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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ghostlilac 25
7 - "Masters" refers to a university degree (between Bachelors and Doctorate), not an actual person :P
slimjim8094 12
That would really suck if you didn't have backups! You should have backups anyway, but if you've been emailing, the old ones are there in the old emails and the sent folder. No harm done.
xXRiah_GirlXx 9
That is why people hate group work and people in general! There's always that one asshole that's always trying to be funny and has no regard for anyone else's grade. Hope you were able to salvage the situation.
pappuyarr 1
Wtf ?
LAMKWHIM 11
I hate group projects too! I had one last year for uni and I was supposed to put the powerpoint together but one of the girls wouldn't reply to any of my emails asking for her part. Then she didn't turn up on the day of the presentation so we had to do it the next week which means we missed out on bonus marks, even though everyone else had finished the entire presentation about a week before!
jlej 6
learn to spell correctly, idiot. it is not "Zeus's". It is Zeus'. you don't need an s after the apostrophe if there is an s at the end of the name like that. I mean seriously. That's like 5th grade English.
jenkins56 5
Actually, either is grammatically correct. Also, since OP was quoting what another person wrote as the title I really don't think there was any need for the 'idiot', idiot.
MissMisc3 7
#93 beat me to it. Either form is acceptible, and before you go calling someone an 'idiot' it might be worthwhile to brush up on your knowledge of capitalization. Oh, and a comma before "seriously" might be in order, so long as we're instructing one another.
demo3000 0
Yes you are wrong
Bebbo_fml 21
Group projects are something everyone needs to be familiar with because once you start working, you'll be working within groups or dealing with people. Being able to handle all types of group members will show your resiliency.
greeneye_fml 12
School group projects and projects at work are two completely different things. At work you're all in one place and have the time to collaborate. In school, profs RARELY if ever give you time to do stuff in class when you're there, instead you have to balance work and class schedules and family to find a time to work outside of class, mostly argue over email and have ten minute get togethers while you hash last minute stuff together. Its a freaking joke.
Nano33 2
You should have used a GoogleDoc or a wiki page. So much easier then emailing 73 times.
wildgal8441 4
I freaking hate group projects. We had to do an essay in my L.A. class, and she put us in groups of four. One girl in our group, the 'popular' girl, had claimed her phone fell in the toilet, and thats why she didnt text us. We were supposed to email the essay back and forth. And text each other. I was sick the day before, and so the day we were supposed to take it home and type it, my group chose me to type it, saying I wasnt there helping, so I should. I told them I would be super busy, and not have time to type it, yet they made me do it anyways and told me to copy exactly what was on the page. A page was missing that had how the typing was supposed to be set up. Long story short, I got yelled at by our teacher for choosing to type the essay, and we got a D on our final exam. FML