This week in the lectorial we were positioned to consider the concept of collaboration, emphasising the importance of teamwork in our post-graduate prospects, which I feel is honestly a pretty good means of starting things off in first semester, to really make us think about it now, how we collaborate with others, whether we’re willing to take other ideas in and other things on. While I welcome it I’m not sure I have in the past been as collaborative as I could be.

In the past one thing springs to mind which was this group job interview I had to do once at the Melbourne Recital Centre, where there was this group exercise, and while we completed the exercise, I kind of commandeered it, perhaps a little too much, and of course did not end up working at the Recital Centre. Further, I kind of spent a lot of the interview making a friend, who at the time was studying at RMIT doing this very course (I think?).

Anyway, it’s probably beneficial for me to think about it now, as a flow on effect of me constantly pondering it in class from now on. It’s definitely important to consider the good and the bad experiences that result from this scenario also, and I feel like it’s really necessary to share ideas to lead to a win/win in order to avoid someone end up doing all the work as theres a mutual interest in the project.