Group projects. By now you've probably realized how awesome they can be, and how awful they can be. If you're anything like me, you barely have time to fit a meal into your schedule, let alone meet up with a group for a project that none of you want to do. These don't always have to be terrible, but they certainly can be when you get stuck with some of these awful people.
The Self-Proclaimed Leader:
They take charge and don't contribute, as if making yourself the "leader" means you don't have to do any actual work.
The Control Freak:
They knock the self-proclaimed leader off their pedestal, add everyone to a group chat, text it constantly even when no one replies, and gets extremely stressed out over everything. They also show up to all meetings early and get frustrated when others aren't as early as they are.
The Critic:
They show up to minimal meetings because you're all below them and not good enough for their time. When they DO show up, they'll sit there snacking and only putting in their input when something isn't good enough or isn't doesn't look how they'd like it to.
The Credit Stealer:
This person will show up to everything, but it's like they aren't even there. They sit in meetings silently and contribute no ideas whatsoever, but when it comes presentation time, they answer all the professor's questions and make themselves sound like the mastermind behind the whole thing.
The Procrastinator:
There's always someone in the group that's completely okay with waiting until the last minute to start and finish everything, and they assume that everyone else is also okay with that. They don't mind pulling an all nighter the night before and not finishing the project until 4 am.
The Ghost:
They're somehow always unavailable when everyone else can meet up, but you have a hunch that they're just bailing because they're lazy. Especially when you see them getting food somewhere when the group meeting is over. They show up the day of the presentation and act as if they've done nothing wrong, and get the same grade as you on the project for doing virtually nothing.
Thankfully, not all group projects are awful and not everyone falls into one of these categories. Sometimes you're blessed with a great group and you begin asking God what you did to get so lucky. But when you're stuck with some of these people, you're usually left alone pulling out your hair and trying not to cry.
