I’ve learnt my lesson
Just a note to say that I’m very much alive. I know - it seemed really queer how I could grab the time to launch a new design here and immediately disappear after.
Many things to talk about - based on recent happenings that made me shift my perspective on a certain someone. I’ve been warned upteen times that she is not likely to change her ways, but still I held on to the hope that sometime, she will.
She’s disappeared from school for an entire term last semester due to an illness, and I constantly used it as excuse to cover up for her and her behaviour. She is after all, supposed to be a good friend - and so I continued to have faith in her.
Until now. I’ve realized I’ve been foolish.
Covering up for her irresponsibility when it comes to not contributing to group projects nearly caused the downfall of one that I’m currently working on now. I’m sick and tired of picking up the pieces, clearing up after her messes, and filling in the gaps of her (lack of) contributions. It’s sucking up my time, my energy, and it is not as if I do not have enough work to do on my own.
The presentation is tomorrow, and she knows fully well that she can’t make it for any meetings prior to the presentation on the day itself since she has an earlier class - which means we would most likely have to have one sometime during this weekend.
Instead, she jet-sets off to another country, rendering her practically unreachable. Me, and my other equally exasperated group member had to end up pulling things together.
I’m sure she didn’t expect to arrive home today and receive a big fat earful from me - and a pile of work to completely redo.
I’ve already rewritten half of her portion (the initial portion of which was completely irrelevant and directly plagiarized from various sources on the internet), and am already doing a couple of her presentation slides for her, on top of my own. Enough is enough.
Today is the presentation. (Slightly more than 12 hours from now.)
La-de-da. I shouldn’t be sitting here, twiddling my thumbs at 2.30 A.M. and fretting over whether she is able to complete everything by then, right?
Now, off to sleep.
C O M M E N T S (10)
I don’t like people like that. They’re irresponsible and expect others to do their work and sometimes even get others into trouble. I never liked working in groups. X_X
this is why i hate group assignments…it seems unfair to all get the same grade when someone is just riding along on someone elses work…
That is just terrible. I hate doing group projects for the same reason, there is always somebody ready to mess things up and not do their part…
Don’t lose any sleep over it. They’re are not worth it.
Hello my dear! Hang on in there! Jia you!
Her work ethics (or lack thereof) is disgusting. You know what? You and the groupmates that did their work go ahead ace your presentation for your parts and if she gets caught in the middle, let her take an earful. You get what you give, right?
I hope that you got some sleep and good luck on your presentation later today.
Unfortunately you are not blessed with a wonderful friend, but however you continued to be such a wonderful friend to her. She doesn’t deserve it and it seems that she has come to use that and is used to it. I hope your presentation goes well with or without her, and hopefully you won’t be with her in your next group. Best of luck for your presentation!
I don’t know how your school works, but for us, group participation counts for your marks. We write a review of our group members after our project. And the member who doesn’t contribute can get points taken off if the rest of the group feels that she/he didn’t help out enough in the group. If you don’t have that system in place, maybe you can talk to your prof about it. :D
I’m ALWAYS in that situation when it comes to group projects :(
that sucks i would be so mad but i never had school projgets liek that :( i want to say i love the colors in your layout and they look wonderful together
Ugggh. I understand only too well, Brenda. How many times have I ended up doing the workload of ALL my group members on top of my own …. *shudder*. Sometimes they’re just irresponsible and don’t do their work, and other times, their work is simply not up to my standard. =.= I hate working in groups.