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Group Projects
no sane person
Likes group projects and I'm convinced the teachers give out group projects as a weird sick form of torture
You have to work with people that you'd never talked to in the first place and some people that you never even knew existed
Everyone has different and contradicting ideas that can't be settled by beating someone with a bat
There's a high chance that you'll have to be a good percentage of the project
Well the other half of the group writes their name and say they helped by blinking and somehow you'll be graded as a group
No matter how much or how little work you did in the first place cause-cause that sounds completely fair
I personally don't even mind group projects anymore
Since I've fully accepted the fact that I might actually have to sacrifice myself
Along with my firstborn child for extra work whenever I work with a group of freeloading monkeys
Most of my college courses has been torturing us to do group projects back-to-back to numb us-
I mean, I mean prepare us for the outside world. So at this point it was even really a big deal anymore
Not everyone that you're gonna work with it's gonna be completely terrible group works can go smoothly when everyone's on the same page
Regardless you get used to the different type of people that you end up with when you have to work in groups
The leader, the person that needs to make sure that every part of the task is done
Taking the role of the leader even though there was no appointed leader in the first place. They are high key a control freak
That doesn't listen to anyone's opinions other than their own but safe to say nothing really gets done without them
Aka the one who'd text you during in the middle of the night asking you how you are? Where you are? And what you're doing
Right now? Like they care about you
but really just wants to know if you're getting the project done and
Don't be shocked. If you find a GPS on you at one point throughout the project. The M.I.A (Missing in Action)
This is a kid that never shows up to class
You're not even sure if they're alive or not, but safe to say they show up once in a blue moon
Then again, you don't even know if they'll show up on presentation day
So you don't even trust them with a task cause that's just straight-up gambling. The extra baggage
These are the ones that you want to slap some senses into because they literally offer little to no help to the group
They're usually super lazy and could care less
You can task them with breathing and they'll somehow still have an excuse and start suffocating halfway through a sentence
The artsy one
this is
generally where I fall into
this is the one and only time that we get chosen first for anything. If there's anything that needs to be drawn or made to
look pretty. Give them glue and markers and they'll make anything look presentable, but fair warning, don't touch the art.
They might just bite your hand off. The volunteer speaker. Usually
and I say usually that the person that
voluntarily elects themselves as speaker
Assumes that they don't have to do any work at all because they have to speak in front of the class
All right. Nice work everyone. Lets first some person look good. In fact, I hope my presenting your-I mean
our work. But if the teacher asks anything, you guys got it, right?
The clueless one. They don't even know that they are part of your group. They just kind of stare into space and exist.
So with that said I had a group project for storyboarding class in college
This is one of those long haul group projects
Which pretty much takes up the whole semester and you have to do a presentation in the end
I ended up working with Kermit, who was very outspoken and pretty much had an opinion on everything
Ghost, who rarely talked and usually never showed up for class and
Coconut, who barely spoke English so there was a little bit of a language barrier and
Then there is me and I'm not gonna say that I'm the perfect groupmate
because I'm not and then know for a fact that I'm probably the worst choice for a
Speaker. On the other hand, I can make things look really pretty with an 80% chance of burning things by accident
Okay. Yes
I accidentally burnt one of my projects and almost burned down my kitchen
But it's okay because we got an A. The first couple of weeks of our projects were brainstorm weeks
We usually had an hour from class where we brainstormed our stories. Every week, we would present our ideas to our professor .
We'll name him professor X because this bald head was legit brighter than my future. The first week the group threw around some ideas
Kermit took the role of self-appointed leader and didn't listen to anyone's input then went to present his brilliant game changing when
One-of-a-kind ideas. Safe to say professor
X shut down Kermit's amazing Disney show ripoffs. The following week that decided that every week
We'll all come up with ideas for our stories and we'll come back and present the top four ideas.
That way we can all split up the workload without having to meet up after class on top of our already busy
7 plus classes schedule, also if someone can't make it, cough cough ghost cough cough,
We'll still have work to hand in. So we had this group project
Down packed for about 5 weeks or so. Ghost already missed a couple weeks, but everything went smooth as butter
Well one day I couldn't make its class because ya girl had a job interview at Apple
You know
I really had to get a job because I'm pretty sure my inside was slowly disintegrating from eating nothing but Doritos and coke
also
We had to buy two hundred plus dollars worth of mandatory books for each class that we only used like once or twice
One of my professors even made us buy his own damn book like why is that even allowed?
My interview was super last minute
So I ended up missing my class, you know, either miss a class or try to get a job. No brainer, right?
Plus we've already had a system. So my group was gonna be fine. Yeah, that was my first mistake
So after my job interview
I want to get lunch with my friends and I got an email from Professor X pretty much stating how irresponsible
I am for missing the class
I'm pretty sure that I'm allowed to miss at least two classes per course
and I'm sure that other people miss class before but okay as I read on it said how
Irresponsible I am for missing the class when I was responsible for the group's story for the week
If I can just email the group's
files to the professor and since I didn't show up to class that I will get points deducted from my grades because I let the group
down by taking
responsibility for holding on to their work and not showing up and
I will get, hear this, a big fat zero on my assignment even if I send in to work
So I can learn to be more responsible for my actions
Um
Excuse me
See, I'm usually not the type of person that gets heated, but boy I was heated
I mean I had my work that I've done
100% by me with no help from my group whatsoever. But if I hand it in Imma get a big fat
voluptuous zero
Plus points deducted from my grades. How does that even make sense?
I just missed one class and upon further research, AKA my other classmates spilled mad tea
during lunch. Hey, yo
Professor X just emailed me
What happened in class. Oh
Your group completely threw you under the bus. It was a train wreck, Kermit went up and it was a
Complete and utter mess. When everything went to shiiiiiii
Girl they just ended up blaming you on everything and I mean everything
So with this newfound boiling tea of information
I rewrote my story ideas just so I can write my name in big giant letters. Cause this bish did all the work
and I ain't about sit down and then my work get points deducted and get a big ol zero
while my group gets a mother trucking A for
breathing Oh
Sweetie. No, I'm not about to be anyone's scapegoat for their own laziness. No, uh-uh
We don't play. So ya girl send an email to her professor explaining the situation
And I kind of went on a rogue mission here, if I'm going down with this trainwreck of a group project
I'm dragging my whole group down.
Thanks for throwing me under the bus, but we're all going down together fools, you know
like a group. Sadly Professor X wouldn't let me change groups and still gave points to my group for
Doing absolutely nothing other than breathing but I didn't get points deducted or a zero
But Professor X also ended up knowing what was up, you know?
I need you best bet that I went through the whole semester with a smile. So heard y'all did really
Well last week. Want to tell me about it?
I still somehow ended up with a good chunk of the work after the fact so each and every week I
plastered my name on anything I've ever done and I was really obnoxious with it every single page every
single drawing then I worked on had my name on it up until presentation day. No shame whatsoever
We even had sample characters that we gave back to the class on
Presentation day and yeah on the back of every single printout. I had my name on it.
I did 90% of the group work, 90% of the slides and presenting
Yeah, the whole class is gonna know and in hindsight
Maybe it was hella petty on my end
But I'm just not about backstabbery.
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