If you’ve taken a lab at your university and been assigned a random lab partner, you know the struggle. Either you strike a pot of gold or you suffer for seemingly endless hours in the lab. Lab partners come in many different forms, and can either make or break your grade, your GPA, your overall career success, and your life. A little extreme, but if you know, you know. Here are the types of lab partners you might see, maybe you're one of them.

1. Too Tired To Function

This is the kind of lab partner who expects you to do everything. They say things like, “Sorry man I got like no sleep last night Alpha Apple Pie had this function, I might be like really out of it.” They then proceed to agree with everything you say and offer no input because they apparently are “too tired to function”.

2. Confused By Everything

These are the kinds of lab partners that say, “Are you sure?” and “Maybe we should do this part again”. They question every answer and result you get. Like no, we already did that part, let’s move on.

3. Basically Einstein

This lab partner makes you cry tears of joy because you might get a perfect score on your lab. This person studied the lab for 57.35 hours beforehand and knows EXACTLY what to do. They may cause you to want to name your firstborn after them. Why don't they just do every lab for you for the rest of your life?

4. Unprepared

This is the kind of lab partner that walks in 10 minutes late AND forgot their lab. They’re relying on you to carry them through the lab because they didn’t read it and have no idea what’s going on. Do they even know what class this lab is for? I'm not sure.

Regardless of your lab partner, I hope you still find a way to get that A. When you get a lab partner that doesn’t pull their own, just think of it as patience training. At least your tuition covers more than just a degree.