How do you do with group projects?

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Just wondering.

That really depends on what I know about the subject and how much freedom is available. There was a time I was allowed to work on my own while my would-be partner was in a group of three. There was time or two when I basically just gave my partners the answers. And sometimes I can't be bothered to do much work, and just hang around if needed. Basically, I will deal with a problem if one arises.

Group projects always get under my skin. Depending on whether or not our instructions were thorough, I'll either be the person pulling everyone else's weight, or I'll be the clueless one scratching my head in the corner.

I do not like them because I abhor having to depend on the capacity of others to do their sections of the work well but since I am going to a university on-line the "learning teams" are a bit easier to handle than in person.

I was very bad with it in undergrad because I didn't know the people I worked with, more than once I just did my portion and didn't contact anyone and showed up to the presentation ready to rock, but had already gotten my grade reduced because people complained to professors that I wouldn't do s**t.

Grad school has been much better, I know everyone and someone always comes thru with beer and we just kick it without stress and have a couple brews and bang it out.

My best memory is sitting in a bar at a lunch break during a 6 hour class prior to a final presentation, feeling like death due to drinking a 12 pack of Stags and puffing blunts at a concert the previous night, guzzling beer and rehearsing the presentation in the presence of the 1pm barflies.

I'm A+ for life

In the Danish system there is so much to it. The short answer is, I like group work when it works.
Generally I cannot trust my fellow students doing a job I can be satisfied with, and they cannot trust me respecting preliminary deadlines, so more often than not I end up doing the group work more or less my self. Sometimes that means that I do the work of 3-5 people. You can always choose to do an assignment or project on your own, and I will do so for my last project, my thesis, but the workload may be the same as for 2 or 3 persons. At the same time, and right now I do not know how, but I guess it is because I've just been taking over the projects afterwards I have actually been working with students of some 40 different nationalities during my studies. Unfortunately when I find someone who is good to work with, it comes down to interests in the next subject where I seem to be quite stubborn on my interests and topics. Either that, or, because I work with international students they are gone by the next semester.

I will graduate in 8 months, and I am really excited to see how it will work out with team work professionally. The volunteering I do is also group based, and that works out just fine.

honestly, I only liked group work when it was with a close friend that I knew and was comfortable with. Other than that, I would vote going solo. I know what I know and if I don't know something, I'm going to go find it on my own. I WILL NOT ever ask for help from another student or a teacher even. If I get something wrong, I can see it, and I know why it happened. I do not trust other students for their intelligence because, *sigh* here's my ego, I know what I'm talking about and I know it better than them. Most of the time. I know how I want to do it, and I'm going to do it that way. Groups, I do what I'm told, I do what I'm assigned, and only rarely correct others, when the others get something wrong, I usually just duck my head down, do my own work, with the right answers, turn that in.

I don't really prefer group work, but I'm having a good experience with it right now. My programming class that assigns a lot of group work and we have the same group the whole semester. I'm in a group with two girls and they are very friendly and smart and we meet up to write the programs and we each contribute almost equally. These assignments usually take several hours, but I'm sure they would take even longer on my own. I really hope group work in future classes goes this well.

It is ok if I can take my bit away to work on it independently. But I suppose that that is not the point of group work

The worst for me is having to do a group presentation. As if doing any presentation wasn't hard enough, having the extra pressure of letting down the team throws me into sheer panic. I spoke to disability services at uni just yesterday about getting accommodations for this kind of assessment. She said that there are plenty of people with autism currently at the university that have course adjustments regarding both group work and presentations.

I either take charge and end up doing everything on my own... or am left in the dust with everyone hating me because I don't want to do anything to contribute to something I really couldn't care about.

I like to know exactly what the group expects me to do towards the project. I feel uncomfortable if I walk out without clear expectations, because then I'll either do nothing (feeling guilty) or do something someone else is doing already (wasting my time.) I will not do an entire group's work unless it's something I'm EXTREMELY good at. I may, however, look at what the other members of the group did to see if there are any big holes in it that could drag down the whole group's grade. If I were ever to be put in a group of extreme slackers or those who are horrible at it, I would talk to the professor and ask to be put in a different group.

I usually do all the research and writing, and then stand around during the presentation if there is one. I prefer not to do them, but they aren't horrible if I've known a couple days in advance.

In general I don't like it. When you get a group of four or six random people or whatever, inevitably some of the people in that group will try to do as little work as possible, and/or will just be really obnoxious people with whom it is very hard to work.

Now, if I get to choose who I am working with (and not "choose" out of a class of 30 random strangers, which is a "blind" choice) that is another story. In an outside-of-class context I do work in groups and it works well. But those are people who a. I get along with and b. are capable, motivated, etc.

Do not want.

I'm fine with getting assigned a group but not with having to pick my own. Sometimes i end up doing all of the work, sometimes i end up doing part of the work and sometimes i end up doing absolutely nothing. It depends on the group and my mood at the time.

I will admit I'm not ecstatic about group work especially if I risk getting teamed up with sh***y partners, but that's what the real world is all about; working with others even if they are equivalent to those sh***y partners from school (or worse).