Is there seriously anything worse than group work in university?
Post storiesI strongly dislike normies
>multimedia class
>get partnered up with a girl
>we have to spend all semester working on a project that could be used in a real life situation
>she runs a youtube channel
>she suggested we do something using her online persona
>we decided against it cause I don't want normies thinking she's weird and it could easily backfire in so many ways
>we ended up working on a lesson plan a teacher can use for gradeschool
>made an activity book full of class assignments and fun crosswords related to 'being green' (reuse, reduce, recycle, etc)
>girl drew me and her on the cover of the activity book planting a tree
>>24558382
That actually sounds really nice.
>>24558382
>"multimedia class"
>university
>implying
>>24558382
>multimedia class
you're a fucking meme
>tfw haven't been to class in 2 months
It depends on what kind of people are in the group. Worst case:
>grouped with 2 morons
>they have no fucking clue, can't make any contribution whatsoever, seriously wouldn't be able to pass the course
>have to do everything by myself
>all of us get the same grade
>group told me to have all my shit done over thanksgiving break
fuck off faggots, they'll probably cry to the professor when I don't do it also even though I told them I didn't want to work over break
>>24558065
why does everyone call it university here?
they call it college where i come from.
>>24558065
Not really a good story, but I agree, group work in general is just shit.
>physics lab
>1 other dude, 2 other girls
>am an introvert, but find myself having to speak up to spur group work along
>not even necessarily carrying the work load, just have to speak up to get shit moving
>decide one day i'm not going to say anything and let the other kids initiate the work
>sit in silence for 10 full, literal seconds
>go back to me guiding the group through the work
>>24558382
I hope this is high school, because if college you really are a meme
Comp Sci/Business major.
My life is half isolation, half (forced) interaction.
>be in Marketing class
>surrounded by normies, chads, and the occasional stacies
>have to make up stories about parties to share during projects
>next class is linear algebra
>have not said a word to anyone all semester.
>>24560054
Many Europeans call it uni.
>tfw math major
>tfw no group assignments at all
>tfw people ask me if I want to study with them and I say 'no'
>>24560372
>sit in silence for 10 full, literal seconds
>go back to me guiding the group through the work
It's not even limited to studying alone. Everything you do, be it video games or whateverthefuck people do together in real life, most of the time no one is going to say a damn thing. I feel bad when no one is doing the leading part and since I am capable of doing it, I always feel stressed out as fuck over the prospect of having to work in a group and feel bad if I don't step up. Only thing worse than no one stepping up is when you, or someone else, try to lead and some smartass faggot disagrees loudly with everything you/they say and offers no solution of his own.
Most of the time I am completely happy being alone.
What's the point of group work? I don't think I'll end up going to uni, but in high school I just skipped a class for a while until the group work was over.
>>24558065
had a recent experience with this
philosophy class
i'm majoring in engineering tho
>group assignment
>we postpone the work for a few days
in my case i was overloaded with other classes and work
>finally decide to start working on the project
>me e a couple other guys on the group take the initiative
>we try to get everyone together to start working on it
>people are just laying back and saying: "yeh just tell me what i have to do"
>"tell every to start getting acquanted with the subject
>other than the two guys no one does
>end up writing the essay, doing the whole presentation
had to spend a week reading the books, watching documentaries, while, with two exceptions, no one bothered even learning what the subject really was about
>highschool
>biology presentation on dolphin evolution
>me and another guy do all the research and develop the presentation
>realize the third guy isn't going to play ball, so we just give him the task of finding a related video
>get to the video part of the presentation
>the dolphin is related to...
>has evolved dramatically over x and y etc, suddenly the video shifts violently in tone
>.....OF COURSE WE KNOW THIS AS UNTRUE AS GOD IS THE ENTITY SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION AND PROLIFERATION OF ALL MARINE LIFE
>looks of horror and consternation
>C+
I accept it.
>>24558065
Once I was doing Computer Science and had a work to do with the worse group ever assembled in the history of mankind. I did my work and when I tried to bring it to others, they discarded it and printed some shit they found in the Internet. The professor gave us F. Fucking normies...
>>24560054
LEAVE IMPERIALIST AMERICAN
>>24561330
>...business robot...
Did you parents put you up to that?
>>24558065
>"h-hey you guys got room for another member?"
every class
every semester
every year
I can feel my soul trying to leave my body.
>>24558065
Here's a story about me being the offending part in one of these scenarios. It's quite short.
>be in Chemistry class
>assigned lab partners at the first lab
>guy is pretty lame, might even post here
>would much have preferred a girl as my partner
>straight up bored of this stupid lab
>switch lab slots without so much as warning him
>get girl partner in my new lab
He didn't have any means to contact me, because I gave him the wrong phone number.
>>24560372
I had a group leader do exactly what you did with the same results. I did feel terrible for being such a beta fuck but you can't reverse 20 years of apathy in 10 seconds.
Nothin personnel.
>taking some intro to networking course
>final project is to put together a recommendation report for an office network
>group project: me and two others
>black guy who seems like he has his shit together and actually willingly volunteers to do certain portions of the project
>foreign exchange girl from asia who can barely string together a sentence
>two weeks before the project is due and nothing has been done
>tell them to show up with their research and shit done one week before it's due so we can put everything together
>guy literally has one sentence written on firewalls
>girl has a word-for-word copy-pasted page on mail server protocols
>try to explain to them what we need when the guy's friend barges into the meeting with fried chicken
>they end up sharing it and talking obnoxiously loud for 20 minutes about some stacey that they wanted to fuck at a party
>I ended up making a point-by-point sheet of what they need to cover in their sections and I left
>go home and write 25 pages on my own
>show up 2 days later (day before the project is due) to put everything together and finalize the project
>they showed up with 2 pages each which didn't include half the shit I told them to and they guy was still asking questions on what he was supposed to write for his section
>take it home and write everything else for them
>submit and present project (of course I was talking for 25 of the required 30 minutes) and we all get an A
This is why there are so many retards with degrees.
There's so much group work in schools now that shitters can just freeride their way to easy grades and an easy degree.
Doesn't really matter because once they join the workforce, they just do the same thing there and end up being promoted to manager.
Depresses me so much that I just want to kill myself to be honest.
