Working together is one of the best things ever because, obviously, less work!! Great, right? Not at all. Working together is great, but in order for it to be great, there needs to be a group of people who are all able to commit and actually add things to the project, or quiz. This hasn’t happened once at all for me; not yet, at least. Tomorrow I have a quiz for one of my classes and it is a group quiz, and I’m honestly nervous for who I’m paired with.
I had one project to do with three other people, and I did all of the work; I typed five pages by myself. Two of the four other people came to work on it the night before with me while I was finalizing things. I have never been so angry in my life. All I wanted to do is copy everything I wrote down, delete the document that I shared with my partners, and finish working on it by myself. It makes sense because if I managed to do nearly all of it by myself, what’s the point of having my group mates doing any more? That didn’t happen, but I had one of the “slackers” print copies for me.
There are some things I realize I should have learned from this experience: be patient. Patience, to me, is key in being able to work best with other people. Something else I learned is: be cooperative. Obviously, from what I experienced, there cannot be only one person doing the whole thing in this. What good would it do you if you do nothing in a group work? Nothing! You don’t even get a chance to know if you’ve mastered the material you worked on, which would suck if you didn’t know it in the end. One other thing I learned is to not have too much trust on the people you’re working with; this is regardless of them being your friend. Sure, it may be “la dee da” but what if they don’t show the same commitment as you do in an assigned work?
One last question: Aren’t group projects just wonderful?
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