This sem has finally got me into one heck of a bad mood...don't know how to start this but just gonna write it down. Feb 26th, 2nd week of the semester, was given an assignment where you have to be in a group of 4 and do one heck of a task and this should be handed in 3 weeks later (week 5), so I quickly teamed up with one of my friend(who I teamed up before, but unluckily we had 2 of the 5 group members who did practically nothing but with him as the leader we were able to survive through the group work and got 72%), but we were still 2 people short. He then said that two of his friends (a guy and a girl that I never met) were gonna join us and they did really well last time, so I was if they work then I'm fine.-huh By the end of the day we were suppose to make a decision on which activity we're gonna do but we ended up nothing...since they(the 2 people I just met) were busily talking to each other...so got no choice but to leave it til next week.<_< So week 3, mentioned to my friend that we should start reading the question and plan now so we can have enough time to fix any mistakes. My friend did try to discuss but...the other 2 apparently ignored us...got no choice but to discuss with my friend and he say next week group meeting.-_-2 Week 4, same thing happened, and haven't even started the assignment:mad:...friend decided to call for a group meeting next day morning....next day morning, meeting canceled-shock....starting to get a bit annoyed :rant:and decided to tell my friend to start this assignment by ourselves but he wasn't sure and decided to have a group meeting on the next day after the lecture(wednesday), Wednesday... group meeting, was happy to see both turning up and hoping that we would be able to finally finish this off.-bigclap Half an hour through the meeting, the guy says he need to see some client and has to leave and the girl for some apparent reason leaves with him-shock and he say he would be back by 3:30pm....so decided to screw those two gonna try and understand the assignment question and finish this assignment off ourselves. After the explanation, my friend told me that he'll wait for the other 2 and will explain everything I said to them, so went up to meet my high school friends since I told them I'll meet up with them after I'm done with the group meeting.-lol (little bit of relaxation) Wednesday night....asked my friend how did the rest of the meeting go? He told me they never did return-madsign1... Thursday friend said he'll meet those 2 in the tutorial class today (different subject tutorial) and will explain it and stay on msn there will be a group meeting tonight. Later that night....asked him on msn where's the meeting, he told me apparently the other 2 didn't understand all my explanation (he was expecting this so he arrange this msn meeting), he also then said they aren't online and they aren't answering the phone....-madsign1-madsign1-madsign1....both of us finally decide to do the assignment work... Sorry for making it this long but this is the briefest I can make it....Thanks for reading....need to get this out of my system without resorting to high levels of course language...
That really sucks and the worse is that they dont do anything yet get the grade from your efforts. Hope they fail miserably in other subjects, thatll teach them to be jerks.
Apparently I left this but I heard news that there won't be any peer assessing...so they get the same share of mark as we do
ahhh the joys of uni... i remember those "fun" group work where there is always ATLEAST one stupid idiot who refuses to understand wats going on....
simple, if they dont do any work, make sure their names arent down on the piece of work you hand in. Tell em to stick it!
the same thing happened to me i was in a group of six and no one worked so i talked to the lecturer and he said to so in the end i passed and everyone else failed lol as it was a core subject u fail u repeat the year am i an ass???
gd work zylo, its just like a competition student investor which i entered, 4 ppl are supposed to be in a team and like nobody did anything apart from me and woop woop, i got us through to regional final, absolute fuckers the rest are but i guess they still have to be in my team cos i need 4 ppl to progress. also, 1 now can't make it to the regional final but thankfully i got another friend who rele wants to do it and is gd at quizes so hopefully he will be a great help.
I would def tell the professor that the other two did nothing to help for the project that way the professor may be more lenient and give u higher marks since only 2 ppl actually did the work...
yeh that sucks well having the same problem here my uni at our final yr we need to a SAE formula student thingy we are a team of 25 ppl and half of about ten ppl from the tean cant do jackshit just had a presentation on wednesday we aere so badly criticised by our second marker got 40% for that shit our team manager the lecturer is such an ignorant bastard and my subgroup leader doesnt organize any meeting at all, doesnt care jackshit just doin his own part and this year we cant compete our car in the UK formula student i july, everyone is so demoralised and thinking of competing in germany we havent even built our chasis yet
hehe yeah as long as the lecturer/professor is aware of whats happening something "suitable" usually happens =) of cos don't look like an ass and be a full whinger but just make sure they know wats going on la
Hope you at least didn't put their names on the assignment. I really hate these kind of parasites. and also the kind that just stick around and watch you do all the work while they are txting or doing some other shit.
oh i hate it when they do that but the thing is they know that if ur the type of person who usually gets high grades and gets the work done ur def gonna do the work cos u don't want to jeopardise ur grade.
slackers...lol never team up with slackers...they do nothing yet they receive credit for the work. go give them a b!tch slap XD
It's hard to tell if a stranger is a slacker or not. And some people pretend to work hard in the beginning, but in the end, they do nothing. Flaming, if your assignment isn't over yet, you should really talk to your two members. Let them know that they did nothing. Hopefully, that will set them straight, but if they still do nothing, tell your prof. Your prof will make sure that your assignment will be marked fairly for you and your friend who did all the work.
sometimes u don't have a choice if ur put into a team. otherwise i wouldn't usually team up with slackers. then again, sometimes ppl who seem organised might slack off occasionally or if they have too much work from elsewhere.
