A chance to shine

Given that majority of the class has done poorly on the midterm, the professor was kind enough to let us assess the crisis on our own and implement a new game plan on how we may improve the current grade and generate better ones on exams to come. Day in and day out we come to class as students, and abide the rules given to us by the managerial figure placed in front of us "the professor", this time we were given the chance to be managers of ourselves and the class, as the professor sat back and watched, with an occasional grim. Its well known that saying "lets just study harder" will only end us in the same place so here we were on the track to raise our grade. Automatically the class had split into the aggressors who didn't yet know what they wanted but were eager to be "self-nominated" leaders. The brown nosers, who although were given a leadership position were still intimidated by the presence of the professor in the room and felt as if they would prosper more through a humble approach. And as few such as myself, at the moment I felt like a high roller, the chance was mine to finally take advantage and hustle the "system". Chaos erupted as the professor said go, and ideas were being hollered out. A classmate, Abe, decided to address this by approaching the board and jotting down ideas. Winning over the majority but there were still a few that were dazed and confused. We finally agreed how we will improve our grade, and with just a few minutes to spare we went into the debate of formatting the next exam. People were all over the place, opposing ideas, and suggesting ideas of the same nature. i.e. Yes to multiple/multiple but no to True/False... Go on E-bay buy a CLUE. Others were to eager to explain that giving a curve to those that did worse then them would be like giving a reward for the lack of effort. I felt like I started out as a "compete to win" participator and walked away as a collaborating player. I was eager to take advantage, yell out high numbers for extra credit and settle on something in between, yet there were those who low balled themselves. Automatically agreeing on a 10% increase for extra credit is not justifiable when you're in charge, 20 should of been offered and on 15 we should of closed. As we approached the "closing bell" final decisions had to be locked in, and a unanimous vote must of been agreed upon to received the bundle that will raise our grade. To this minute I think there are still some people who don't know what they agreed to, but knew that they would be the black sheep out, if no vote was put in. Overall I am happy with the final outcome, not every professor will give this opportunity, if given again, I think people just need to know how to play their cards right, and appreciate the fact that your in charge. We don't feel guilty taking advantage of low mrtgs, or sales, yet when it comes to student/professor ethics, even when given power, some choose to be weak.