<p>I just saw a post about poster projects which I don't really mind them if I'm alone but I HATE group projects. Usually I'm stuck doing all the work and having to hear annoying opinions from others in the group. For me I like to do my own thing because I like all the credit going to me. I guess it's kind of cocky but I don't like sharing my A's!</p>
<p>I like group projects, because I like working with people and taking the lead.
But there are times they make me want to pull my hair out.
One time, I got a D on a project because another group member decided not to show up on the day it was due with their part of the project. So, yeah, that’s a time when group projects are frustrating.
Think about it, though. Life is a group project. You’re going to have to work with clients, employees, and employers in order to succeed. Why not start being good at it in high school?</p>
<p>@floridagirl13: I agree 100%</p>
<p>It depends on who I’m working with. If the teachers lets us pick the groups, I’ll work with some friends who I know are responsible so then we have no problem gettin an A. But if I get put in a group with a bunch of deadbeat slackers, it can be extremely frustrating.</p>
<p>True, if it’s my friends I don’t mind.</p>
<p>I am the same with not liking to share the A if nobody else did work. When I can work with my friends it is no problem/they don’t usually slack off, but when I am put with somebody who slacks off/does not know the material it is very frustrating.</p>
<p>I love working in group projects at school, but sometimes it’s hard for me because I start talking to much, and no one gets work done. That’s sorta how anything at school is: Something that takes me and an hour at school takes me ten minutes when I’m home alone. But still I love working in groups and manage to muster up some seriousness, and get it done.</p>
<p>Group projects that require work at home are different case. If that’s the case I just want to do all of the work that’s at home so I don’t have to rely on others. For some partners that’s a blessing, but some people also want to do all of it. If the person is intent on doing the work, I usually give up without a fight, but if they want to so bad, then theyll actually finish it. When I do it at home, I usually procrastinate till the last day, and get a million facebook messages from everyone involved asking if its done yet lol. I’ve never not finished a group project; it’s just usually at last minute.</p>
<p>I do, because no matter how it goes there’s always an imbalance on group work.</p>
<p>I’ll either take charge and do everything myself without letting anyone do anything, or i’ll feel like i’m not doing enough. The people I work with never stop me from doing anything, and don’t say anything when I do nothing. It’s a lose-lose situation for everyone involved.</p>
<p>I may hate group projects at the moment I just had a really bad experience</p>
<p>I do work when it makes sense to do it. So if we have 3 weeks to do a project that really won’t take 3 hours I put it off a week.
Normally this is fine who cares? But group freakin projects.
Last one I did a girl ‘took lead’. Fine whatever I wasnt getting home until after 8 each day that week I didn’t want to do any extra work.
In total she sent me over 30 texts reminding me to ‘do the project’ she set unrealistic deadlines and was a total pain in the butt.
The best part about this is my GPA is better then hers. Her best subject is French (which is the subject the project was in) and fine that’s great if you want to do really well but my part was A worthy. And cos French is an all level class the grading was ridiculously easy. So I didn’t need to spend hours and hours on the project.
I couldn’t and still do well in my other classes (like I said that week I was busy )
Which anyone sane would have accepted. If she was really was concerned she would have done her part of the project and then offered to help with mine. (I wouldn’t have accepted her help but it would have shown that she wasn’t just being bossy to be bossy)
OH! And once a week had a piano lesson and complained about. She honest to Merlin thought we should all schedule when work was due around her half an hour piano lesson. Have a mentioned yet THAT I HAD 5 hours of stuff to do
We got 100% on the project even though I didn’t turn in my half in until last minuet. (this may or may not been out of spite and I may have completed it all before she had even started hers)</p>
<p>I HATE doing group projects. I hate hate hate hate hate it! No one ever likes what I have to say and do. Plus people in my group never could agree on one thing that could work! </p>
<p>I’m more of an independent student.</p>
<p>^ is last apprentice a book series?</p>
<p>I can’t remember or not. </p>
<p>i never liked projects that extended beyond the classroom especially. if it was just a one-day thing during class i was okay with that. I went to a school where most people were proactive in getting things done, so on group projects i often felt kind of weird about letting other people do nearly everything. but they seemed okay with it. the downside to me was not them unfairly doing more, but me being perceived like someone who did not contribute.</p>
<p>I really wonder how you guys will handle the workforce. In every job, you have to rely on somebody else to be doing their part for your job to function. You may work in a sales group in an office setting. Or you may own a business that relies on the manufacturer getting their product to you in a timely manner. </p>
<p>Perhaps part of the reason why other people in the group don’t work is because they know you’ll take up most of the task? A good team leader assigns parts of the project to individual members and sets deadlines. Sometimes a person will want to “take over” the whole thing and when that happens with me, I just let them do it - no need to expend more work than necessary. It really is impractical to assume that everybody in your group is a “deadbeat” who won’t work. People work - you just have to push them with goals and deadlines.</p>
<p>I hate group projects. I’ve only had ONE group project EVER where I didn’t end up doing the majority of the work (it was my one friend). I remember a few years ago, I had to do a group project with two of my (slower) friends. We had to look up information about like ten olympic events–I think I put them in charge of finding the information for two of the events each, which gave me six to do AND the powerpoint. We only had the class time to do it. They were literally playing games on the computer the entire time and I had to do all the work, even their parts. At the end of the class, they said, “Ugh, he never gives us enough time to do these projects.” Luckily, I had managed to throw together all the information (the project was pretty bad) and I (well, “we”, but you know) managed to get a B. :(</p>
<p>I don’t like group projects cause I usually don’t like the people in my classes much.</p>
<p>I hate group projects because I inevitably end up with people who don’t do their parts. I also hate presenting, so any project that involves it, I hate.</p>
<p>the secret to how people handle the workforce when it seems like they wouldn’t is plainly that they don’t handle it i think.</p>
<p>one one level the workforce is, on a whole, less demanding of the individual then one might speculate if they grew up learning about the supreme diligence of adults. so there is simply less to handle then you might think.</p>
<p>on another level what they have to sometimes handle instead - tedium, tiredness, dark rooms, too bright rooms, overwhelming apathy - is more draining to the individual then one might have expected. this stuff simply cannot be said to be handled at all because if it was handled it wouldn’t exist. this is where people in the workforce are out of their depths with how to handle their work most. </p>
<p>in case you like thomas jefferson, i think it’s him who this nice quote is attributed to about how many people will tolerate significant levels of oppression. the evidence of those things invading so many people’s work lives seems to be one thing that attests to that quote.</p>
<p>No joke in my class (Class of 2013) at my school there was a group project so bad that everyone agreed to never talk about it again. People got in fist fights, friendships wer forever broken, it was just insane.</p>
<p>This is why i establish myself as a lazy bum that “happens” to get good grades and ace all the tests. Group projects they never expect anything of me (granted i choose the overachievers) and i just do my part never more.</p>
<p>:))))))</p>
<p>@ptontiger I really agree; that’s what I was thinking about all these group project haters too.</p>
<p>I hate them, unless my group actually does the work. In middle school, nobody in my class really cared about grades, so I ended up doing all the work for them and having to share the A. Although some teachers have an overall group score, and then an individual grade based on how much each person contributed to the success of the project. Now, though, it’s not that bad in honors classes, since most kids there actually care.</p>