I might strangle him...

[BabyPiglet]

So some of you have heard me talk about the group project I'm doing right now in my civilizations class. We have to analyze a historical document (The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant), and I'm in a group with 4 guys.

The 'leader' (we had to pick one on the first day and he volunteered) didn't contact us about it for almost 1 1/2 weeks after it was assigned. Well, now it and a presentation is due on Friday, and we're just now getting around to the rough draft.

There were 5 questions that needed to be answered in the (5 page) essay, so we each took a question and tried to make it around a page long. Nobody knew what anyone else was going to write. We each turned in our answer to the leader, and he put together the paper.

Well this morning he emails us the rough draft. HOLY. CRAP. This paper sucks really really bad. I don't know where these guys learned their freaking grammar, but they need to go back. It sounds like a kindergartener looked up a bunch of big words, stuck them together, and hoped that they would fit. The grammar and spelling is hideous, everything is really repetitive, the whole paper is practically incoherent.

Anyway, he asked us to edit it, print it out, and give it to him in class today. The nice person I am, totally fixed just about everything. I corrected as much grammar and spelling as I could (I did this a few minutes before I left for class, so I didn't have time to do it perfectly). Re-arranged a few things so they made more sense. CUT a whole lotta the repetitive crap out. But it seemed kind of...un-fixable.

I gave it to him in class, he says 'Oh sweet, I was never so good at english so I knew the grammar sucked.' -_-

He just emailed me the 'revised' copy. IT STILL SUCKS. AGHHH. I don't know what his deal is, if he can't type of what, or if he's just ignorant of my editing. I might so strangle him, burn the paper, and write it all over myself.

I'm -headdesking- that I didn't volunteer to be the leader. I'm fighting the urge to just re-write the whole damn thing. THESE ARE COLLEGE KIDS FOR GOODNESS SAKES.

Sorry you had to listen to all that, and yay if you read it all.

 

[Axel]

I hate dealing with the grammar-ignorant.

 

[That_Australian_Kid]

This kind of thing has happened before to me. on a smaller scale. but I just talked to my teacher, and got my parents to write a note, and I got the marks for completely doing a whole presentation the night before without C's help.

 

[pitt02]

All i have to say is group projects SUCK, everytime I do one my group stinks and I end up getting a bad grade then getting punished by my parents.

 

[PurpleDucky]

wow seriously?
that's pathetic
english grammar is quite easy. it confused me more when i actually learned about it, but it just comes naturally for me to type correctly..
FAIL

 

[imabrat]

Just wondering, but why didn't you contact him? If you knew it was due soon and you wanted to get a headstart on it, I'd contact him.

That said, I'd slap him silly. Next time, I'd tell the professor that we simply do not work in a group together and that you need to be with a different group so you can flourish in your academics.

 

[BabyPiglet]

Just wondering, but why didn't you contact him? If you knew it was due soon and you wanted to get a headstart on it, I'd contact him.

That said, I'd slap him silly. Next time, I'd tell the professor that we simply do not work in a group together and that you need to be with a different group so you can flourish in your academics.

Yeah, I emailed him but he never responded.

People who don't get spelling and basic grammar astound me. & vocabulary! Ohmygosh, who just puts random big words in a paper without knowing what they mean? It takes 10 seconds to type in www.dictionary.com, if that.

Lazy lazy people. Lazy.

 

[M.I.C.]

I have trouble participating in groups in which I'm not the leader so I tend to avoid it....you shoulda volunteered to be the leader or just taken over

 

[BabyPiglet]

I have trouble participating in groups in which I'm not the leader so I tend to avoid it....you shoulda volunteered to be the leader or just taken over

Yeah, I know. I have control issues so this is particularly hard for me. I'm fighting the urge to just scream at all of them and tell them to do it my way.

But that wouldn't be very nice.

 

[Babyjustrun]

Alllllwayyss be the leader, and if they're not doing a good job, do it yourself.
I think you should have something ready yourself in case your group fails hardcore.
Groups projects = epic fail and I HATE them. I'm not a leader, but if I'm in a group, I like to take charge so I know the work is getting done.

 

[::Snow_White::]

This is why I always make myself the leader. Lol.
I hate group projects. I end up doing everything myself.

 

[DramaQueen]

You have no idea how much I HATE group projects in Uni!
I had one last semester & I have one this semester and they make me want to stab myself in the eyeball.

My group is horrendous and always had excuses as to why they can't meet and then we wind up doing EVERYTHING at the last minute and it's such a pain in the neck!!

I'd rather just do independant work and be able to do it on my own time

 

[Cinderelli16]

I HATE group projects!
I always get stuck with bone heads who don't know what the hell they're doing.
So I always end up being the group leader, which I definatly don't mind, because I can be a bit of a control freak.
But when I'm not the leader, I go absolutely crazy. hahah

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

Eh. My school lives through group work. You learn as you go along. I prefer to lead. However, I know when I need to, and when it can be fairly cooperative.

 

[Ppufi]

GGAHHHHRRRAAA.

Yes, I know /exactly/ how you feel. I'm guessing you're a control-reak like I am? I've had more than a few group projects where I had to do every. single. THING. Even my friends dump the load on me. Dx

I'd go to your professor and explain, tell him you'll do the project either alone or with the other three, and seek some sort of revenge on the grammer-ignorant.