Professor: Class, go ahead and form permanent groups amongst yourselves with people you don't know

I remember doing a group presentation and one of the girls insisted on being one of the two required speakers. I usually step up and do the speaking since I'm pretty good at speeches and stuff. But in this case, I was like, alright since you want to so bad, go for it. Everything was fine until the day of the presentation.

We met up (me and the 4 other people who were in the group) to practice a few hours before to make sure everyone knew what they were going to do and say. She ended up having a panic attack and left and one of the other girls had to go hunt her down. I ended up having to speak and just had to wing it. Not fun.
 
This is preparing you for life. Every man for himself. Learn as much as you can, and do whatever you need to to get full credit and a good grade. If you need to tell the professor that you need a new group, then so be it. If you have to do it on your own, then do it. Take on the challenge. Forget those fools that don't want to learn.
 
God I hated group work in college.  There was always that one jerk who just wanted to ride your coattails.  Thankfully most of my professors gave individual grades instead of a group grade.  

The worst was having to meet up outside of regular school hours.  If it was dark outside or if it was the weekend, actually getting to that meeting was utter torture.  Especially if it was cold and snowy outside.  
 
Should've Debo'd your way into the smart kid group on some "y'all got a problem with me learning?" biz. What were they gonna do? Tell the prof they don't want you?
 
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Op all I can say is you better hope the workload aint too heavy or hope and pray the professor changes his/her mind. I failed my marketing class in a situation similar to this, got an F on the group project which was a major percentage of the grade and straight failed the course.
Another like this was back when i took freshman seminar and we had a group project to turn in on the last day, partners never showed up and had me at the front of class presenting the project by my damn self. If i had seen them dudes later that day they would've got volcano god smacked
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I've had the entire spectrum when it comes to group work. I swear there are always several different groups.

The bonding group: This is the group that I'm still cool with, til this day. Well, at least via Facebook. Our meetings lasted deep into the night. And after a while we weren't even talking about the project or studying, we're discussing what led us to this point in our lives. I swear, I would walk away from these groups understanding more about these people than I ever thought or cared to know.

The goofball group: You all meet, nothing gets accomplished. There's your typical troll, the person who has to bring up the last episode of Lost (was hot when I was in college) and throws everyone off track, or the perpetual flirting between those two members of the group - who makes everyone else uncomfortable. 2 hours have passed, and you realize you're better off completing the work on your own.

The slacker (s): Very common. As suggested in the title, you find yourself picking up a majority of the work for the group, at the hands of this person. They deserve an Oscar for their false sense of engagement in class, and when you meet face to face. Once you've worked up the courage to final confront the slacker, you walk away from the conversation with a renewed sense of "man, things are going to work out after all."...wrong, wrong! That person reverts right back to their slacking nature, only this time they're fueled with the unmotivational force of apathy, because they know you're invested in a passing grade.

The 89-90 Pistions: This group is just on it. The synergy displayed between the individuals in this group is something to sit back, and just marvel at. Of course, there is the PG of the group, they're part motivator, part strategist; but most importantly when things are unfocused in the group, they're there to cut the conversation about Jay-Z's best album to a close. Then you have the old guy in the group who slightly creeps you out, but he pulls his weight, so he's cool. Then you have the girl who I would consider the Adam Schefter of the group, this chick stays with insider information. At times, she literally brought the group back from the brinks of giving up. Finally, you have the two individual who are feeding off the the focus of the collective, so they do they're part as well.
 
iYen said:
naw, papers are.
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Papers are cool, you just have carve out the time to write them. I like to finish stuff before it's due so I won't have to rush.

Group projects are a pain depending on the group, I've been in a lazy group. Pull most the weight because I'm not trying fail.

Last group project I had was with all girls. It was like a reality show some days at the library especially in the latter part as tensions boiled over. One chick was a total ***** tho.
 
I can name one positive group experience, I got an A+.

I've had times where I was the only english speaking member of the squad and had to drop 81 pts
 
If the professor said group up with people you DIDN'T know, why didnt you group up with the smart kids???

Just because everyone else didnt follow the directions, doesn't mean you dont have to.
 
Holy **** I dodged a bullet with this group ****.

A couple weeks ago I realized that there were these 3 (VERY SMART) girls that I share literally all of my classes with, and they're all in the same group together with some other girls. The other day I asked them if they had room for one extra member and they let me in with no complaint. So I ended up with a smart group
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And just in time too; last week we were assigned a take-home group quiz and we smashed that ****
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I wrote like a 4 paragraph answer to my question to let them ****** know that I was intelligent lol.

I kind of felt bad for jumping ship with my old group but it's my senior year and I ain't ******* around with these grades son.

Today, like half an hour before class I got a group text from my OLD group (they obviously didn't delete my # yet) talking about how they needed to get started on the quiz and if anyone had the textbook. Lmfao

All of them walked into class cussing each other out and blaming each other for the F they will most undoubtedly receive
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toast1985 said:
I've had the entire spectrum when it comes to group work. I swear there are always several different groups.

The bonding group: This is the group that I'm still cool with, til this day. Well, at least via Facebook. Our meetings lasted deep into the night. And after a while we weren't even talking about the project or studying, we're discussing what led us to this point in our lives. I swear, I would walk away from these groups understanding more about these people than I ever thought or cared to know.

The goofball group: You all meet, nothing gets accomplished. There's your typical troll, the person who has to bring up the last episode of Lost (was hot when I was in college) and throws everyone off track, or the perpetual flirting between those two members of the group - who makes everyone else uncomfortable. 2 hours have passed, and you realize you're better off completing the work on your own.

The slacker (s): Very common. As suggested in the title, you find yourself picking up a majority of the work for the group, at the hands of this person. They deserve an Oscar for their false sense of engagement in class, and when you meet face to face. Once you've worked up the courage to final confront the slacker, you walk away from the conversation with a renewed sense of "man, things are going to work out after all."...wrong, wrong! That person reverts right back to their slacking nature, only this time they're fueled with the unmotivational force of apathy, because they know you're invested in a passing grade.

The 89-90 Pistions: This group is just on it. The synergy displayed between the individuals in this group is something to sit back, and just marvel at. Of course, there is the PG of the group, they're part motivator, part strategist; but most importantly when things are unfocused in the group, they're there to cut the conversation about Jay-Z's best album to a close. Then you have the old guy in the group who slightly creeps you out, but he pulls his weight, so he's cool. Then you have the girl who I would consider the Adam Schefter of the group, this chick stays with insider information. At times, she literally brought the group back from the brinks of giving up. Finally, you have the two individual who are feeding off the the focus of the collective, so they do they're part as well.
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Repped, nothing like realizing you're in the 89-90 Pistons group.

The worst is when you miss a day and that happens to be a day that your professor decides to add a group project and you're in the weak group by default when you comeback :smh: have you feeling like Bron the last game in Cleveland before he headed to south beach
 
I lived for group projects where no one does work. i don't trust most people to do things how i would and i was damn

perfectionist when it came to projects due to my pops being an administrator/teacher his whole life. craziest part was

my junior year in high school after i had come back from being kinda kicked out for smoking i aced a project and my teacher

straight up told me she was surprised at how good it was. man **** that ***. :smh: but yeah anyway to answer the question: no.

I like doing all the work. :lol:
 
Cant remember if it was a guy or girl but they got stabbed during summer school for ******* up the project :lol: ...campus was shutdown on that side and obviously it was all over the news
 
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Only remember one group project for a communications class. Solid group of 4 minus one dude that never showed up for meetings or answer emails until the last minute. We each did x amount of slides and of course his were the worst.

The presentation went well enough but the best part was the grade was based heavily on the grades we gave our other group members. We werent complete ***** but gave dude a C and everyone else got an A. Dude barely showed up to class anyway.

Group projects definitely prepare you for life after school. There will almost always be a weak link.
 
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