Surya wrote:
Artros wrote:
I really think you handled this very well, though I understand the amounts of stress related to this. I've often just ignored the crappier group members because I don't want to go through that kind of hassle.
The main advantage you're going to have next year is that everyone else will be more serious as well. The first year of uni is generally the least serious, and the weak are weeded out more each and every year, while everyone matures.
Thank you, but I really had no choice but to do it that way.. what they were doing was way beyond simple stupidity. Near the end of the year many were weeding themselves out, switching to a single degree and other such ways.
Exactly. That means that next year will undoubtedly be better, because it's highly likely that a significant percentage of the crappy people are gone.
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Artros wrote:
*giggles*
In my first group work at uni, we would do the homework together (that was basically all there was to it). We would spend inordinate amounts of time on it. In one of our afternoons, we disagreed quite vehemently on the correct answer. The other two people in my group pushed through their opinion despite my stubbornness. I turned out to be right. To this day, we remind each other of that (but we all think it's kind of funny. It's probably very good I didn't get actually angry there, though).
Oh I haven't even got close to being angry... I really do not want to go postal.
I did receive a couple emails from members, once the marks came out with comments, apologising for not listening to me and their behaviour and hope that we could try to do projects together again this coming year. Haha.. yea right.. I will be very picky this coming year about group projects, as I can't have other individuals performance affect me.
You may actually be surprised. I once had a duo project where I worked together with a girl on an argumentative paper. We had to present it in class. She did not prepare, at all. During the presentation, she crashed and burned and I basically had to take over the entire presentation. Many people commented that it had dragged me down.
A couple of years later, we worked together on a paper and she did so much I actually started feeling guilty about not doing enough.
So, yeah, you might be surprised.
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08 Aug 2011, 9:05 pm
