Ranting about Projects Day

Our Projects Day experiment just ended and this is the last time we will be doing the experiment! Yay! Enough of looking at crickets and crickets and crickets. After calculating, I just found out we did 416 trials with maximum of 5 minutes each for only experiment! Imagine the amount of time we spent on the experiments. I have spent approximately 35 hours observing the crickets going out of the hole for 416 times! The time and effort spent on this is epic.

Before the semi-finals, we finished experiment 1 and 20 crickets for experiment 2. The teacher judge was not sastified with the little number, and even said that for professionals like scientist, when dealing with life science (like crickets), normally do 200 of the subject matter. We certainly do not have time, hence she suggested 50. So we have it, we did a total of 52 crickets for the experiment and for richer data.

Experiments aside, there are still discussions and research that had to be done before the experiment. This causes much more time to be spent. Furthermore, during the discussions, our group members are not contributing much, causing the slow progress of the discussions. Other than the leader (the rick), the others just want to slack. The slacking included not doing of the google docs tasks and it dates back to term 1, including the research notes, experiment ideas, extensions ideas and now the discussion document. If the google docs task were completed, the work would of low quality and does not benefit much to the experiment.

Things are worse during meetings. People (with exception of the leader) only wants to kill time and hope that the meeting will end early so as to go home. I do admit that I am sometimes one of them but at least I do contribute to the meetings. This causes the whole meeting to be unproductive and to be a waste of time. Furthermore, people also finds excuses to not come for meetings. This includes deliberately arranging CIP to be at the day of the experiment or meetings.

However, come to speak of it, our group members is actually better than other groups that I know of, these include giving up of the whole projects day finals and finding lame excuses to skip meetings. That's all for the ranting..