With finals coming up faster than you can chug a beer, everyone's stress levels are through the roof. What could possibly make these last few weeks of school any worse? Oh, right, group projects. For whatever reason, it seems like every professor and teacher out there thinks they should assign an end of semester group project. Why do they love to torture us so? Isn't a final exam enough pain for one semester? No one enjoys group projects, except maybe the one kid who never participates and gets an A for putting their name on it before it was submitted, but they're the only one. The only good part of any group project is the team evaluation at the end where you get the opportunity to tear into all the slackers and make your teacher feel really bad about assigning you to a group full of people who are useless. Besides that, everything about working on a group project sucks, and these are the worst parts...
1. When you first see the group project on the syllabus.
A presentation and a paper? That's just peachy.
2. When the teacher says you'll be getting just one group grade.
Enough with this archaic nonsense! Just grade us each on our individual portion and we'll all be a lot happier.
3. Preassigned groups? Awesome.
Annoying your friends in the class is one thing, but annoying random strangers is just a pain.
4. When someone wants to start the project three months in advance.
I'm sorry, but this project won't even be on my radar until the week before it's due.
5. When no one in the group can commit to a meetup time.
We're all busy, but figure it out! It's just a few hours of your life and then everyone can go back to drinking, or Netflix binging, or whatever it is people do these days when they have free time.
6. When someone suggests meeting at 8:00 a.m. on a Sunday.
Are you a Satanist? Do you want us all to die? Or better yet, do you want us to kill you with our hangovers on Sunday morning?
7. The one person who never contributes anything.
No, it's totally fine, just sit back and relax while we slave over this stupid assignment.
8. When you can't get a hold of someone in the group.
We know you have your phone on you at all times, just give us an answer before we find your address and show up at your house.
9. The person who tries to take over the entire project.
We appreciate your enthusiasm, but please make it stop.
10. When someone only responds to the groups questions at ridiculous hours of the night.
I know sleep is for the weak, but some of us turn our brains off after 10:00 p.m. and don't want to have make changes to our portion eight hours before the assignment is due.
11. When someone bombs the oral presentation.
Granted, public speaking is definitely not most people's forte, but they say practice makes perfect so come on!
12. When you find yourself doing 90 percent of the work.
Who knew you were the only one that actually cared about getting good grades?
13. The person who blows up the group text constantly.
You don't know how to do your bibliography? You lost the link to the google docs? You are a college student and it's time to spread those wings and figure it out by yourself.
