Never Let Me Go Senior Project

Respect the Project

We were given the choice to either read Never Let Me Go or to start a class project that dealt with a pressing issue in society. Both choices had its enticing features and irritating ones, making it difficult to go either way. In the end, we came to the consensus with the latter choice and decided to base the project on the bystander effect as it was deemed necessary to increase awareness on this psychological phenomenon since it casts deleterious effects. As a result, a plan with an organized proposal that would help accomplish this objective was developed. We planned to broadcast two informative videos on the bystander effect and the methods to overcome it, which includes preventing the diffusion of responsibility to act.

We were in this state of chaos because we lacked an effective means of communication and ironically diffused our responsibility. There was only one group chat as a class, and everyone usually sent a message simultaneously. As a result, if you weren’t present at the moment when everyone was chatting together, you would have an absurd amount of unread messages and it would be extremely challenging to filter out the important messages from the insignificant ones. Therefore, people frequently missed announcements as they gave up on reading all the messages in the group chat, making it difficult to communicate. Another pitfall was the diffusion of responsibility. Even though a major component of the bystander effect was the diffusion of responsibility and we stressed the importance of not diffusing responsibility, we were hypocritical and knowingly diffused it. Individuals had to make revisions, but they would ‘forget,’ and no improvements were made. If we had learned to actually take on responsibility and made the corrections, the project would’ve been much more refined. Nonetheless, the class managed to exhibit heart-warming comradeship, especially when we were constructing the maze. Without comradeship, the interactive activity would’ve been a complete failure. Still, the class can improve if the pressing issues relating to communication and responsibility is dealt

First of all, I endeavored the most and showed the most passion among the event coordinators even though I wasn’t a group leader. Initially, a fellow classmate was designated to be the leader of the event coordinators. However, this specific classmate failed to take an initiative and I took on the responsibility as a leader in order to ensure the success of the project. Unfortunately, the specific classmate wasn’t the only person who was too lazy to take an initiative and I was the only one with a source of urgency. Fortunately as time passed and as the students learned that there would be a peer evaluation as a part of our grade, people began to participate. I also took on the responsibility to aid other groups. For instance, I had to revise the whole proposal as I noticed a number of glaring grammatical errors, and I had to fill out a section in the proposal for the marketing group as they had forgot to do it. However, I could’ve improved in many aspects to make this project much better: I could learn to delegate. In future projects that require teamwork like this one, I will consistently delegate to get everyone to participate equally. Overall, I firmly believe that I contributed a lot to the project, but the quality of my contributions could’ve been better if I learned to work together with other