How do you do with group projects?

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Yeah, I'm like you, except for the fact that it isn't the music part that bothers me about concerts. In general, concerts don't bother me much if the music is something I like, and the bands I like don't tend to be loud anyway. Also, that is not what the kids at my school like to do for fun. They go to house parties and get drunk. I don't see the fun in that. Some of the boys also like to go to hockey games, but it's mostly house parties at my school. People tell me that there must some people at school who don't enjoy going out and getting drunk every weekend. However, it doesn't seem like there are many kids at my school that think that way.

It's pretty much like asking Superman to drink Kryptonite and smile about it, and not just any smile, the kind that bares teeth and looks super perky about it. .____.

Hate group projects and group work. I am a friendly person when approached, but there's nothing worse than asking me to get into groups, especially with people I do not know. I don't like the idea of my grade being reliant on someone else, doing a presentation for the class or even being forced to socialize. It's not as bad in college as it was in middle and high school though.

It's worse since in my major, I have to take a lot of literature classes and I HATE reading. Within my major is mostly female (I'm male), and my school is predominantly wealthy/upper middle class. So it's mostly a bunch of stuck-up .... in the class. Even worse is they'll ignore me and the teacher calls ME out on having a lack of group. Not cool. So it's basically being forced to group with a bunch of stuck-up broads that hate you or angry geeks that live in their respective literature worlds and hate your lack of enthusiasm of 'discussion'.

i got mised feelings about group work; on one side, it forces me into social conformity making me hate it, but on the other side, they also force me to do my work on the planned time to prevent the groupmates from being penalized for my behaviour, so it is a great motivation to actually study.

in all, i find the motivation part to weigh heavier then the forced socialisation, so i "kinda-sorta-like-ish" them.
also, once i give a partial disclosure (explaining the relevant problems i might have), most of the people i grouped up wiht up to now were understanding and helped me out with problems i had.