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Well, if I may see it from the upside: a bad team effort hasn't distracted your part much, and you were not "punished" for it either.
 
Yeah I'm not upset or anything. I'd just prefer to do it all by myself and be the only person accountable for it all. Even if it meant harder work.
 
I see.

Meanwhile, my son just voted against the Sea of Madness solo.... :eek: I'm not upset or anything. I'd just prefer he listens to his father more often, especially when facing important matters such as these.
Kidding people, kidding... :D He goes his own way.
 
I'm the same as Flash. I did one presentation with 4 people (all guys) few years ago. We split the work, I was supposed to learn my own part and make the Power Point presentation, while the others were supposed to send me notes from their parts that I could put in the presentation. In the end, no one sent me anything, 2 of them didn't show up and the ones that did were dressed like they were going to the gym. They also read their parts from handwritten notes (like 5 pages each) but couldn't be bothered to type a few sentences on the computer <_< So pretty much this:

The Flash said:
I'd just prefer to do it all by myself and be the only person accountable for it all. Even if it meant harder work.
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Or at least I'd rather have a group with all girls since on average they are much better students than guys, on my uni at least.
 
Forostar said:
I see.

Meanwhile, my son just voted against the Sea of Madness solo.... :eek: I'm not upset or anything. I'd just prefer he listens to his father more often, especially when facing important matters such as these.
Kidding people, kidding... :D He goes his own way.
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Your son has demonstrated excellent taste so far.
 
Later, you need to work with people who won't cooperate (well) anyway. The world is full of dumbo's and dickheads, so you guys are having some "fine" experiences.
 
When you can't choose freely who you'd like to work with, you have to learn to work with people who have a different (or non-existent) ambition level than yours, or people who are difficult to work with, or people who are just lazy. That's part of life.
 
Night Prowler said:
Or at least I'd rather have a group with all girls since on average they are much better students than guys, on my uni at least.
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My group was all girls, incidentally.

Dr. Eddies Wingman said:
When you can't choose freely who you'd like to work with, you have to learn to work with people who have a different (or non-existent) ambition level than yours, or people who are difficult to work with, or people who are just lazy. That's part of life.
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Chances are I'm going to make those people's lives a living hell. I can't deal with people who don't take their work seriously. I even get pissed off when I'm out playing basketball and my teammate starts taking stupid shots to "have fun".

But I'm studying to become a translator anyway, that's a job where you're mostly left on your own to do the work.
 
Sounds like you don't do many presentations. Group works and presentations (Google Slides, PP) are a huge thing in my school. Definitely teaches one how to act natural in front of people but the classmates you're grouped up with are usually a gamble. Some are very easy to work together with, others are a pain in the buttocks.
 
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Saapanael said:
Sounds like you don't do many presentations. Group works and presentations (Google Slides, PP) are a huge thing in my school. Definitely teaches one how to act natural in front of people but the classmates you're grouped up with are usually a gamble. Some are very easy to work together with, others are a pain in the buttocks.
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I did hundreds of presentations in middle school and high school. It's the reason I hate working in groups.
 
We used to do presentations in high school a lot too, but it was always done by a single person. I remember having one about 20th century America that got stretched out to nearly five hours. Yes, I kept rambling about Studebakers, Malcolm X, hippies, The Big Chill, Harding, Nixon... :D

I also used to have a presentation every single week in our music class (one of the reasons was I was the only one who did so voluntarily), but I guess that's no surprise. :D

But I rarely prepared. I just put together some PP stuff and went. No plan, no method, no guru, no teacher. So it was rather vivacious, but sometimes also somewhat "wild" :)
 
The Flash said:
I did hundreds of presentations in middle school and high school. It's the reason I hate working in groups.
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Yeah, well, it depends on the group as I said. It's understandable if you've had bad experience with your groups. Generally, I think the bigger the group the easier it is for the work to get out of hand. Presentations in pairs can be quite enjoyable.
 
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