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"CounterTorqueSteer" (countertorquesteer)
12/04/2014 at 09:24 • Filed to: School

I hope you don't have to deal with the kind of crap that I have had to in order to finish the semester. This student has missed over 15 class sessions and when she was in my group for the last project, didn't do a single bit of work. Have a great day everyone.

DISCUSSION (10)

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > CounterTorqueSteer
12/04/2014 at 09:27

I was in a group full of people like this. Thank god I'm not there any more.

ACESandEIGHTS > CounterTorqueSteer
12/04/2014 at 09:31

Can't stand them. But then I loathe group work. If anything, group work should be reserved for advanced classes rather than the the 1 and 2 level classes where you'll usually encounter it.

My worst experience: the professor publicly came out against a woman in our group, proclaimed her absentee and a n'er-do-well and a scoundrel, scalawag and charlatan, and started this by giving her an incomplete or a 20% etc. on a huge group effort. Then came the protests via email (group email to us and the professor) and the fact-finding emails sent by the professor (what did she contribute? how often was she there?) I responded to 0.0% of both sides' inquiries. F'ing dreadful, like secret police dreadful.

CounterTorqueSteer > ACESandEIGHTS
12/04/2014 at 09:35

Sounds extremely and unfortunately familiar. This girl went on to tell me that I've been nothing but a jerk the entire semester and that I needed to learn how to talk to people because I am just flat out mean. I'd hate to see how she does after she graduates and encounters the "meanness" of the real world.

spanfucker retire bitch > CounterTorqueSteer
12/04/2014 at 09:41

Group Projects are the worst. They are literally worse than pointless, they only serve to aggravate you at how incompetent and lazy everyone else is.

Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole > CounterTorqueSteer
12/04/2014 at 09:43

I admittedly missed a vast majority of class this quarter (due to a work deployment). However, I communicated with my instructors and group where we had a group project. Last night we had to present a project. Thankfully we all meshed really well and did a really good job on the project & presentation.

I don't know why people bail on group projects like you guys describe. Many hands and such.

jariten1781 > CounterTorqueSteer
12/04/2014 at 09:49

When we did group coding projects I'd always end up doing 80-90% of the work. After a couple times of just carrying everyone's water I started commenting the code blocks with something like:

//Completed by [my name], when modifying put your name and what was done

Normally the other folks wouldn't even look through it so pretty much my name would be all over the document with a few smatterings of other folks names (which I would have to go in and comment their code and add theirs). The profs noted that and adjusted the grades accordingly.

03mach1 - Now has a Fiesta ST > CounterTorqueSteer
12/04/2014 at 09:52

It always amazes me when other students just don't show up for class at all. It's not like each class is free. It makes no sense to pay lots of money and never go to a class. There's even people who drop the easy classes! One kid stopped coming because he hated the teacher, with two weeks to go.

I haven't experienced a group like that yet, but I'm sure I will to.

Aaron M - MasoFiST > CounterTorqueSteer
12/04/2014 at 10:31

When I was in grad school I actually didn't have any issues with people not doing work. Every once in a while something would go wrong, typically something done in good faith got screwed up or was done incorrectly (I was guilty of this too), but never malice or negligence.

Now, what did happen was that often I would take most of the work, sometimes hiding it from a partner or group member, because their contributions were so poor that I wouldn't be willing to turn it in. The worst was a presentation I gave towards the end of grad school with a partner who was from India. She was an absolutely brilliant engineer, but the combination of language issues and an utter lack of writing ability made her slides in the presentation appalling. I redid the whole thing and basically wrote a script. More work, but better than getting a C.

Scary__goongala! > CounterTorqueSteer
12/04/2014 at 11:05

Im so glad I've been able to avoid group work thus far. I have a feeling im probably going to get stuck doing it in my Marketing classes down the road.

CounterTorqueSteer > Scary__goongala!
12/04/2014 at 11:08

Oh yes. I'm all too familiar with marketing group work. Stay strong my friend.