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Why do teachers always say that group projects prepare us for the real world? That reasoning may have worked when I was a naive high schooler and college student, but I’ve been in the real world for quite some time now, and it isn’t nearly as annoying as group projects.
Here are my usual team members:
1. The over-eager over-achiever who invents a new day so you can meet 8 times a week
2. The slacker who’s work you do and isn’t even nice about it
3. The girl (sorry girls, it’s usually you!) with zero opinion whatsoever
4. The foreign exchange student who doesn’t speak english
I’m taking night classes now for a professional certificate, and the teacher gave us a group project. Luckily, everyone this time around is pretty cool. But we all have full time jobs, we’re just taking these crappy night classes to make our resumes look better. We don’t have time to coordinate group projects, especially when you don’t give us time in class to work on the projects with our group. Arg!
Okay. Rant over.
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:18 pm
And you HAVE to blog, too. Jeez!
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Your list of usual team members is frighteningly similar to mine! Glad that you didn’t get stuck with the usual suspects this time around. Still, group projects are less than fun. Good luck!
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:51 pm
You clearly need an over-eager-over achiever to magically create more time for you all!
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Don’t get me started.
I’m also in group project hell right now. All with full time jobs and other obligations, now we have to find time outside of class to meet?
The reasoning in college was always, “We do group projects because employers are telling us that graduates don’t know how to work in groups.”
You know how many group projects I’ve done since graduating college? ZERO!! The only things I’ve ever done that could be considered group projects are those collaborative things where everyone had a given job and if they didn’t do it, they got fired. In college, you got a lower grade unless you picked up the slack of the people who didn’t do any work.
Grad school should never include group projects when we all have real life to deal with. Just sayin’.
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:52 pm
As a guy who fits #2 to a tee, I’d say something here….but I think I’ll wait for you to say it for me. bitch.
HUGS…
November 2nd, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Group projects are the biggest crock of shit ever forced upon students. I always wound up getting fucked over and had to do the entire project myself. Like you said, no one has the time to meet up for these projects. You go to school and then you go to work and when you arn’t working or at school you’re sleeping from how exhausted you are.
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:51 pm
How ironic…my current Calculus group is made up of some of those people…(except me, the girl, is pretty much the “normal” one) We’ve got a foreign student, a jock, and…
… the jailbird. One of the guys in my group just got arrested, and may be facing jail time. The jock just stopped showing up, so now it’s me and the foreign guy. *sigh* I hate group projects.
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Have you seen the commercial for Kinkos? A group is getting ready for a presentation and the leader rattles off each team members weakness. Very funny but oh so true. I always hated group projects, you do the other guy’s job and he gets the same grade.
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:08 am
I agree with you and everyone else about “group projects”. It’s pretty much more proof that most high school teachers and college professors have no clue about what goes on in “the real world”.
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:04 am
No time in class? What sort of crack is she on anyway?
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I would say… That is a good pet peeve to have…
Night school and giving a group assignment?
What’s she smokin’?
November 4th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Agreed. Bossy does not play well with others.
November 5th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
That can’t possibly be the group you’re always with because that’s the group I was always stuck with and I never saw you there. Maybe you’re my descendent in the group?
November 6th, 2007 at 6:09 am
Group projects are a wonderful way to make new friends, especially if you are running out of parts from the old ones.
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
As a probably #1, I HATE GROUP PROJECTS. I’m the one that organizes most of it, works on my stuff, finds out no one else has started, and does their stuff too. Then when we get a B- on everything, everyone whines. I’m really trying to find out how to make money as a hermit when I get older so I don’t have to put up with people. (I’ll have internet on my island… That’s all the connection I need. >D)