The egg game and planning

The goal we wanted to achieve was to keep an egg from cracking when it was dropped from a 10 feet height. First of all, we reached an agreement that to protect the egg we need to create some space around the egg. Then based on the amount of material we had, each of us expressed the ideas we had in mind. There were eight people in our group, so many options were presented during the discussion. Some of our teammates even started to build a model, which was a "basket", with some paper. In the end, most of us voted for the "basket" plan since our teammates proved it was enfoceable and we were running out of time. However, because of the shortage of time, we didn't get a chance to talk about how the "basket" plan worked. When the execution time began, the situation became kind of akward: only two people were working on the plan, the rest of us had no idea wat was going on there. Forturnately, we got our "Bob" done at the last moment.

Although in the end our "Bob" was broken, it was a very good lesson for us. On the one hand, getting the work done is important; on the other hand, using time effectively and inspiring people to engage positively are also very important.

culture shock

The first difference i noticed was that in the United States,when you sneeze, you need to say "excuse me", then people around you will say "bless you", and of course it will be impolite if you didn't thank them. In my country, usually people have no reaction to someone's sneeze.

The other difference i've experienced was that when i visited my friend's house, she asked, "do you want something to drink?" I was expecting her to treat me with some drinks even though i told her i was not thirsty, but she didn't. In China, usually we don't ask; we just put the drinks (mostly tea) in front of the guest. Even if the guests say they don't want any drink, we still going to bring out the drinks because we think that means you respect and care about your friends.

Oh, there is a remind for you in case you are visiting a Chinese family or eating in a Chinese restaurant. Do not ever stick your chopsticks in the rice because Chinese people only do that in funerals. It reprents an offering for the dead ancestors.

Hey, hey, hey

I'm Cuiting Gao. I grew up in the south part of China and i came to the USA four years ago. Currently i am a senior level student majoring in Accounting. I'm not a very talkative person, but i'm a good listener.  In my mind, mangement is a very complicated thing. You need to know some Psychology to deal with people (maybe i just watch too much TV~).