1. GPA
Excuse me, when the group project is 20% of the grade and that grade is 25% of my GPA that is leaving way to much of my GPA up to other people. That affects my scholarships and shit you know.
2. Schedules
I'm supposed to be able to coordinate a time to meet 6 other people OUTSIDE of class? Half of them don't even show up to class, never mind know where the library is.
3. Work Distribution
Yeah, I know you're an architecture major and this is your elective, and I know you're a senior, but that does not mean I'm doing the whole presentation guys. Shut up and email me your power point before 2 am the day of the presentation.
4. Grading
Wow, really, you're going to give us ALL a 95% on our presentation? Even though I was the only person who spoke, and if you asked you'd discover I also made the whole presentation and I'm pretty sure the rest of the group never even ordered the book.
5. People
Really, you want me to talk to the kid who has worn the same shirt all semester? I purposely sit on the other side of the room from him and now your TA has randomly assigned us to a group and I need to associate with him? Not happening.
6. Power point
Power point is the most overused, badly used teaching aid ever. No one gives a shit about the topic, and power point doesn't change that. Your slides should not be a novel! There should probably be a whole class titled "How to Make a Power Point That Doesn't Suck" before anyone is allowed to participate in a group project. And for that matter, mandatory for all professors.
7. Slacking
Someone always takes control of a group project. It's not my fault I'm type A, slightly obsessive compulsive and have no social life. As soon as the other group members discover there's someone more concerned with their grades than they are, suddenly they're off the hook and they don't do shit. Great.
8. Slacking
Don't try and deny it, you're slacking too Professor. You love to assign group projects instead of a final because then you can take the last 2 weeks of the semester off, stop preparing lectures and just listen to us flounder on about some mundane topic while you think about what you're going to buy your 4 year old for Christmas. I see through that shit, and I do not approve.
This is college people, not 6th grade. Don't give me some crap about needing to learn to work together for the real world, I am living with the 3 messiest people in the world and I haven't killed them yet. I can work with anyone. None of my GPA needs to be resting in the hands of some stoner who can't even find his way to class twice a week. And no way in hell do I need to be boosting his. No more group projects, it's for the greater good!
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