Reflection on our project

I always feel happy during the process of doing our project, although my classmates regard four members of our group, as “poor things” for our supervisor is stricter than theirs. Actually, it is her high expectation that motivates us to try our best. Although we know we are not full-time researchers and cannot do so rigorous project as professional researchers, we are struggling, anyway. Compared to other groups, we have devoted more endeavors to doing it. One example is that our questionnaire was revised at least five times before we distributed them to respondents, although we think it can be improved if we had been given more time.

Cooperation is the most important thing I have learned from our team. I am the researcher of our project and have to do much reading in a short time. Thanks to Juzheng’s help of finding books and supplying useful information, I can finish my task. In editing stage of the project, I help our editor do some graphs for he is not very good at it. I find it important for a team to have equitable distribution of task and then make changes to adjust to new problems turning up, both of which contribute to an efficient team.

Besides that, the sense of belonging also makes me very happy. I notice when discussing, the four of us have changed our frequently used words such as “you should…” to “Maybe we can do like this. Do you have any other ideas?”, which is a sign of that we have learned to respect others’ thought. We can better understand something from different angles. Actually, there are not extremely right or wrong points. We become more patient and are willing to listen to others’ opinion, which is a very good quality for young people.

Last but not least, it is Ms Leo’s high expectation that let me feel we are respected as 19 year-old adults. Many SM3 students told me as their tutors’ saying this project was only a rehearsal of ours following projects as undergraduate students so take it easy. However, Ms Leo told us to try our best once we have decided to do something. As for the background and purpose, I have rewritten twice, and now I am still trying to make it more brief, interesting and persuasive.

I really have learned something I have never learned in China from this project, that is rigorous and scientific attitude and method, from which we will benefit much in the future. It is good for us to accept such thought as early as possible so that we can apply it to our study, which is very useful for critical and creative thinking.