Group projects.

[Saryka]

I complain frequently about having to do group assignments for school because I prefer to work alone. They are the bane of my existence. So I ask you, PC: How do you feel about school group projects? Do you like them, or not? Do you find you work better alone or with others?

A thousand arrows to the knee for whoever list-answers these!

 

[Lara]

During my younger years, specifically around my high school days, and before, I wasn't comfortable during group projects. I would just let my partners do the talking and I'd do my part without complaining or giving out ideas. I was extremely timid and the thought of having to present the project afterward scared the hell out of me. So, I would set-up the cardboard thingies and stuff and let someone else orally present the project. I preferred working alone, of course, but it wasn't optional, so yeah.

However, now in university, group projects are pretty common, so I had to adapt to working with others, and I did. I now prefer working with others to working alone. I'm still somehow timid, but I'm getting there.

 

[Overlord Drakow]

^ Pretty much the same with the whole younger years and university thing. It's all about adaptability as you get older. Being able to work independent and with other people is a very useful skill to have. Even now though, I do have a preference towards working alone but I won't be too fussed if I have to do group projects and such.

 

[Ritzz]

In college now, the work is harder and actually requires more collaboration with your peers, at least for me. So I like group projects. I might not know the material and I can get help from other group members.

 

[champagnepapi]

• How do you feel about school group projects?
  
  I think they're alright lol. As long as you have friends in your class, otherwise it kinda sucks xP.
  
  
• Do you like them, or not?
  
  This question is sorta redundant with the first one but yeah they're p cool xD
  
  
• Do you find you work better alone or with others?
  
  Depends lol.

 

[Beelzebub]

I dislike them. Even if the work is really hard, I'd prefer to work on it by myself if I have an option to. I feel that if I'm working in a group I have to share my ideas out loud (and most of the time, get ignored when I do) when I'd rather think it out in my head.

 

[Mr Cat Dog]

Group projects are great in that responsibility can be divided amongst team members and there's much higher potential to sit back and coast off of others' work. I'd always welcome group projects in school for this very reason: I was good at manipulating my team mates into doing more work while I sat back and reaped the rewards. For things that I actually care about, on the other hand, I guess I'd prefer to work individually... mainly to know that I could be completely certain about the end result: that certainty tends to diminish when working in a group scenario, from experience.

 

[psyanic]

More times than not, I end up doing most of the work in group projects. Probably my rotten luck because I always get people who seem to trust me the most and decide that it's okay to slack off until the day it's due. I can still work in groups and I don't necessarily hate it.

 

[Ayselipera]

It's one of those things where you either luck out or you don't. You're either going to get a group with all your friends or at least one friend so you can stay sane or you get a group where everyone is fighting, full of people who do all the work, or full of people who cbf to do anything.

Unless I have friends in the classroom I hate doing group projects. People who don't really know me always assume I won't do any work which is probably because I'm either sleeping on the desk, playing on my phone, or talking, but regardless I'll do work when it's handed to me. Either way it works out pretty well for me since because people assume that they don't even bother to assign me anything and I usually get away with just reading a short paragraph in front of the class if that.

 

[Alley Cat]

I dislike them because I tend to end up doing all the work, so I don't fail, and my group mates are just along for the ride. I can't really get at mad at them though, because I'd do the same thing, find someone smarter and more diligent to do the project for me, but I'm pretty much already at the top on the smarts thing. Diligence... not so much. Aha. I've found the key is to find someone who doesn't mind doing busy work or is good at taking instructions and will do everything that you tell them. So you know the material will be good, and you don't have to be bothered with the work :b. If it is an easy enough assignment, and I just want to get it done, I tend to work alone if allowed. By the time everyone has found a partner, I'm usually halfway done with whatever the bloody assignment was anyway. :)

It's hardly a challenge at my school... all of it just busy work.

 

[Shining Raichu]

I hate group projects so much because I am both a perfectionist and a submissive person, which means that I will want the project to be perfect but too nice to say anything about it if I don't like how other people are handling it... so it just becomes an exercise in frustration.

In any case, I work best alone. I'm not really much for collaboration on work that actually matters. If I'm going to succeed, I want all the credit and if I fail, it's going to be at my own hand. Though I guess one of the good parts about group work is the ability to share blame if it goes south.

 

[Nick]

Depends on the people. I've been in groups where I would usually consider others to be people who are just along for the ride, and I've been in groups where I did all the work. I've been in groups where I told someone that their idea was stupid and that we were going to do it my way because I was the top student out of the bunch, and I've been in groups where I didn't lift a finger or contribute an idea at all.

I work better alone, and prefer to work alone. Like a lot of others, I'm a perfectionist. Especially when it comes to projects for school. I like having a say in everything, and I don't like it when people ignore what I have to say about something or how it should be done. Most of the time, I think my idea on how to do something is better than everyone else's, and there have been times when I split up from the group and worked completely on my own and did my own project, which to this day I still consider that somewhat badass, especially since I told them that I did so because of creative differences! The teachers weren't very happy about that, since the purpose of group assignments is to see how you work in a group, but I don't regret it.

Besides, I think most teachers don't put the effort into picking the groups. They either make an effort to keep you away from your friends, and stick you with people who are in a different social circle with you (usually one that tends to stereotypically rival yours [face it, we're all stereotyped and placed in a social circle in school]), or they let you to choose your group, and you end up choosing the people you're familiar with: your friends. They should be more observant of the people and what they have to offer to a group, and choose that way, rather then strictly deciding the groups based on who you may or may not talk to.

 

[Mew~]

I don't mind it at all. But, that is, only if the other person is willing to work with me properly. I hate it when people complain about not liking the other person. Or make them do all the work.

I quite enjoy working in groups during class, it's an interesting way of seeing another persons views on the topics and putting information together. etc..

stick you with people who are in a different social circle with you (usually one that tends to stereotypically rival yours [face it, we're all stereotyped and placed in a social circle in school]),

I honestly think sometimes this can be a good thing, or at least that's how I see it. It's a way of socialising with people you don't usually do, especially the shy people. (me)

 

[2Cool4Mewtwo]

I like group projects, because it helps me to prepare for my future jobs (software engineering, programing...) and I can get to know my friends better sometimes.

 

[Martins]

I don't mind them. Through my high school days, there wasn't a time when our teacher would randomly choose a group; rather we compose our own groups which was great. So, I'd choose the people closest to me or who share similar ideas or something like that.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

I don't mind them, but maybe that's just because I don't ever recall being in a group where someone was a slacker. I never had a problem with someone else in the group not pulling their weight. I suppose if I had, I'd think differently on the subject, because I am not one to enjoy being brought down by another person's negligence.

But they're fine with the right partners since you can focus on one specific aspect of the project instead of having to try to do all aspects of it yourself.

 

[Dopefish7590]

I don't mind group projects. As for how I usually act, it highly depends on who I am working with... I am timid by nature, but if I know who I am working with, I usually take the role of the leader.

 

[TRIFORCE89]

I hate hate hate hate group assignments. If my university experience has taught me one thing, it's that I hate people XD Good lord why are these people at university? How do they make it to third year or fourth year, or now the graduate level? They know nothing at all and are totally unreliable. I always wind up with the worst pairing of people.

 

[Overlord Drakow]

I usually ended up putting in most of the effort for group work to try and make sure the group would get a decent mark. That concept becomes increasingly difficult at university though because there is just so much work that it becomes ridiculous for one or two people to try and take on the whole burden.

 

[PlatinumDude]

I'm actually okay with working in a group in projects; I have a hard time working on my own.