O to be a project manager...I can't fathom why anyone would want this job. I didn't want it. I got drafted and now there's contention in the ranks and I don't know what to do. It's funny how some people think we have a really hard job and others say that we aren't doing our part (us being the project managers). I, frankly, am at a loss as to what course to take. I think we're not really supposed to do any of the work, just make sure that everyone else does it, and we just step in to answer questions and when arguments come up, we're supposed to mediate - or at least, this is what my professors led me to believe. I don't know, maybe I'm already doing too much, or truly not enough. Getting everyone in the same room is no easy task though, that's for sure, so I have to wait till studio tomorrow to organize everyone for the weekend. Hopefully the professors won't be too displeased that it took us this long. I think the worst part of being the project coordinator is when your friends that have to work under you are displeased with you...it really hurts.
On the bright side, working with my coordinator partner has been interesting. I don't think I spoke more than a sentence to him ever before this project, but we had a very nice conversation about asian institutions (corporal punishment is effective, you have to admit - it's just not very nice) and good god, he's smart...