VISION

Vision-- "the ability to perceive something not actually visible, as through mental acuteness or keen foresight."

Grown up in a typical Chinese family under a typical Chinese education, I had alwasy been told when I was a kid," you must study hard, and get an A at school!" One of the new year wishes in my family was "hope our daughter can get into XXXX high school," for many years, until I finally did it! So, when I was a kid, my vision was the "A".

Now my first goal is to get my CPA and MS degree as soon as I can. I am working hard on it.
Honestly, I am not born a business person. I don't think I have much "gene" for business world. It sounds so sad for me as a junior at Baruch.

"Vision without action is just a dream.Action without vision merely wastes time."

I still have other visions, which are related to my real life in a business school. But I decided not to put them up here since I've read it thousands of times and start to do something.

decision making

I was so surprised that Prof.Kurpis sat and watched our big chaos in the class instead of being the leader of this debate. From the beginning to the end, we were given very few informations about this discussion. If we were asked to make a choise of curving or dropping the lowest grade, I think it will be much easier to do it. However, Prof. Kurpis gave us the opportunity to find our best solusion, but in the condition of a 100% agreement.

It is impossible to satisfy everyone since we all have different interests and situations, especially during the discussion about the format of our future exam. In this part, i was acting under "avoidance". I know everyone has equal opportunity and the right to compete, to win this debate. But in the very last few minutes we have at the end, we still couldn't have the final picture of our exam formact, and more and more different opinions kept coming out. I chose to accept any final solusion, instead of giving out new ideas. Because I think there is no way to get everyone's agreement on it for their self interests.

bye bye my egg!

This is how we did in our “unbreakable egg drop” in class activity.
First of all, our mission was given by the professor---make a plan to protect our egg from cracking when we drop it onto the floor. It sounds as an impossible job for our brittle and poor egg. However, that was our goal! Since we were getting into the planning process together, our egg might be able to survive at the end!!
Before we got our actual materials, we knew that we were going to have 8 straws and some tape to finish our job. Everyone in our group had different ideas and ways to design the egg holder. We discussed and drew pictures in paper and tried to come up with the best solution. Finally, we had decision to choose one of those alternative methods. 25 minutes had gone very fast when we were discussed. However, the 10 minute for us to wrap pass much faster. Since there was only one scissors in the classroom, we need to wait other groups to use it. That wasted half of our 10 minutes to get the scissors. Unfortunately, our final egg holder looked a little different from what we drew in the picture in our planning process. Finally, as the shortest person in our group, I was chosen to do the important task----drop the egg!! I was begging for its “life” when I stood on the chair. But I saw it heat the side of trash can and died…
Even though we hadn’t learned the planning chapter before this activity, I find out that we had actually gone through all the steps when I checked back the list of planning process. Planning is a thinking process we always do in our daily lives. It is not only related to management but our everyday lives too. We are failed to protect our egg eventually, but I had a lot fun and enjoyed working with my teammates from the game.