Rant: Group Projects in School

[Jocephus]

IIRC, the few times i had group projects in college, the work was kinda, made to be split in 3s, 4s, whatever, so each person would have a specific thing to research/do... then the professor would clearly know who did their share of the work or not

but yeah i always hated group work...shouldn't be like the apprentice and we have to fight off each other before "trump" gives us our grade

[cardinalkarp]

IIRC, the few times i had group projects in college, the work was kinda, made to be split in 3s, 4s, whatever, so each person would have a specific thing to research/do... then the professor would clearly know who did their share of the work or not

but yeah i always hated group work...shouldn't be like the apprentice and we have to fight off each other before "trump" gives us our grade

And that definitely was the case...we each had a portion of the paper to write (about a page each, which is NOTHING, so I was baffled as to why a one page paper couldn't be cranked out in an hour, two at the most) & then had to come up w/ some PowerPoint slides & present them. The issue was that it's pretty hard to turn in a paper of 5 individual pieces of work so I had volunteered to help put the paper together and make it blend from one topic to the next (of course this was when everything was supposed to be in by Monday night, not Wednesday night at 9pm when class was the next day). Luckily, I have a job that allows me to do homework while working because it took me about 3 hours to put together the pieces of [expletive] these people gave me. What's scary is that this is the "capstone" class which means everyone in it is about to graduate....some of writing mistakes they made were embarrassing.

Then comes the fact that only one person gave me the sources in which they used to gather the info and I had to explain a handful of times that they had to get me the sources they used & where to cite the source in their portion of the paper...it was like pulling teeth...I'm pretty sure if I hadn't been the one putting it together they would've pretty much plagiarized their entire portion, which at this level I'm pretty sure the teacher would frown upon.

[Jocephus]

that sounds incredibly frustrating.

[cardinalkarp]

that sounds incredibly frustrating.

Well, it's over and done w/ now! I was plesently surprised at how well the presentation went...but man, that paper would've been a freaking disaster.

In these days of constant text messaging & quick emails, writing has become a lost art.