Stone Soup

Much like the children’s book this event was named after, the Stone Soup event allowed our group to talk to each other and find our strengths and weaknesses, then create a project through a collaborative effort. In most cases, this collaborative effort often ends with positive results. This also allowed our team to bond a little more. Through this teamwork, we found something that represented each of us. Although the final product might not have looked visually cohesive, we all helped put it together, and in this case, the art representing the ideas and feelings, rather than just for aesthetic purposes.
This project allows us to glimpse at what professionals have to endure—conflicting ideas and sometimes too many ideas, which ones to choose and which ones to exclude. In fact, even if we end up not majoring in design, this project would be a great way for people to learn how to work together, to see what other people are like. This gives us the corny life lessons that we all need to learn at one time or another.
This project also allowed us to see other personalities, and it lets us picture what we would face in future work environments. This is also a sort of test to see how well we would fare in our future jobs, and possibly even what type of jobs we should pursue.
I enjoyed working with my group members, it also helped me extend my social network, which is invaluable in college and in the future.