GS301 Rant 1

I warned you it was going to happen. Here it is. The first GS301 rant. Yes sir indeedy. GS301 is a class about "servant leadership" in which students learn about being a servant leader and do their own servant leader project. Let's get started about the amusing tasks from last week's class. I'm sure I will miss something that happened in the class though...

The class started out with a few questions displayed on the projector which we then broke into pairs to discuss. The discussion in my pair quickly turned to the topic that pretty much everyone is called by God to a vocation or task, whether or not they acknowledge his existence. I used Bill Gates as an example that most people wouldn't think about. My partner strongly disagreed with me as he views a calling to a task or vocation by God to mean that one is probably already in the faith.

Later on we stood by letters on the walls as responses to questions posed to us about what would we do if a problem came up in any group we may be in. The problem with this was the responses were rather arbitrary and the question were given little context. Any of us could have given any answer depending on the situation.

We also did a group activity where we were given a short amount of time to try to memorize the contents of a box. We were then given a short amount of time to create lists of what we saw and then to combine the individual lists into our group list. Point of the exercise: a group can often times get more done than an individual and often working in a group is more important than and individual's motives. I would have never ever figured that one out without the help of this class.

We finished by watching about fifteen minutes from the movie Miracle. I'm still trying to figure that one out.

Once again again people amuse me.