The Sustainable Harvest Project went very well; although we waited until the last possible day to do the project (mostly a result of a lack of time and difficulty in finding time where we were all available) we feel that it was completed successfully and well understood. The first few questions were fairly easy and didn't take long to solve, but the last question proved to be a bit more difficult for us, but nonetheless was completed without much trouble (creating the spreadsheets to find answers was honestly the most time consuming part).
Our success may have been due to our ability to work well together; communication was strong and despite being in a pinch, we got everything done within a few hours (including an hour gym break!). In the future, I hope that we work together again, or at least with similar hard working people. We corrected each other where it was needed, worked hard, and divided work equally. Neither of us had a particular "role" either; with each question, we were typically on the same direction of thought and if there was any issue with the result of a question, we'd all work toward the answer individually to insure its correctness or check each other's work. The write-up was about the only area where we had assigned roles; we each took a section and answered it.
At this point, I think I'm confident enough with discrete time modeling that if given a problem similar to this project, I could work it out. It now comes relatively easy to me, though I would still need to reference my notes when it comes to putting equations into general solution form when dealing with linear or difference equations, though linear difference equations I can do without much difficulty since I've been working with them more recently.
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