i don't mind group projects most of the time, but this is so frustrating
has anyone else had a class with weekly group projects? i've had a few classes like this before, and it's fine when your group members care and do their work. but this semester, i've been paired with unfortunately some of the most unmotivated people i've ever met. we have a group assignment due every saturday that all come together at the end of the semester for a huge presentation and paper. i actually think these assignments are interesting, but they require a lot of coordination and detail since each person's section connects to each other. i literally have to sit in the group chat and beg people to do their work, and even then, i can only get one person to join a zoom call or even reply to me every week. i then have to beg them in personal dm's to do their work on saturday's, and usually they send work that is honestly ai slop and often doesn't make sense (if they even do anything at all). and clearly we know this because our scores for these assignments have been poor. i tried to reach out to the professor for the second time now, but it's definitely a "you're an adult, work it out amongst yourselves" situation. i absolutely would, if i could ever get these people to communicate with me!
i'm a senior and i'm so close to the finish line, i'm so sad that most of my time in this class has been spent worrying about my grade because of other peoples lack of care. i mean, i get the value of group work for sure. i'm working 2 jobs right now that both require it. i just cannot stand courses that put this big of an emphasis on it. i've spent less time actually learning anything because of it.
i'm sure this all sounds very self centered but i just needed to get this off my chest :/