Attending mediation workshop was an accident. Looking for another workshop, i landed up in the wrong room where this workshop was taking place. I hadn’t realized it until good 20 minutes into the workshop. The workshop was a bit interesting but no help at all. We were divided into groups and given a scenario to be acted out in which we had to pick a mediator, a person who has a problem and one person associated with the problem. The scenarios consisted of, unfair grading by a professor, too much work load by a professor, cheating in classroom, unable to meet deadlines. Although we did only went over all the skits, the purpose of the workshop was still questionable. I feel the reason for the workshop was to teach how to deal with problems without dealing them in a hostile manor. it is indeed better to speak to a 3rd person and seek advice rather than taking the matter into you own hands and approaching it with anger. one must also make an attempt to work out a way reaching a compromise in which both parties are at comfort. This is what i got from the workshop as it was unclear. It would have been better if the workshop was longer and more clear in its goals.