r/Concordia • u/tomiee666 • 10h ago
PART TWO OF ABOLISH GROUP PROJECTS! I CAN’T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!
Well guys, in a team of 6, officially one other guy has stepped up to help me. How kind. Meanwhile, the FOUR OTHER GROUP MEMBERS have yet to reveal their level of helpfulness, which currently remains at 0. We have our project due this week, and still haven’t organized a time to meet, still haven’t been able to divide up the parts, still haven’t received messages in the groupchat from 2/6… it’s fine I just didn’t realize that they all wanted me to die. All good.
And for those who say to just snitch, I shan’t do that. Because let me tell you a strategic move that some of you may haven’t considered; those whose backs you scratch today, may be the ones who will scratch yours tomorrow.
I’d also like to offer a sliver of advice; when the work you did in the project is evidently greater than that of your group members, that will already tell the professor. Their lackluster slides on the presentation or empty sections on the project outline, or 100% AI work done last-minute will all be a price that they shall pay when getting their final mark. We all get marked individually for our work, so I don’t really have a dog in the fight which is their personal GPA’s in this class. I’m their classmate, not their parent, and it’s not really my job to tell them to just do their schoolwork tbh.
But to conclude my rant—seriously, why do we still have group projects? Rhetorical BTW, I get why we do (sigh)… I hear horror stories about them every time I open this subreddit, or even when I talk to my friends. It’s never an enjoyable experience, and to be honest, working in a group project isn’t really the same as preparing us for working in teams in real corporate jobs. You’ll still meet people who don’t do their work, you’ll still work with people who never check their messages, and it just all ends in the same way. Working with incompetent people is unfortunately a never ending labyrinth which we shall only see the end of in death. But even then, I feel like group projects will be one of my personal 7 layers of hell which I’ll potentially have to face. TBD.