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story645

school rant

Feb 27, 2007 12:22

Note to self: Don't rely on your partner to do the coding assignment if he's not a fabulous coder and you already know this. Doesn't matter that you were the one to code and hand in the first assignment (for a perfect score) cause you two didn't communicate, so it's only fair that he gets to do this one. Now the assignment is due in a few hours and ( Read more... )

rant, rec, school

Comments 21

ani_bester February 27 2007, 18:26:52 UTC

So, group work horror stories?Ohhh man, just the typical A-holes who won't do their work. The most annoying thast I can recall was we had a presentation that coiuld be no longer than 30 minutes, so each of us had 5 minutes to present. I went last ( ... )

story645 February 27 2007, 23:56:37 UTC

*headdesk* I've been the unprepared one, but then I always make sure to go last, and still be sort of prepared. I'm surprised at the teacher, since (being a speech) she should have easily been able to tell that you had prepped and your group was a bunch of slackers.

Uch, your friends group had some nerve. It's really not her fault if they're bums. At least the teach kept track.

I know that the real world is as bad, if not worse. My mom's a programmer, so she's got lots of "incompetent group member" stories.

story645 February 28 2007, 00:06:53 UTC

Oh and I just remembered my team project for my substance abuse treatment class. My partner and I were presenting on pot. It was awful. She'd read like one article on the history of pot and that was it. Meanwhile, I'd combed through everything the gov't had, a bunch of other sources, and read a scientific paper on the chemistry of pot and what it does in and to your body. So she had a minute worth of things to say, maybe, and got some of those things wrong. During the Q&A when the class stoner asked where he could score some pot she actually started answering him. *headdesk*

kerosinkanister February 27 2007, 19:33:52 UTC

Ah group work. It's been a while since I've had to do that ( ... )

story645 February 28 2007, 00:02:58 UTC

I joke that I'm a bad lap partner, cause I tend to avoid doing all the calculations and a lot of the nitpicky measurement stuff. But I'm good with the theory and answering questions and helping out with the experiment. In chem I never did the parts of the experiment that required adding one chemical to another, but that's cause in high school I was the kid who'd turn it green if it was supposed to turn pink.

Even at the uni level, most upper level engineering courses (and some lower level ones) have a group project or two. Lots of practice with it, and I've had experiences where there's individual evaluation and when there isn't.

kerosinkanister February 28 2007, 01:01:33 UTC

I think we had some group work with peer evaluation but I think people typically aren't honest there, maybe being nice in hopes of not getting a bad evaluation in return.

story645 February 28 2007, 02:05:07 UTC

Ours was more of the "label what you did" variety. I also think that a lot of people don't want to tell the prof that someone's being irresponsible cause a lot of people have that one time they weren't so responsible.

emelye916 February 27 2007, 19:58:05 UTC

Group work is the bane of my existence! No particular bad stories, but just a general - UGH. I always end up doing the bulk of the work, and then also feel bad about myself for "taking it too seriously" and then for letting people walk all over me.

story645 February 28 2007, 00:07:57 UTC

Oy, poor girl. That's also what I hate about group work, sticking someone else with all of it. But I really don't want to do all of it either and have no incentive to.

spookykat February 27 2007, 21:14:13 UTC

It's not just engeneering majors who have to put up with group work. It's EVERYONE ( ... )

story645 February 28 2007, 00:12:38 UTC

I do know that. I had group projects in both of my summer psych classes. It's just one of those things all engineering students rant about.

As for the project? Eek, many *hugs* for having to put up with that. I can sympathize with the profs desire to not read papers, but a big intensive group project for a night class shows a complete misunderstanding of the demographics of the average night class.

austenrowling February 27 2007, 21:15:53 UTC

Sorry you had to redo your partners work. I hope you didn't miss too much in the class you had to skip. Hopefully your next partner will be more competent.

story645 February 27 2007, 23:39:40 UTC

Nah, probably didn't miss anything. The professor barely knows what's flying and he just goes off on random tangents. I sleep most of the time. actually turned out a bit well cause I stayed in the writing center to finish my assignment and managed to pick up an extra hour of paid work for a 20 minute period of tutoring.