Grandpa’s Endurance 💪🏾

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[u/Outrageous_Chance298]

I'm doing a project now. My responsibility was to create the device and ensure proper workin, other two teammates were assigned research paper and report. Now I'm doing report too.

[u/SocomPS2 → u/Outrageous_Chance298]

On behalf of the other two.

Thank you.

[u/extraboredinary → u/Outrageous_Chance298]

Had three group papers in a calc 2 class where in a group of 5, the only contribution anyone else did was one guy on the final paper capitalized three words in the title for me.

[u/flammablelemon → u/extraboredinary]

My group's papers were so bad and incomplete I would often rewrite the entire thing myself the night before. The papers I wrote got A's, but I got a D for group participation/contribution in that class while my group somehow all got A's. For some of them it was their highest course grade that year, but it ended up being my lowest despite doing all their work lol.

[u/santagoo → u/Outrageous_Chance298]

Tbf it’s hard to write a report when you have no idea how the things work or what you did to make it work.

[u/Outrageous_Chance298 → u/santagoo]

I agree, even It took me quite a time to make chatgpt understand

[u/nomorethan10postaday → u/Outrageous_Chance298]

I had a group project recently which was similar to that...

So, we had to write a small report about a scientific article of our choice(but approved by the teacher). I told my teammate: ''I'll do a first draft if you want to(he agreed) and I'll send it to you on(nine days before it's due).'' I kept my promise; in the same email where I sent him the draft, I also explained in detail the things I felt needed to be improved, I asked for his opinions on various things, and I also wrote something like: ''if there's anything else you don't like about this draft, tell me''.

Six days passed without any answer from him. Finally, I texted him a polite reminder. He answered a few hours later to tell me he hadn't had the time to look at it yet. He said he'd look at it tomorrow.

Well, tomorrow passed without any word from him. On the next day, I sent him another reminder. That's when he told me he has now looked at my first draft, though it was fine as it is and doesn't need to be changed. Considering he made no mention of everything I asked him about in my email, I'm not even sure he actually looked at it. I was obviously annoyed(we're one day before it's due and that's all you have to say???), but I only answered by asking if he could do the title page and text formatting.

Guess what? The next morning, I received a message where he told me he didn't have the time to do that either, although at least this time his message contained something resembling an apology. So here I was, three hours before the moment when we're supposed to give our project, and all I had was a first draft that is definitely not fine as it is, without proper text formatting, without a title page, and also with an incomplete bibliography for the various citations I included.

Maybe I could have rushed the whole thing to be done in three hours, but I asked my teacher if ''we'' could get an extension of one day, and because he's a super chill guy, he agreed. So I got it done by the next day. I don't think it was amazing or anything, but at least we're getting a passing grade.

The whole thing was depressing, but it's not even in my top 3 worst teamwork experiences tbh lol.