A lesson learned in Capstone

Today was a very interesting day in our capstone class. Last Tuesday we received a group assignment. We had been recently talking about immigration laws and we were supposed to come up with, as a group, a new immigration law. He was not going to tell us who was in our group. The only way that we would be able to figure this out was if we posted on  the discussion board on Brainhoney. It seems simple enough right!? WRONG! Everyone was so angry about this assignment and let me just tell you why.

1) Some people did not post on their discussion board early enough and were not able to meet with their group.
2) People had prior engagements and did not post on the discussion board at all
3) There was not enough time to complete the assignment
4) If you missed class then you did not know what the assignment was or how to complete the assignment
5) There was only one day to complete the assignment and that was not enough time

The arguments could last forever but this is just a couple of the problems that were mentioned in class. So, the question that Brother Hunt asked us was, what do we do about it? How do we give someone a grade for this assignment. Some people felt that they deserved the grade because they did work. Others felt like the assignment should be dropped because they were confused or they did not have time to meet with their or something along those lines. This debate went on for a while a people were just angry.

Then Brother Hunt pulled out the big guns! This was an assignment but not graded on out presentation. He wanted us to learn that we have biases in our arguments all the time. Some people that that it was fair to grade the presentations while others did not and this was based on the bias of our certain situations. His point was that it is hard for us not to be bias when we are in the situation. It is hard for us to make decisions for other people when we know that something is fair but we want to help ourselves out. Another point that I thought was interesting that he made was that when we start to feel guilty about something, Satan works on us and causes us to start to blame other people. When we blame other people, this is not being Christlike.

I think also what I learned from this lesson was to take responsibility for things. This was an assignment and there should have been things that I needed to get done. At this stage in our lives, school is a major priority. A priority that should not be pushed away.

I am very grateful for Brother Hunt and the lessons that he teaches us everyday. He has blessed our lives so much not only in this class but in many other ways as well!