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understanding of how our assignments worked and then we wouldhave to try and work everything in with his process. Roy and Ihad a couple of minor disagreements over how a particularfunction worked but we were not able to find concrete evidencesupporting one or the other so we ended up using [roy]sideasDermot We worked well to compliment each others strengthsand weaknesses ( i.e. ROY = strengths Me and Mike = weaknesses:). Both Mike and I learned a lot from Roy over the semester andI believe that he may have learned a little bit from us (thingssuch as patients, anger management, and youthfulness). For themost part however there were little disagreements and we allworked together. I felt that I dropped the ball a little bit inthe second assignment by not reading up well enough on thesubject and therefore tried to make up for it on the finalassignment.Although the class atmosphere was generally positive, some students had problems withmotivation. As noted previously, two of the cohort had been told to enrol in the studiowhen internship opportunities did not eventuate. Mike, in particular, had motivation issuesthroughout the semester:Mike I am not a huge fan of Design Studios and do not think that thestructure works for me. My view of this unit has beendiscoloured by my disappointment in not getting an internshipand also being forced to do this unit rather than choosing to.This view has been difficult to break out of and I’ve struggledfor motivation with this unitLooking at the amount of effort Mike put into the unit confirms this attitude: the activitylogs indicated he devoted 66 hours to this unit over the whole semester – very little more thanthe mandatory two hours per session. By comparison, the most time recorded was Alaina’s210 hours. This comes close to the 260 hours expected in the Design Studio model proposedwithin the School.356