does anyone here hate group project??

[Belldandy]

I don't just not like group projects / work in a school setting; they actuall trigger anxiety attacks for me (panic, hyperventilation, irrational fear, palpitations, etc.) I have a medical note that exempts me from group work at university.

It's not so much working in a group. I have trust issues, sure, but I'm fine with it at work. It's the harm that can be done (as well as the freeloading, but to a lot lesser extent). Most people are ecstatic to receive an 85% on a project. Some are happy with 70%. Some are happy just to ride by and pass, and that's all their intentions are. I don't trust people to be as motivated and goal-oriented as me, where anything less than a 90% is unsatisfactory. Plus, their input is more likely (from my experience) to harm the overall project due to either being too complex, too off-the-charts or just irrelevant, or they think it'd be "cool" when it's a big shoot and miss on the objective. I shouldn't have to risk my scholarships or GPA because people are either unmotivated or unrealistic.

 

[rickyt713]

i hate group projects so much. mostly because im either the guy that does all the work for the whole group or i dont do any work at all. i can never seem to find a midpoint for all of the work. but sometimes theres that one group that you can become friends easily with the other group members or all of the members chip in equally and everything seems to fall in place. ive only experienced that once or twice in my college career so i dont hold my breathe when group projects come up.

 

[DJTiki]

♥♥♥♥ING group projects. Hate them. Not only do I end up doing everything, but I'm also a fallback, and the one to blame. Nothing gets done. If I worked alone, not doing something is my own fault, not because some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ decided to slack off >:(

 

[Vespertinecat]

Despise them, mostly.

Had one is Psychology (university course), though, where in addition to everything, you had to grade you fellow team members. That way, if someone was slacking off, they could be dealt with accordingly. This pleased my group quite a bit, seeing as one fellow vanished almost entirely, and then some other person... no idea.

Group discussions are cool; you can learn a lot that way. Group projects... not so much. I had three nice group projects in college. One for acting. Another for English, but it involved acting. ...Same with the third. The latter two were upper division and honors courses, respectively, so naturally no one was lazy. The first one was a theater class and I had a good partner, and though her availability wasn't great, she put her heart into practicing. The only other good one was a required course for Honors, basically a history of music in America. It was supposed to be groups, but me and my partner only had the two of us. As such, it went pretty well. I notice partnered stuff sometimes went better than larger groups. That's just me, though.

Additionally, compared to high school, college is infinitely better in terms of groups. The level of class is also important. Lower division, general education courses (i.e., the required stuff for everyone) are more likely to have a group member than doesn't care. Upper division courses, your fellow scholars typically want to be there and will work harder. At least, that's what I noticed. I graduated with my B.A. in June of last year. o3o

 

[Candy]

It depends, actually. If everyone is willing to work together, then I would love to have Group Projects.

On the other hand, if everyone else aside from me never made it to the appointed meeting place, gives all the burden to me while they lounge around their laptops, forces me to bring back everything home since they don't give any flying ♥♥♥♥s about it, and even after threatening to leave the group unless they do something about the project (PS. I'm the only one working) they still don't give a single ♥♥♥♥, I would hate it.

 

[dogtree]

Seriously, what college you guy are going to where people in group don't do the work??
i never experienced that

 

[Synerjee]

I actually prefer group projects rather than individual ones. With group projects, you are never completely on your own. There are other people that you can depend on to hold their share of the work - unless you're with a group of social loafers, then I wish you good luck. So far, I've not had much experience of a bad group, so I have no say in that. The only assurance I get is that members can report social loafers to the lecturers and they'll be dealt with accordingly without affecting the rest of the members.

In a good group, you get to meet and to learn to work and socialise with many different types of people, which is a great opportunity not to be wasted. These people might even become great friends or associates in the future. Not only that, you also get to build yourself up as a good team player - a skill extremely useful in the real world that is sought after by many companies.

In the case of individual projects, I don't really like them much as the entire burden of the whole thing lies solely on you. You yourself are responsible for either the project's passing or failing and I find that kinda scary in a sense.

 

[ShiningHelioptile]

I'm not that big of a fan of group projects. If everyone contributed and did their own piece in it, then it would be fine. Sadly, that never happens. There's always at least one person who doesn't do anything and yet they still get credit. Not to mention, the smartest person/people are usually given all the work while everyone else just lounges. Rarely has one been successful for me, though.

 

[Sheep]

Group projects were never my thing. There's almost always a communication problem along the way and I've put in more work than others more times than I can count. Of course when you're actually with competent people then it's the total opposite but generally I don't enjoy having to communicate with a group of three or four people since that can result in complications or sluggish replies.

lemme do it on my own 8D

 

[Imperator161]

Seriously, what college you guy are going to where people in group don't do the work??
i never experienced that

In my case, a school that was very hard for people to get into in the first place, suggesting that most of my classmates worked hard in high school to get in (or else went to very easy high schools and did well on standardized tests, extracurriculars, and the other pieces of the college admission package). Overall, I would say that my classmates had much stronger work ethics on average in college than in high school, but there was still a great deal of variation. One of the issues at a college where everyone was a top high school student is that, obviously, not everyone can be at the top of the class in college. From what I observed, different people responded to the "drop" in their academic performance in different ways. Some people continued to work hard, even if their best efforts no longer earned them straight A's (and sometimes didn't even earn passing grades). Others seemed to decide that focusing so much on academics wasn't worth it; slacking off or focusing on extracurricular pursuits may have seemed like a better use of time. I'm not sure why the "slackers" from my college group projects responded the way they did, but they certainly existed.

I would assume that most colleges have a mixture of slackers and non-slackers, just like most high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools. The number of true slackers probably drops off in the workplace because people get fired for not contributing. In school, though, there tend to be few consequences for not participating fully in group projects, particularly if you don't care about your grade.

I'm curious, dogtree, what has your experience with college group projects been like?

 

[Aeroblast]

It depends on what my group members are like. If they are productive and not a bunch of ****s, I'm fine with it. Fortunately I didn't have many incident where that one ******* just did nothing and took the credits.

 

[dogtree]

When i was in a group project, i rarely speak or share idea because of my English.. i am kinda not articulate so i just wait for a group to assign me a work to do. When peer review come, i get low point. but i understand life is not fair...