OK so watching movies and trying to apply concepts used in my Dynamics of Negotiation course is not a good idea. Except when about 1/3 of the grade depends on it! We were to do a group project on a negotiation sequence. While it would have been a much better experience to look at a real life negotiation, like Maytag v UAW or on a smaller scale the local college vs the facilities management union, the time frame of our course made that impossible. We only had 5 weeks from beginning of course until final exam, that left a very limited time frame to form into a team and get any "research" done. Therefore, my team decided to write our 10-15 page paper on the movie "The Firm". Now I'm never going to be able to watch that movie again! Or really any Tom Cruise movie. That may be because of over evaluating "The Firm" or because he is really annoying!!
Anyway, my five weeks of Negotiation immersion is almost complete, the group paper is due on 7/26 and the final exam is on 7/28. Then my life will return to "normal" for about 4 weeks and then right back into classes two nights per week. The life of a student:)
Cheers!
