Blog 5

Jottings:
- Nervous laughter (At start)
- Groups made and stuck with
- Forced to disperse
- Awkward ice breakers
- Basic conversation starters
     - Name
     - Major
-Uncomfortable situation in a semi-comfortable environment.

Headnotes:
Most notes were written rather than mentally noted.

Things I Remembered Later:
(Surprisingly, little to nothing.)
- Most of everyone started with Majors as an ice breaker, which was as long as I was left in a group for.
- Only one person started with, "How was your day?", which was Melanie
- Met with Melanie and John for the most time.
- I stayed back mostly to observe other groups, but I did participate in conversation.

Field Notes:
When assignment started, the first sound people made was nervous laughter while they had their eyes move around the room, looking at people. A few seconds in and people start the conversations, usually with names and majors, or general small talk. The groups changed here and there, but it seemed that most students preferred to stay in their groups unless told otherwise, which brought on more conversation starters that felt relatively awkward and uncomfortable. Pauses were made in conversations after a few minutes of speaking to take notes on each other. Conversations were clustered and difficult to understand due to people talking over each other. The overall atmosphere was generally uncomfortable, but proved to be humorous.