We all know the struggles of group projects. For the slackers of the world, these two words are a grace from God, a GPA booster, a free pass, if you will. But for the overachievers of the world, this is a curse only one of the Devil's advocates could have come up with. Other people benefitting from your work? College is hard enough, jobs are already sparse, let's not put ourselves on an even playing field. More often than not, here is how group projects go for me.

You walk into class, get the syllabus, and your stomach drops. You keep seeing the phrase "group project."

Even worse, your group is assigned.

But this is college. Things are different. Not just one person is going to do all the work.

So you get started, and realize there is a lot more stuff to do than you originally thought.

No one can meet at the same time, and whenever you do it ends up like this.

And there is that one person you just want to shout at. 

Someone will ruin or crush your soul about something you spent hours on.

Someone will end up doing all the work -- or most of it -- unless you have a really awesome group.

Or, suddenly, you realize something.

It is the night before deadline. 

You all get together and pray.

You start scrambling to do the 50,000 things you forgot to do already.

Somehow, you manage to finish it.

Now, you just have to wait to get your grade.

And you may find out group projects aren't all bad if you have the right people.