My fault or Misunderstanding?

A really bad 24-hour day from 7:30 pm last night.

I was blamed severely by our team "leader" during the class break of MGMT 502 Managerial Economics. I said sorry again and again, but when I sat down and recalled everything, I didn't get why I deserved it.

Here's the story: I was supposed to finish my part before our group meeting (Monday 7 pm), but I didn't. This was my fault, I confess. At the meeting, the leader reset the deadline (Tuesday afternoon) and said she would combine our work into a project draft and email us to revise. This time I handed in on time. Wednesday noon, without hearing from her about the full paper draft, I started revising my part and 2.5 hours before project deadline (the professor sets it for the team paper), I sent my revised version to the "leader".

What happened during the break:
I talked to her to confirm she received my revised version, but right after I asked, she began to blame on me, saying that I did this the last minute and the whole team suffered and the score of the project would be affected by my work. Blahblahblah....

It hurts and haunts in my mind the whole day. This evening, I wrote to her to try to clear the possible misunderstanding between us, and told her I felt unconfortable about what she said to me. She replied, telling me there was NO misunderstanding because I should have handed in my work on Monday night. Tuesday afternoon was too late for her to figure out a final draft. I responded by saying that she shouldn't have reset the deadline to Tuesday if it was not workable for her. I did finish the project late Monday night, but because of the new deadline, I decided to discuss with my friend first. She became more annoyed and said she was trying to be as nice as possible last night when we talked. The fault is mine, this is an uncontroversial fact. My belated work is unacceptable for her.

I was not shifting my fault or resposibility when I wrote to her. But is she nice? I began questioning the definition of "be nice". No dirty word? No slapping? To me, her tone was really bad, if not terrible. About ten years ago, one of my teachers talked to me with this tone besides insulting words, and I left the school half a year later. But this time, I am not leaving.

MGMT 500

Introduction to Management Information System

Session 1:
Professor: Kahai, Surinder
Textbook: Must: Office Access Handbook, Harvard Business School case study (Cisco); others optional
Exam Frequency: Total 2 exams, mid and final
Exam Form: 54 multiple choices, 3 conceptual maps
Assignments: 5 assignments, if handed in before some specific day, you'll get bonus points, up to 20 bonus points from this part.
Grade: No curve
A : 950+
A-: 900-949
Others: Bunch of slides and readings, online module study (twice a survey about that follows), a short paper to make up for lack of class participation (not for attendance).

Experience: Learn a lot from it, so I choose another course lectured by Professor Kahai. No pressure and have fun. I can really feel that he really wants everyone to learn something. Speak out in class, though I almost kept silent last semester.

Comments: Take it as long as you have some slight idea about computer. No surprise if you follow professor's instruction, finish assignment in advance to earn the extra points, and go through the slides carefully for the exam.

(As of Spring 2007)

Fall in love...

Fall in love with this project, unbelieveable!

I have another project to work on, Economics, which is due on this Wednesday, but I feel I couldn't leave this one, it's always haunting in my mind.

As for the Economics case study project, the case is not very well written compared to the case from Harford Business School I read last semester. Boring, I'd say, no life in the article.