Before moving to a space habitat, everyone will have to go through a orientation much like the one freshmen have to go through. These is my thoughts on how a space habitat’s orientation should be organized based on my experiences in Columbia’s New Student Orientation Program (NSOP).
I live in a single dorm room, but I have made really good friends with my neighbors, the person across from me and her neighbors. On Tuesday I will meet my Engineering group project group. I will be pulling many all nighters with them. Those two groups of people will be the people who I will be working with. These people are the people who will have the most impact on my college experience.
These people where not in my orientation group.
There are ten people total in my orientation group. There was one person I really talked to for more then 20 minuets, the rest I don’t see outside of the meetings. The orientation program put us through some awkward stuff and we would have been close if we saw each other outside the awkward stuff. My orientation group should have been my dorm neighbors or my engineering team. If the lesson my NSOP was applied to a space habitat, the orientation group should be made up of the work teams. The life support staff should be trained together, the engineering teams should be trained together, and visitors should go through training together. We miss a great bonding activity that will increase team productivity when training occurs in random groups.
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-Do random orientation groups increase the social networks of space inhabitants?
-Is there a point to random orientation groups?
In Case You Skimmed
-Orientation groups can increase productivity if the group is made up of people who will work together.
