Aidan's project went very well overall, but I was often confused about my part in it. Whenever I talked to Aidan, it was a bit unclear of what he wanted me to do, and so I ended up either guessing about my task or pondering him with questions. Aidan was no doubt a good leader in the sense that he was willing to take time and answer questions I had, but I feel that there would never have been a need to ask so many questions if I was told what to do in the first place. It seems that Aidan never told me what was going on and how I could help, so there were multiple times I thought I was doing nothing to assist him. I don't want to label him as being unclear, since he was most likely keeping me away from the work in his project because of my already busy schedule, but it would have been much better if he had updated me on things.
There was major task that I was assigned to for this project, and that was to come up with ideas that Aidan could add to the manual he was creating, and I did exactly that. Since I didn't have very much else to contribute to, I made whole lists of ideas for him, from making examining the wiring to observing him experiment with the sound system. He accepted the ideas I gave him and said he would make sure to consider them, but I haven't really been able to see any of the actual manual yet (I am not even sure if he wanted to continue that idea or not). I feel that it is not at all my fault for knowing so little about what was going on during this project since I did what was asked from me as well as asked about things that stumped me. I sometimes felt that Aidan didn't even think that I was involved with his project even though I told him about my progress with the manual every couple of days.
Although I think that I wasn't able to do much for this project because of the lack of knowledge for it, I have a feeling that all of the goals originally planned for it have been accomplished. The main goal was to fix the problems of our sound system, and that all was done almost right after Aidan started his project. I learned much about the sound equipment when he told me his process so that I could note it down, and when he was setting up mikes for my play project later on. This was a good experience for me since my dad is a computer engineer and he is always telling me to take a closer look at how things work; I am much more interested in technology now that I was before helping with this project. The accomplishments that this project has done are going to helpful for people who want to work with our troubled sound system in the future, and I know that our group has done a great job in repairing because I was able to compare how the system worked before and how it does now.
I think that I could have had a much bigger part in this project than I was given, but considering what I have been able to learn and what Aidan was able to get done, my contribution doesn't seem so small after all. I just hope I was helpful to Aidan, otherwise I wasted both his time and mine. Aidan just needed to let me know what my part was more clearly, and I should have done a better job scooping out my tasks (even though I might have gotten on his nerves if I asked more questions than I already did); I should have tried to find things out myself.
There was major task that I was assigned to for this project, and that was to come up with ideas that Aidan could add to the manual he was creating, and I did exactly that. Since I didn't have very much else to contribute to, I made whole lists of ideas for him, from making examining the wiring to observing him experiment with the sound system. He accepted the ideas I gave him and said he would make sure to consider them, but I haven't really been able to see any of the actual manual yet (I am not even sure if he wanted to continue that idea or not). I feel that it is not at all my fault for knowing so little about what was going on during this project since I did what was asked from me as well as asked about things that stumped me. I sometimes felt that Aidan didn't even think that I was involved with his project even though I told him about my progress with the manual every couple of days.
Although I think that I wasn't able to do much for this project because of the lack of knowledge for it, I have a feeling that all of the goals originally planned for it have been accomplished. The main goal was to fix the problems of our sound system, and that all was done almost right after Aidan started his project. I learned much about the sound equipment when he told me his process so that I could note it down, and when he was setting up mikes for my play project later on. This was a good experience for me since my dad is a computer engineer and he is always telling me to take a closer look at how things work; I am much more interested in technology now that I was before helping with this project. The accomplishments that this project has done are going to helpful for people who want to work with our troubled sound system in the future, and I know that our group has done a great job in repairing because I was able to compare how the system worked before and how it does now.
I think that I could have had a much bigger part in this project than I was given, but considering what I have been able to learn and what Aidan was able to get done, my contribution doesn't seem so small after all. I just hope I was helpful to Aidan, otherwise I wasted both his time and mine. Aidan just needed to let me know what my part was more clearly, and I should have done a better job scooping out my tasks (even though I might have gotten on his nerves if I asked more questions than I already did); I should have tried to find things out myself.
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