How do you do with group projects?

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I hate group projects because no one is ever organized.

Do you know who ends up doing all the work in group projects me?

Then guess what? They are all chopped down.

Let me see a great example:

-Group project announced half a month before it's due date

-Got into a group and told them we should brainstorm now so we wouldn't be scrambling

-I start sending out ideas immediatedy, no one responds

-I end up creating everything, send the group everything I have done

-Then 2 weeks before deadline, people want to destroy everything that was created before them

-We had only 2 weeks and they wanted to do a play. Well if you wanted a successful play maybe you should have done it during the time the actual god damn f-ing assignment was announced

-When we had to present out information, we were unprepared, sloppy, angry


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I hate group projects because they always end up the same. I'm the only one prepared enough to do some real work.

when i was at school the teachers soon gave up trying to get me to participate :p

During High school when I was doing a group project I usually was paired with people who couldn't give a dam about the mark they got so I was usually the one stuck doing most of the project. But when I was paired up with a real team of hard workers I could do little and kind of felt left out do to my lack of social skills. Now that I am in college I know that I do not work very well in groups because of my anti-social skills

It usually depends, but I mainly don't like working in groups. I always end up doing most of the work and trying to tearing my hair out, or even getting into a meltdown. Other people aren't always reliable, and they don't always seem to get the subject as quickly.

I guess it can be my fault sometimes, I always end up volenteering to do more work so I won't seem like a bother; and sometimes, if I'm paired up with people I don't really talk to or find it hard talking to them, I immediately start working on the project in silence as they wait around for orders. I also can't give instructions clearly. I always seem to stumble over my words, stutter, blank out, and my voice is really quiet too...

When I had to do a presentation on my science project along with my partners, we had points docked off because they other two couldn't remember what "geotropism" was.

It depends on the class. In my First Nations (Native American) class last semester, I was OK with working in groups, as long as I was put with people who actually DID WORK. I don't mind in Science because I really like the people who sit beside me. However, I really don't like it in family studies because I hardly know anyone in that class (and the ones I do know, aren't really people I would enjoy working with) and everyone seems to know everyone in that class. A couple people are nice, but it just makes me uncomfortable.

I also hate it when the other members of the group "leave you out", and don't ask for your input at all. This often happens when everyone in your group are friends but you don't really know them. I found this more of problem in elementary and middle school than I do in high school for some reason.

In middle school, we used to have "teams" and there were 4 classes on each team. Sometimes, the 4 classes would get together to do activities, that was the worst because I would get put with people from other classes who I didn't even know the names of. At the beginning of middle school I got put with a girl that bullied me in the cafeteria. I told the adults and they said I didn't have to the assignment at all because it was just for fun. They would often allow me to work on my own in middle school.

I don't like getting to pick my own group because no one ever wants to work with me. They want to work with their friends. Even if they are my friends, they want to work with "better" friends.

I usually don't like it, especially when I don't get to work with my friends. Even when I do get to work with my friends, I usually prefer to work on my own. The only time I like group projects is if we have to present it in front of the class, it's easier then going up alone.

I don’t mind if the teacher assigns the groups but when the students get to choose groups that’s when i get uncomfortable cause they choose their friends or people they like and i don’t really talk much so I'm usually end up waiting till some group is missing a person. :L

Yeah me too. I usually just wait instead of asking people if I can be in their group, because when I do that, they say "Oh, we want to have a group of only 3", "we already have enough people", "so and so is going to join us" or in the case of partner work, "I want to work with so and so". There are 2 girls in Earth Science class that work with me just fine though. There was someone who would work with in First Nations (Native American), but I haven't really had much success.

Math class last semester had no group work at all. The only classes had no group work throughout high school were ICT (9 and 11) and Music, which actually did have group work but it optional.

I have to do a group assignment at the minute and I dread walking into the classroom. There is only one other person in the group other than myself that actually does any work and even she spent an hour of last lesson doing online shopping. I found that even when she did work though, her ideas were different to mine which annoyed me because we couldn't agree. As for the others, they were all having conversations among themselves and I freaked out because there were about 5 conversations going on at once and I couldn't focus on anything at all, let alone the assignment. It's not as if I can just do the work by myself either because I tried that and my teacher found out, and she wouldn't let me hand it in because it wasn't a group effort, and wouldn't let the others take part (it was a script and I was thinking they could just read the script and that would constitute a group effort) because it wasn't technically their work. I'm dreading going to university where I'll have to do this kind of thing all the time.

Group work is traumatic.

Oh... I don't like it. Even hate. I used to semi-like my native language lessons until now, when we need to work in groups EVERY single lesson.. And about group projects, I am often the one, others do not want to be in group with. It hurts, when everybody are argueing to not have me in their group. Even if I do nothing.

I don't like group projects. What really makes me mad about group projects is that I often get pushed out of the work and then the same people who pushed me out rage at me for not doing enough work. Communicating with other students is not something I like either.

I hate them and I have accommodation to do individual alternatives to group projects.

I can handle group projects, but they're a big hassle, especially when they involve working outside of school *shudders*. I've also had that problem of no one wanting me in their group, but it usually works out alright.

I hate group projects. I want to work alone.

Asking if I can join some group often feels awkward, and I don't really have friends in my class. I can get groups and they allow me without muttering, but I'm not so keen on it. I prefer to work alone anyway.

I don't think I *can* be friends with them. Our worlds differ too much, and I don't go out like them. I can only go to a few metal or classical concerts because music that I find not too great annoys me, and very loud music stresses me out. And I don't think it's much fun anyway. Don't really know where to get friends though.