I’m that person who would rather do a whole project alone than get matched up with strangers, 100%.

Now if I get to pick my group, I’m a little more okay with it. Still, I don't love the idea of group work, I'll be honest. Sometimes people just don't work well together, which is fine.

In one of my senior capstone classes, we got to pick our groups and I love mine. But in my online class where we got put into groups, it's a completely different experience. There is one person in the group who does their stuff when I ask, and they happened to be in my other group, so they aren't the problem. A couple of the other members tend to work their way in the day it's due.

I’m usually a delegator. I’m the person who will send out the first email or group text. I’ll say “Okay, you do this, you do that and I’ll do this.” I have no problem helping you out when you have a question or sending you pictures of the chapter when you don't have the book. Doesn’t seem too bad, right?

Wrong. I’ve had people question me on due dates, ignore my text messages, and tell me they “contributed to the Google Doc” but it’s not there? Or they tell me they sent an email, but I never got it. Nothing is worse than a lame excuse. Honestly, it's 2017! Your contribution doesn't show up and your email doesn't get delivered. I’ve heard on the day it’s due, “I have class all day until 8. I don't know when I’ll have time.”

JOIN THE CLUB. So do I.

I think you've had plenty of time since I reminded everyone, a week before it was due. But hey, maybe it’s me. Honestly, probably not. I give everyone a fair shot for the first assignment. Sure, it’s new and we’re not used to it yet. We’re just getting out of the summer funk.

But by the third assignment, if you can’t do it in a timely manner, what are you doing? If I was the slacker, I would expect my name to be left off the assignment and the professor told me that I didn't participate.

I don’t ask for much, but you truly had one job. Do your part. Contribute to the Google Doc by Sunday night. Hey, I’ll even let you have until Monday morning. I have a break from 2-5 P.M., which is usually when I put everything together. But when I say before 5 P.M., I mean 5 P.M.

To all you people reading this thinking "Wow, that's me", change that. To all the people out there who do your part, thank you. You are the real MVPs.