At one point or another, we've all been a part of a terrible group project. You know the kind. They make you wonder if anyone in your school has a brain, knows how to operate PowerPoint, and has any sense of common courtesy whatsoever. If you have been victimized by the inescapable group project, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

Your teacher announces that there will be a group project and you immediately feel your soul being crushed.

You desperately look around the room for someone you know so you don't have to do this awful thing alone, but you realize you know no one and you're screwed.

Going into it you already know how it's going to go down and you feel the need to drink.

One person always does a majority of the work and everyone else just puts their name on it.

The deadline is weeks away so you write it on your calendar and pretend it doesn't exist.

There's always that one person who can't meet up to work on the project.

And there's always that one person who doesn't show up until the day of the presentation.

When you do finally meet up to work together, the whole experience is just you waiting until it's over.

You read the work other people did on the PowerPoint and you cry at the stupidity.

Finally, the day your nightmare is finally over arrives and your project is due.

You watch in confused amazement as the other groups go and they somehow seem like they've all got it together.

You eagerly await peer evaluations because you can't wait to give your other group members a big fat zero.

You get up there and do your best to carry the team on your back.

Then, just like that, it's all over and you can return to your life, semi-unscathed and praying you never have to do another group project.