Show me someone who has been assigned a group project, and I'll show you someone who has had a terrible group project experience. Although if the experience of having a bad group member in a group project is as universal as it's claimed to be… some of us must be lying. You never see or hear people talking about the group projects where they were terrible group members…
"Oh, yeah, I had this project with Jennifer in high school where we were supposed to do an oral report on the usage of the tersorium in Ancient Rome and its role in the spread of typhoid and cholera—totally had her do the entire thing, bro—it was epic!"
I've probably shared this before, but the icing on the cake of my school group project experience came from one of the final projects I had to complete to get my degree. This was for a non-disclosed pre-med course. I was paired up with an individual who absolutely could not care less about the project—as long as I secured them a top mark—since they had "more important" things to study for. I wish I could say I did something creative, but—quite liking that class and wanting to get a good grade—I somehow ended up letting myself get coerced into doing the entire thing. I'm not necessarily proud of it, but I got a good grade and avoided conflict.
That individual is a doctor now and—well, I'm not. So I don't know what conclusion we really should be drawing from all of this. All I can say is I hope they don't cut the same corners in their medical practice that they cut in their education.
Anyways, this group project member came up with a better solution… and faked a flat tire on the day of their oral presentation.
Next, see this other story of group project revenge.
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