<p>So. I have this group project due this Thursday and I'm working with a friend of mine. My teacher actually let us work alone or with another partner. Usually when this happens, I'll will choose to work on my own because I HATE GROUP PROJECTS! but then my friend came up to me and said: "hey, you wanna work together"? so I said "yes". </p>
<p>I started the project already and I emailed and called her yesterday to see if she could do some research with me but she said "hmm...how about tomorrow. I'm watching TV right now. I'll call you" I was really angry when I heard that so I said "fine". Right now, I'm actually almost done with the project and she still haven't call me back yet... >:(</p>
<p>So.. should I just work alone and tell my friend to start working on hers now? I don't really know how I can say it to her because I don't want to be mad at me or something... </p>
<p>I mean, ask her nicely that you want to work now, not later. If she says not, then tell her to work alone because she's not being cooperative. Sure she's your friend, but is she being a friend by not working with you.</p>
<p>She's watching TV, so what? Unless the project's due tomorrow there's plenty of time; seems like you're the one rushing it. It's a weekend for one to enjoy, and you getting mad just because she's doing so and not comforming to your schedule? </p>
<p>I may have missed something due to skimming a post, but it doesn't seem like a big deal imo.</p>
<p>Okay, telling your friend that you want to work alone is NOT going to "hurt your friendship." Just tell her that you're already practically done with it, so it was basically like a single-person project anyway, so if she doesn't put any input into the project reaaaally soon, you're going to be done without her. Then she gets to do her own project.</p>
<p>Argh. Group projects really are the worst. I have an extremely loooong story I could tell about a very recent one that went very terribly, but I should be working on a scholarship essay.. lol.</p>
<p>Group projects suck, but you got yourself into it, soooo...</p>
<p>Chill a little. It's due Thursday, not tomorrow. Work out a day, like Monday or Tuesday, to get it all done. Set a specific time and place, and make sure she doesn't have commitments on either end that would significantly limit the amount of time you have to work. If she doesn't show up to that meeting, THEN you have a problem (and in that case, do it alone. To tell your teacher or not would be up to you.). But as for now, hey, I don't blame her. If you called me over the weekend, I'd tell you the same thing.</p>
<p>I love group projects. I'm fine with my partner(s) not doing anything (or more accurately, just simply retrieving information and handing it to me and nothing else), since, if I had done it alone, I would have had to do the same amount of work. In fact, I sometimes tell them that they can chill for the day or something, so I can have time to bring the project up to my standards. Then I fill them in on changes, and it goes on.</p>
<p>And I also can't live with not knowing a certain part of the project in detail, so everything my friends come up with ends up being "edited" by me anyway. We always get As, so it's all good.</p>
<p>I hate the concept of group work because I always end up being the one who ends up doing it..</p>
<p>But it does end up working to my advantage when there are a lot of easy time consuming things I can allocate to my useless partner who are usually quite submissive and end up doing that since they feel guilty that I did everything else. I mean I rather use my a little bit then waste my time :)</p>
<p>AeroEngineer - I agree with what you said, and that always happens to me as well, BUT I hate this! Those other people shouldn't get a grade as high as I should, especially if they put almost nothing into the project. I'm always just such a perfectionist that I can't stand to put up with mediocre work, so I end up doing everything anyway.. which is why I always try and get out of doing group work.. rughwlke</p>
<p>i can't afford to let my group members in a "group project" do ANYTHING. ever.
i have had more than one time when they blatantly copied and pasted all their information from wikipedia and handed it to me without any proper citation.
other times when the first sentence had five grammatical errors. and the rest of the paragraph was even worse.
other times when they just DIDNT BRING IT on the day we were to paste it all together (coincidentially, the day it was due)
or they forgot something that was worth 20% of our grade
they didn't citate. period.
one time i had to find citations for 12 PICTURES (thank god the teacher let me hand it in a day late without taking marks off) because they put in Google.com for each one. it turned out one wasn't even relevant at all to the project in the first place.</p>
<p><em>cue laugh :)</em>
i never liked group projects. rarely have i ever been grouped with mildly intelligent people. I have always done the work, because that is how they group us; not so good people with people who seem to do well.
oh well. i get a nice A, they get a free ride. what else is there?</p>
<p>Hmm. See, I don't mind other people getting credit for my work. As long as I hand in a good project. </p>
<p>What I do mind -- and I was in this situation once -- is when people are incompetent AND TAKE OVER. Ughhh. I expect my groupmates to either be good at what they do or to defer to those who are; when neither is the case, the results are catastrophic.</p>
<p>umm...I think I should just simply let her take the credit...</p>
<p>She didn't come to school today and I just called her to tell her what the hw are for today. She said that she'll not be coming to school for like three days because she has a flu. so I guess I'll have do most of the project myself... </p>
<p>Plus, I have four exams this week and I can't wait for her to start researching. It's a time consuming project anyway.</p>
<p>Sigh. I can't really blame her for being sick right?</p>
<p>Once I was like really I'll do half and my partner will do the other half, I'm not even going to read it if it's bad I just have to let it go because it's a GROUP. But then I got a 65, my half being 45 out of 50 and her half being worth 20 out of 50, now I always do all the work.</p>
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What I do mind -- and I was in this situation once -- is when people are incompetent AND TAKE OVER. Ughhh. I expect my groupmates to either be good at what they do or to defer to those who are; when neither is the case, the results are catastrophic.