Students must feel like summer is so close, yet so far. The warm weather is rolling in, and both high school and college students are getting ready to run out of the halls for two months of pure freedom.
But before the summer vacation begins, there are still some tasks left to tackle. It's the dreaded time of the school year – finals – and students are loading up on coffee to pull all-nighters in hopes of learning weeks of material in a few hours.
Of course there are also those long research papers you had all semester to work on and probably are only getting started on now. But of all the uncompleted tasks, none is worse than the dreaded group project.
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And seriously, every student is complaining about these group projects on their social media accounts right now.
While we've all been there – and feel your pain, students – this is just straight-up hilarious. Memes about group projects have taken sites like Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr by storm. They express the pure hatred for being forced to pair up with unreliable classmates.
The Hangover meme that has popped up multiple times across the platforms — and pretty much sums up the people in the group. There is always one person stuck doing all the work, one who doesn't do a thing and one who says they did the work — but never shows up or answers your emails.
The key to tackling the group project is to make sure at least one of the members will actually do the work. While this is totally unfair, nothing is worse then being in a group where no one does a single thing — unless you are that person who is stuck with all the work. What is the point of pretending to work with others, when you can just do the job yourself?
#batman #thedarkknight #capedcrusader #DC #DCcomics #ipreffertoworkalone #alonetime #groupprojectssuck #nightshift #noneedforrobin #nosidekickshere A photo posted by Dallas Teague (@teague_youreit) on May 11, 2015 at 1:43pm PDT
Then there are the instances when you prefer to just work alone because you just don't want to work with the others. While this is rare, you may be the type of student who volunteers to do the majority of the work. You may assign the other group members smaller tasks so they are forced to contribute and you can pass the class. Maybe the teacher should give you all the credit.
memes about group projects are EVERYTHING https://t.co/ZhKX3TJ85s pic.twitter.com/ITxfOqAUUx
— Girl With No Job (@girlwithnojob) May 4, 2015
One of the reasons group projects are so hated is because every member of the group has an excuse for something. You all plan to meet after school one day — then one person can't make it. You all plan to gchat each other, but then somebody's computer magically crashed.
Even though they are tough to get through, group projects teach you important life skills — such as how to work with others, the power of communication and how to brainstorm together to come up with unique ideas.
Remember kids, there are worse things in life.
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