly and I wrong and come to class with a report that was going to blow us all away. That didn't happen. I decided that it was in our group's best interest that we have a backup reoprt written just in case Ken flakes. It's a good thing that I did because he didn't show up to class today.
Now as far as attendance goes in that class I'm not going to critize. I haven't been to every class and I did miss both days that we presented our project. The difference between Ken's absence and my absence is that I didn't really need to be there to operate or record results because there are two people in our group that aren't doing bubkus so let them do a little work! Well that was bad thinking on my part because no one, not even Polly, recorded any results from the first or second day of competition making it really hard to revise the formulas that I came up with.
Undaunted I forged on and wrote the final report with the anmeic amount of information that I had. I showed Polly a draft and took her suggestion about having a problems and solutions section to the reoprt. I left some space available in case we would be able to get our run results from the TAs but that didn't happen. What fun was it to be both the webmaster and report writer. Not really. I had the webpage up a week before it was due. It was nicely laid out and all I had to do was add whatever extra information we got from the competition days. I fulfilled my end why the hell I have to cover for the other person who was responsible for documentation I don't know. Damn this class and it weighing 60% of my grade on team projects.
I have this horrible feeling that despite the fact that Rami is supposed to be the report writer for Project 2 I am going to be stuck doing it. Rami is almost as bad as Ken. He does slightly more and gives more input. Unfortunately at some point he forgets that there needs to be a building and testing stage. I got stuck with a bunch of kids that I don't want and I shouldn't have to nag people to follow through on their end of the work.