My biggest takeaway from this project was the importance of group work to completing a research project and the importance of collecting on site interviews and notes for the completion of a research objective over the long term. This is relevant to many positions and jobs that I have absolutely no interest in whatsoever, because I absolutely hate everything that we did there and never want to do it again. This is because the tasks we had to complete to achieve the objective were painful from the very start to the finish by sheer volume of their nature. Personally I hate working with other people and want to avoid researching anything ever again for as long as I live. I feel that this takeaway has shronken my horizons and indicated something that I want to do when the time comes for me to take up employment. I know now that group work for research is actually torture and should be avoided at all costs unless I wish to spend the rest of my life in pain. Conclusively while I now understand the importance of the group effort behind the act of researching and interviewing I still wish to have absolutely no part of it for the rest of my life.

 

The things that I learned in this project relate to many of the things that I will be required to do for the rest of my time in school. Most particularly the most important thing that I developed in this project was a further ability to work with other people to produce a singular unified result. This applies to the research and collection of data (in this case from first hand sources) as well as the compilation and organization of the data and then further distribution of the data between the group to allow for proper presentation in the form of a singular product. I feel that my ability in this regard has grown in a significant manner and that I am more capable than I was before this project. I would say that my ability has developed particularly in regards to working with a group to produce an singular product of acceptable quality, in a relatively short amount of time. This of course is derived from my working to produce an outlining document that compiled and presented the information we collected to the people who work at the manna soup kitchen. This is important for school and for future projects as the ability to work in a group is imperative to most tasks that are regularly undertaken by the average person and this is a very good skill to develop.

I would say that during this project I was very well managed in regards to time spent working and that I feel as if I worked as hard as I could in the time given. I would say that my time was well managed by myself but I would not be so bold as to claim the same of everyone else in the group. The most effective form of self management of my time revolved around the founding principle of self control and discipline, forcing myself to perform tasks that I did not want to directly perform. I feel that my best asset in this project was time management when referencing research compilation and product production for the final result. My time management was at a satisfactory level and met the needs that I proposed to it at the time. The best structure to encourage good time management on my part is to let me be to complete my task and to avoid direct contact with me until such a time as the objective has been completed. I feel that this should yield greater results than any other structure of production. I would say that I work best when given the most possible autonomy, without other people attempting to manage my time for me.

 

I do not believe that my natural aptitudes are connected at all to the project. As when the YouScience website said that I am good on inductive reasoning and scientific aptitude I feel that it grossly misinterpreted my psychopathic tendencies as logical and reasonable thinking. I personally think that I am highly irrational and incapable of making a reasonable decision and thus the YouScience results that I got were very inaccurate in regards to showing my abilities. I would say that I am the physical opposite of analytical and am the antithesis of cognitive functionality by sheer measure of my incompetence. Thus I conclude that the results were not accurate.

 

For the future generations of animas students who will have to sign up and complete their Inspire Weeks all the advice I can give you is that you should pick one that is the least painful. Also that you need to do your work, instead of being an worthless literal cancer for the group and just sitting around drawing random things on a piece of printer paper. It's important that you just do your share of work for the community in order to ensure that everything turns out the way you want it to. The final product that the group produces will be something that your name gets attached to so you should make sure that it is something you are okay with sticking to yourself. Personally I would advise that you make sure that you do not sign up for anything that involves a large commute as that will subtract from the amount of time you have to work and the amount of time you have to actually accomplish anything. Make sure you research what each project entails so that you do not get stuck doing physical labor if you don't want to or just office work if you don’t like that either.