Tuesday Wisdom Think Aloud Scenarios

"We chose to talk about planning and choice making. Regis is a high school senior and he is getting ready to graduate and move on to college, far away from his hometown. A few days before graduation, his mother fell ill and it was discovered that it was unsure how much time she had left. Regis was faced with the dilemma of choosing between attending the college of his dreams and starting his own life away from home and staying home with his family to help with his mother's illness. To make this choice, Regis must prioritize his goals. Although leaving for college is consistent with the path he has been on since 1st grade, leaving his mother may be too hard for him because of the ambiguity of her health.

Hank, a college senior graduating with a degree in Biology, has been planning to go to med school his whole life. He even has a Harvard Medical School Poster in his childhood bedroom. As he approaches graduation and the coming future he must decide whether to accept his med school admission or defer it to follow his heart and act on his peace corps assignment, which he's just been offered. Which decision would be more wise and what should he consider?

You are assigned a group project for a class that gets one grade. You have to try to figure out who does what and when to meet. You have someone in your group who is always busy and can never meet, someone who is your close friend and not doing there share of the work and continuously makes comments about getting around to it and someone who does the work but doesn't do it the right way.You don't know how to get everyone on task, delegate tasks to everyone, and get a good grade without sounding controlling. Should you sacrifice sleep and get all the work done yourself so your group gets a good grade and not have to deal with everyone or should you talk to your group and sort things out?

Regina is a student soon to be graduating college with thousands of dollars in student loans. She has been offered a job in accounting, her current major, that would pay extremely well, but she has realized that accounting is not her life calling. Her parents are both accountants and are pressuring her to remain in the field and she knows that she needs the money to pay off student loans and begin her life, but she does not want to take a job that she knows she will not be fulfilled in. What should she do?

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