One Stray Pea

Let’s make no bones about this, I hate group work. In my previous academic life I was always paired with one of two anal retentive numpties. It made me want to lose an eye. In my latest group work endeavor we were told to pair up and choose a nursing theorist on which we were to present. I chose my partner because she’s really nice, she wears converse, knows her celebrity gossip and most importantly, she was sitting right next to me. Behold the power of convenience!

My partner and I decided that we would pick our theorist based on who had the coolest name on the list. Shortly thereafter we realized that our group was pretty much Slackers Unite! We briefly considered brushing each other’s hair for the 45 minute required time and then asking “Any questions?�?, we also discussed ending our presentation with, “San Dimas high school football rules!�?. Then we sucked it up and walked to the library, checked out books and articles that we had no intention of really reading and hastily threw together what we found to be a delightful presentation. It came complete with an easy to read handout and even a Nursing Choose Your Own Adventure book. Yeah, we took it back old school stylee. To make it more low-tech, once we heard that a power point wasn’t required, it was like a get out of jail free card. We’re minimalists, we went by the grading rubric; no more, no less, that’s the slacker way!

Our classmates were required to fill out evaluations of our presentation and I personally found some of the comments wildly amusing. For your reading pleasure:

“Very good looking�? – well duh, I mean look at us! But thanks

“Very brave of them not to rely on a power point presentation�? – That’s us, full of courage. Again, we’re minimalists

“Interesting storytelling format�? – We like story time

“Would like to see a picture of Peplau, I’m a visual person�? – Trust us, we’ve seen a picture of her, we were sparing you

“Could be more ways to involve the audience�? – Sorry, we were too busy envisioning you in your underwear.

“Beautiful reference list�? – Why thank you, we thought so

“fine�? – fine? What’s fine?

“Made it as interesting as it could have been�? – We’re glad you were as bored as we were. Mission accomplished

“good�? – what? What’s good?

“Sara and Nicole make a great team�? – Well, we are delightful. Is this where we high five?

“I would have liked to have the handout at the beginning of the presentation�? – Sorry kids, this is our domain where we our class master. You will have the handout when I say so.

And my personal favorite: “choose your own = nice�? -Yeah, we thought so too

Ps – we got an A. WITHOUT THE POWER POINT!

Filed under: Education, Nonsense on May 30th, 2007