Campaign Fail

Collaborating and working together can be good or bad. They say never to mix business with pleasure and in this episode they do just that! OH NO....
Jake has always ran for student council at school but now that he's dating Tamara and has her as his girlfriend she feels the need to help him win this year. She decides to make posters and cupcakes for the student body but Jake isn’t really into it, since he’s won previous years and didn’t go all out.

Jake cares about student council because it’s the only thing he has to define him, but he doesn’t perform that because he doesn’t want people to know his level of insecurity. He cares enough to do his job well but like many high school students fears caring too much.

We know how Tamara can be, and Jake being her boyfriend she feels it's her job to make sure her boyfriend Jake wins. With her crafty side she collaborates with her love for glitter pens to make sure he gets the votes he needs. Making sure to tell Ming to get the Asian Mafia on board to make posters and t-shirts for Jake. As they’re making posters at Tamara’s house, Tamara being totally excited about making posters she sees Jake isn’t as excited a she and explains that he needs her in order to win. Jake thinks otherwise and tells her she’s wrong and Tamara is someone who needs to prove a point. She’s doing it when she launches an aggressive, play on words driven campaign against Jake. She tells him that she's running for president too. Because she feels that making posters and bribing is key to winning. Unlike Jake thinking just because he's popular he'll get nominated.

Tamara made a bunch of posters nominating herself for president. With her spare time, she also makes buttons. While Jake makes t-shirts telling people to vote for him, and has the football team collaborate in the run for president AND with the help of the Asian Mafia since she never called that off with Ming. He eats an uppercase T cookie that Tamara made and says it taste like defeat, Tamara responds that her fist is too. She doesn’t realize that she’s threatening the one thing he feels defines him, and when she wins it signals the end of their relationship.

Tamara started off wanting to help Jake but ended up making things worse. She thought collaborating ideas together that she had in mind and sharing both their ideas that she felt were interesting that would make Jake open to trying it something new to achieve his goal for president. Collaboration needs leadership and Jake felt like Tamara was taking over.
This week in class we're collaborating ideas in groups and working towards our next essay, I hope this isn't the case for us where we don't agree on something and go against each other, becoming selfish with ideas we may come across! I'm hoping we're all able to work together and help each other to receive a decent grade on our final paper! Wish us luck.
XOXO
Jacqueline V. :)