Today, I've now received my 73rd email in two days about my masters group project on policy recommendations for security reform. One group member has helpfully rewritten everything, and our project is now titled "Zeus's Earthly Kingdom." It's due today. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, one of my colleagues was asked to rewrite an entire project, which I wrote last week. I'd spent more than 4 days writing it. FML
Today, I "answered" an email instead of "forwarding" it. As a result, there is a chance that my Master's thesis supervisor gets a message from me starting by the F-word, and complaining about my bad work and inability to understand a deadline. FML
Today, I'm desperately trying to complete a project for a client. However, I have to stop every hour to provide the client with an update of the progress. The deadline is in mid July. FML
Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML
Today, and for the past three months, I've been stuck in a group project with three students who spend 90% of their time talking to each other. This project is mandatory to graduate, and a team effort is practically required in order to do well. I can already feel senioritis kicking in. FML
Today, I finished a huge project for work. It took 3+ days and I was very proud of it. Except when I submitted it to my boss, he said that he'd already asked another person to do it. He used that person's project, not mine. FML
Today, I finished a 6-part project. It took me 7 hours of straight work because my partner decided I should do it alone. I then learned that the reason my partner did not help me was because the teacher e-mailed the leader of every group, saying the project was cancelled. FML
Today, I met up with my group for class. We were doing some final checks on the project we've been working on all semester, when I realized something about one guy's work seemed off. I googled it and found out it's almost completely plagiarized. It's all due in the morning. FML
Today, my boss dropped a highly important and dense report on my desk that had to be finished by the end of the day. After the initial panic attack and hours of scrupulous work, I finished. She then asked me to pick up the revised copy, where my name was replaced with hers. FML
Today, I had a mental breakdown because I have a 10,000 word final project due on Monday and I have only 800 words written so far, because I have been working on other classes and trying to be outside with my friends in the nice weather this week. FML
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dertwev 0
Group projects blow.
flockz 20
no one ***** with zeus, or his kingdom.
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Comments (103)
flamerocker 9
Am I the only one that doesn't understand this one?
KjoeLjan 4
Probably not. Also, someone must have a previous version, right?
xLIGHTS_fml 23
It's okay. I don't either.
xLIGHTS_fml 23
Wait what... OP y u no explain easier???
flamerocker 9
Ok good, I'm not alone
dertwev 0
Group projects blow.
Razzle_Dazzle_5 11
4 Tell me about it! When I was in grade 10 we were working with zinc and hydrochloric acid. We were told only to put in 4 grams of zinc because it's extremely reactive and explosive when the two interact with eachother. My stupid partner dumped the whole damn bottle of zinc in the acid. Everyone had to evacuate the lab and I got an F. Ah good times. -_-
paperroll880 16
21-I'm surprised you still remember the ratio. I have long since forgotten what took place in those dreaded Chem labs in high school
Razzle_Dazzle_5 11
23 Yeah, chem labs were forged by lucifer himself!
vbmg152 19
Yeah! My hubby's 54 years old, he's going to college with a bunch of younger people! Everytime they have a group project, he ends up doing all the work!!!
Razzle_Dazzle_5 11
32 So he's like Pearce from community? That's awesome!
Andr913 13
OP's username FTW. Group projects are horrible.
iheartstewie7 5
I hate group projects..especially when I'm doing most of the work. Like right now, I have one on poetry :(
iHateHippiesToo 6
@32 LOL That was my life at 30 too. I had to carry "super smart" foreign kids in my projects for 4 years. On the plus side - I totally got rid of my notion that Asians are naturally smart.
DK1234567 8
Maybe it's good titles can be deceiving
demo3000 0
No one cares at all dude
kzxvazure 0
slap his face, it will help.
The_Hitdude 12
Not much, considering it was due the same day.
kzxvazure 0
haha, well, might cheer OP up a bit lol
The_Hitdude 12
Yeah....I guess that's a plus. Good call.
BunBunBabe 8
Favorite Comment lol
flockz 20
no one ***** with zeus, or his kingdom.
ddddddddg 9
Something about your picture...
flockz 20
are you giving me shit about my picture?
xleanne_aLly 23
Hahaha, I didn't even notice it was holding shit till I read your comment.
kzxvazure 0
wait...at least he tried :P
kzxvazure 0
lol yes it is
bienlunee 6
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kzxvazure 0
that's what I was thinking too
Blacksxe 1
Murder!!! Kill the group member who changed everything then say you must attend the funeral. Use that time to redo it.
kzxvazure 0
even if OP did that, he still would have other group members who will have to go to school, unless even his whole group will attend the "funeral"
betteryouthanmee 3
Why did you put funeral in quotes.....if he killed him he would be dead so there would be a funeral. That's not the proper use of quotation marks.
VictoriaSchultz 8
I just do the work myself! I don't want to get a bad grade because the other person did a bad job.
petraphotoDOTca 6
seriously. group projects give you 2 options. 1) do it yourself 2) slack off, get a good mark thanks to someone else. I HATE the concept. if professors are so smart, why haven't they gotten rid of that BS?
conniejoy529 10
i think there is a third option there, slack off and get a bad grade because someone else did the work, but did it poorly. But seriously there are all kinds of things that could go wrong with a group project even if you do take it seriously and do your share. For instance, someone gets sick, someone decides to ignore everyone else's wishes and do their own thing, someone contributes nothing. I have my own person group project horror story. It was only a presentation of a book, 4 group members, 3 chapters each. We didn't have a lot of time so It seemed easier to not have everyone try to read the whole book, so we agreed to just read our own chapters and take turns presenting them in order. But two of the group members somehow did the same 3 chapters, which left 25% of the book uncovered. Luckily it was a large class so the professor did not attempt to read the book we presented, so we were able to fake our way through it. But it was really scary for a while there (it was my senior year of college and I needed that course to graduate, so I was pretty stressed).
PaulB123 11
Hopefully the gods can help you!!
LunaDragon 10
Perhaps Op should should ask Athena for some guidance.
WCARlover 35
Group projects make me hate school, and people, actually
kzxvazure 0
OH MY GOD I know right! My group project members always make things messy or something, or leave all the work to me...
Ameel_fml 19
Me too. I thought there would be no more group projects once I reached university, but nope. I failed two of my classes in my first year due to lazy group members and people claiming they had done their work when they really hadn't. It sucks when people's future careers are being decided on stupid things like group projects. :(
dmblonde 13
Same here. I'm always the one who does all the work because I don't want to fail. I hate people haha.
DK1234567 8
In my opinion I don't understand how a group project shows your understanding of a certain subject and application also how come when I want to work with a partner I can't but when I don't they crowd me with 3 extra people who don't contribute