Group Projects Seriously Suck.
I hate Group Projects. First theres always the odd one out thing that always makes someone feel just plain awful and unloved. And then theres the fact that the rest of the group doesn't listen to my ideas when mine are clearly the best, I don't mean to sound vain because I really am not at all, but my ideas are usually quite good ones, one of the few things I really pride myself with. Like earlier this year, we had this project and I thought up this awesome and creative skit and they dismissed it in like three seconds on account of it being a bit odd, they said they didn't understand it, and went for a powerpoint. We didn't get a very good grade on ours and I can't help but think if we'd gone through with my skit we would have done much better, especially seeing that the group that got the best grade in the class did a skit and it wasn't even half as creative as mine. When I'm on my own I always listen to my ideas and usually end up with a very good grade. I also hate that your grade depends on other people as well, I want to be graded for what I do and not for what other people do, if I flunk I want it to be for something I did wrong, not because I did really well on everything but someone else messed up royally, and vice versa I don't like being responsible for other peoples grades either especially seeing that usually I end up making their project so much better because I tend to care more about it then other people, and call my selfish, but I don't like people taking credit for stuff that I do, especially people I'm in competition with. We had this newspaper project we had to do, and I was assigned with these two girls, I was the editor, Morgan was the reporter, and Hanna was the illustrator. This project went awfully. First Morgan and Hanna didn't have their part of the draft done in time, so we were docked for that, and then over the weekend she sent me the paper, and her articles really weren't all that good, I was tempted to rewrite them entirely from scratch but I didn't want to be mean, so I didn't, I just edited her many grammatical mistakes and such and added some stuff to the final article, and a header, then I put it in newspaper format. So the paper looked okay, and we had both told Hanna to have the illustrations done by Monday, so if there was anything wrong with them we could fix it, and so I could put them in the paper for when the newspaper was due and Morgan was going to bring newspaperish paper to print it on. On Monday, Hanna didn't have the illustrations done, she had these tiny sketches on lined paper that took her like 30 seconds and were in no way good enough to go in the paper on Tuesday when it was due, and she's like "Those are for the draft" it made me so angry, but being the nice quiet shy person that I am, I didn't say anything, I just told her to be sure to have the illustrations done on Tuesday and that night I would leave space for them on the paper and then cut them out and paste them in the morning. So then I get there in the morning, and Hanna forgot to do them! It was the easiest job, all she had to do was trace some maps out of a book and draw Chamberlain. I did my part and beyond and she can't even do hers, it made me so mad, but of course once again I didn't say anything. So now our paper isn't going to get a good grade even though I did my very best and, I'm probably just going to harbor a secret resentment for her for a good long while now. I wish we only did individual assignments.