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)
penniesguy4323 1
That's pretty gay!!
shannonjnae2706 0
That sucks, but YDI for not doing it yourself to make sure it was done right the first (and last) time.
Trisha_aus 15
Hope your teacher has a sense of humor
skyeyez9 25
Either you get stuck with the village idiot or lazy assholes who contribute nothing to the group project. Group projects prepare you for the real world where a good chunk of your hard earned paycheck is distributed to lazy assholes and frivolous govt pork projects.
Zaxnu 0
Couldn't have said it better myself.
thats_my_job 11
My teachers keep insisting that in the workplace we won't have to deal with lazy people and idiots. I'm pretty sure my teacher hasn't ever worked in retail or with a relative of an owner before. I just shake my head and hope when I get a job I don't work with any of my classmates.
MCTime 12
I'm sure that because they're all obviously in a graduate program, they can't be all that idiotic or that lazy. OP was probably just unlucky enough to get the one overly eccentric weirdo from the class in the project. There's always that one person in class that seems to live in their own reality.
steelx3 4
Sorry, OP, but this one kinda flew over my head...
DarkFoxx 0
thats what you get for letting one person do all the work.
THE_A_TEEN 28
...and you have intricate proof if this? Or it is just your assuming powers at work here?
RoseCrystal 17
Better prepare a sacrifice to appease Zeus or your group is going to fail. Maybe sacrifice the dumbass.
ClosetTroll 10
If you find your group uncooperative and impossible to work with just talk to your professor about accommodating you in a new one. If the problem is genuine, your request will be entertained.
linkinpark98 24
I HATE group projects! -_- Why can't they just let is do our own work? It seems as if everytime I get put in a group, it's either with the 2 people who don't shut up, or the brain dead weirdos.
Sinkhole 26
I think some teachers/professors just assign group work because they don't want to grade a bunch of papers. I know at least one of my professors does that... he said it himself.
thats_my_job 11
Mine too. Also he stated that he hopes those of us who get it can teach those who don't how to do things. Funny enough, I thought I was paying to be taught, not to teach those the teacher has given up on.
mikeymayhem_87 15
Group projects in school suck much!!! I hated them, mainly because me and sometimes somebody else as well, got stuck with all of the work and the teachers didn't care when we complained. I feel for you, OP!