Bass 1

Bronson Bass
Individual Reflection
FRINQ 121
Dr. Bagley
10/1/13
Egg Drop Reflection
In the egg drop project I was assigned to be in a group of three students. Once I found the
other two students we grabbed a table and read the instructions. At first I was not expecting to
take on the leader role, but I soon found myself there. In high school I was always the leader, I
did not expect to be one in college as well. In all of my classes, so far, I find myself raising my
hand and asking questions or just being more involved in the class than the person sitting next to
me. I decided that I needed to be in-charge when the guy sitting across from me, Abdul, almost
dropped the egg. But the second clue was that there were 25 straws sitting in front of us and three
feet of tape with no ideas on how to create anything. In one of my architecture classes my
professor told us to be bold with our decisions, even if they did not work. So I guess I took that
too literally, so I pitched an idea of a tepee design. Abdul and Bell thought it would workout, as
did I. But it didnt work out too well.
I sketched it out to show the group, they all looked and gave their permission to further
the building. We all started taping the straws in groups of three, and each member in the group
helped as they could. Abdul held the egg while I taped with all of the remaining tape left. We all
worked equally and finished fairly quickly. All the tape and straws were used by the end of the
building process and we felt reasonably confident in the design.
Bass 2

Bell and I discussed how we imagined the drop would occur, but we didnt predict the
outcome that resulted. When it was our turn to go up to the table Bell introduced me, I
introduced Abdul, and Abdul introduced Bell. While I was letting-go of the egg I felt my heart
skip a beat as the egg instantly went face down. I felt my breath take a sudden pause as it hit the
ground cracking open. After the entire class moaned with a disgusted tone the three of us went
back to our table to sit without an egg.
When we sat down we all looked at each other like we knew that was going to happen;
but how could we have stopped that from occurring? Later that day I had a thought that the
design possibly could have worked if the egg was deeper inside the tepee. In all, I learned that
this was a good group exercise to get us all thinking and a fun way to get to know people in the
class. It also made me think about how the weight of an egg is much more than 25 straws.