I filmed this inside the hallways of my apartment complex. I didn't have to go far and I could just wait around or the residents who exited and entered the apartment through the elevators and stairwell. As they were on their way somewhere I caught them off guard.
I approached college students who lived in the apartment complex.
In order to get the conversation started, all I did was just to say Hi, and offer them the dollar.
My plan for the conversation is to be direct and blunt. Since I'm offering money, I don't want to skirt around the conversation and have it be awkward. In addition, since I don't want to take up too much of their time, I am just going to offer it to them straight-forwardly.
I think I will be able to give all of the dollars away.
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Reflection
Personally, I did not like this exercise. I don't understand why I needed to do this exercise. I don't appreciate taking my own money and having to give it away to random strangers for the concept of trying to understand the value of free money. If the class provided the money for us to give away, maybe it would be better for the students who have to do this exercise but $5 is a lot to just give away on an assignment to get nothing in return. I hope that this course has no more further assignments to give away our own money. Giving away a dollar was easier since all the college students accepted it once they realized it was real money and they were able to assume it was for some experimental assignment since I was filming them. My predictions were correct.
Good work on this assignment. This was a weird assignment in my opinion and I did not enjoy any part of it. I also did not like how we had to give out our own money, I found it kind of unacceptable. Even though it doesn't seem like a lot, money all adds up. Like you, I also filmed it where I lived except that I live on campus. I posted my blog down below.
I agree that it was a weird assignment in that it had us give away our own money. Your strategy for finding "random" participants to give your money away was a good one and I think trying to give the money to random college students is the easiest. I also gave my money away to college students and they were not very reluctant to take it. Check out my experience here: http://thomasmurphy-ent3003.blogspot.com/2016/02/free-money.html
Hey Jary,
ReplyDeleteGood work on this assignment. This was a weird assignment in my opinion and I did not enjoy any part of it. I also did not like how we had to give out our own money, I found it kind of unacceptable. Even though it doesn't seem like a lot, money all adds up. Like you, I also filmed it where I lived except that I live on campus. I posted my blog down below.
http://mitchlicht2016.blogspot.com/2016/02/my-strategy-was-to-stand-at-bottom.html
Hey Jary,
ReplyDeleteI agree that it was a weird assignment in that it had us give away our own money. Your strategy for finding "random" participants to give your money away was a good one and I think trying to give the money to random college students is the easiest. I also gave my money away to college students and they were not very reluctant to take it. Check out my experience here: http://thomasmurphy-ent3003.blogspot.com/2016/02/free-money.html