Let's Be Serious

Why is it hard to have serious conversations with someone these days? Let me begin this journal entry with a little back story. I have a group assignment this semester that is a requirement for a course in Compensation Management for Human Resources. The course is being taught by a teacher whom I am unable to comprehend because her style of teaching is largely difficult for me to understand. I am much a visual learner, and she likes to have class participation by talking about things rather than having visual cues. So, like I said before, this is difficult for me to follow. Now she has given us a group assignment to begin based on the material we have learned thus far. I have to be honest, I have not read the material yet so I am not entirely sure what to be doing, and for that I have to succeed the fact that is my very own problem and not related to the actual issue I am going to talk about soon.

Today, I was to meet with my group to discuss what we will do in regards to the project as we have a meeting with the teacher to ask her certain questions that pertain to the assignment itself and where to go based on what she may or may not tell us. I had brought McDonald's for myself and another to have lunch. As you are not allowed to eat inside group study rooms I am on the outside and trying to listen to the conversation going on, but I realise we're actually not talking about the assignment for which we all gathered, but about trivial things, and not doing the work. Which brings me to my first statement again - why is it hard to have a serious conversation these days? Had everyone read the material and come up with some points to go over, I think our meeting may have gone over well. Instead, nothing was accomplished, and I spent my time coming for nothing. I will not let that happen again.