Everyone knows the struggles of group projects all too well. They may seem really great at first, but usually by the end, they’re just causing headaches. The characters of Parks and Recreation may be more experienced than we are, but they still seem to feel our pain.
When the professor announces there’s a group project, one of two things will happen…
1. They say you get to choose your group, and you have friends in class.
2. They’re pre-assigned groups.
Next comes the nearly impossible task of trying to coordinate your busy college schedules.
When you finally find the time to meet, you realize how much you’d rather be doing this yourself.
It doesn’t help when you get stuck with the weird people.
Sometimes you’re lucky and get the person in your group that does it all.
You may even get a group that actually works together. Inevitably, you might get a little distracted.
The worst situation is when nobody seems to take charge, and you end up needing to do it all by yourself.
You always end up putting in way more work than you should’ve for a group project and feel like you need a long nap.
It’s all worth it in the end when your final product is amazing.
The best feeling, though, is knowing that it’s all over with.
At the end of the day, group projects are a necessary evil. It’s likely that working in groups in the future will be the “norm,” so we’ll need to know how to work well in groups. Although for now, we’ll continue to pull an April Ludgate face when we hear about a new group project.