Metacognition: Jane Eyre Writing Assignment

This writing assignment was an interesting one. It culminated in a lot of yelling and a lot of random words. When you're working with your friends, this is usually what happens. But then, when you're working with strangers, you have a completely different issue. But actually, we got about half of our assignment done the first time we sat down as a group to work on it. Nirali, Anna, and I got together, slept over, and were up for...a while working on it. But maybe the late night giddiness worked well for us, it let us get out ideas that maybe we wouldn't have said before. Working online in a group doesn't really work for me, and I think my group members felt the same. So we needed the time together to work on that, which was hard to find. I don't like that group projects in every class are increasingly being left to us on our own time (which is sparse, for many of us) because it is hard to find time that everyone is available, and working over the internet just doesn't work well for creative collaborative assignments like this in my opinion. But all in all, this assignment worked well. We started out each taking one person, but ended up writing each others', so that kind of fell apart after the first few lines. But I think the editing was the best part of our collaborative effort,  because we each took a part and read it out loud, so we had a double safety net to make sure that things didn't get past us. Looking back, I didn't mind this project. It wasn't my favorite ever, but it also wasn't a horrible mind-wrenching experience.