Ethnography

Ethnography

October 5, 2015

Midterm Studying




While doing my study I focused primarily on a group of five people,  an older man by himself and two guys talking religious stuff to other people around me. The first people I noticed were the group of five. The person that seemed in charge of the group was a guy that seemed pretty confident in many of the answers that he gave. He also seemed to be the best prepared out of the rest of the group. They seemed to be talking about history many of their topics dealt with past American before the 1900’s.Another person in his group then tried after him and she was able to get about three fourths of questions correct that were asked. The rest of the group members then took turns and the one’s that weren’t being quizzed were silently studying the material. The group repeated this pattern a total of three times. Meanwhile, two guys were asking people they could talk to people about god. They seemed to be Christians since one of them had a bible .Each time they spoke to someone it always seemed to be a guy and not a woman. As well, one was always starting out a conversation while the other always seemed to cut in during the conversation between the people and seemed to end the conversation. As they started to talk to the person that was next to me they ended up having the chance to talk to someone after being rejected by the first two people they talked to .The person who started asked have you considered spiritual things to the person that they were talk to. After that the taller man asked two more questions and the smaller one then started talking to the man they were asking and ended up asking him what liked to do during his free time after that they asked him some more questions and the guy that was being asked later on left and the two missionary men left as well. While I was observing I noticed an older man across from. The older man was constantly typing on his computer. While writing his paper I saw him get frustrated with his mouse pad and noticed that he contorted his face whenever he got a little aggressive with his computer. He also took five minute every time he got frustrated with his computer. During his breaks he ended up just drinking some Einstein’s. Coffee and taking a bite out of his snicker doodle cookie. During one the man’s breaks I stared back at the group that was working on their midterm exam and the guy who was able answer the questions easily ended up leaving earlier than the rest of his peers. After going through the final exam review sheet a total of six times the group ended up dispersing and left. At the end a guy and girl ended up talking to one another about going to star bucks 2 hrs before the exam started. When looking at the group when they were testing I noticed that after the third try that all of the group members were able to answer all of the questions. The older man finished his paper right before the group ended up leaving .He then took out a chemistry lab and started to work on that he then took a ten minute break and packed up.

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