Week 28 Results

A bad group doing a groupwork assignment

A good old-fashioned pack of wolves?

Details:

Here's what the group is like: One member is such a slacker you wonder how he/she even manages to breath. One is domineering and tries to take charge but is an idiot who knows nothing about the topic or the rules of life in general. One is kind of philosophical and asks questions having nothing to do with anything. The rest complain to you about how much work they have for every class, implying that you should handle more of the groupwork. Insert any personalities you come up with, too. Nothing gets done and frustrations run high. You're chained to the chair and the chair is bolted to the floor. (Thanks to David McMahan for many of the profiles of group members)
That, or a good old-fashioned pack of wolves. In the library. You're not chained to a chair.
That background is as close as I can get to the library carpet without undue effort

Name: David McMahan
Choice: Wolves
Comments: I hate group work with a passion. Nobody is ever motivated to get work done, and the group work assignments are always strategically given at those times in the semester when you honestly do not have to the time to devote to the group. That reminds me of last semester when almost ALL of my professors got the bright idea: "Hey! Wouldn't it be a novice idea if I made you work on group projects to present to the class? I mean, it's not like you're doing anything else, and my idea is SO 'original' that I'm sure you don't have to do the same thing in your other classes." I often wonder if professors believe that we devote our entire semesters to one class. With the exception of Joe Slack and a few graduating seniors, most of us have at least 4 IMPORTANT classes to take care of per semester! :>)

I'll take my chances with the wolves. There are a lot of good hiding places in the Cooper Library. (By the way, we need to videotape a whimsical game of hide and seek in cubicle farm on the upper floors sometime.) Besides, the wolves won't ever leave a message on your answering machine reminding you about all of the meetings they've scheduled--which happen to correspond exactly with the list you submitted of times you ABSOLUTELY CANNOT MEET.

Name: Allison
Choice: Wolves
Comments: I'd rather die in a brave attempt to get away from the wolves than to be remembered as "that girl who was so frustrated by the end of the semester that she couldn't handle group work, so she killed her group off." 'Nuff said

On second thought, can I combine the two? Maybe the wolves would get rid of the annoying group members for me...

Name: Jess
Choice: Wolves
Comments: Another rambling response by yours truly: 1) They are much easier to reason with, 2) it would be a quicker, more painless death, and 3) with all of those books it will be easy to knock them out. I think if I threw a book at a group member they would not be too happy, and with my financial situation being what it is, I would not want to be sued. The wolves would either accept me into their pack because they would not be able to over come my book throwing ability (possibly even making me their leader), or they would end up just leaving me alone. There you go.

Name: John Cleophus Taylor
Choice: Group work
Comments: Well you see... I'm not very good at doing grroup assignments anyway. I'm used to doing it all by myself since I usually don't trust others to do the work(unless it's latin...hehehe). BUT ANYWAY, the cool thing is that I always carry a pocket knife with me and on the day that I'm chained to the chair in my wooden(I can assume if I want) my knife just happens to be extra sharp. Anyway after a few minutes of cutting away the wood, I'd be free. I'd go home, do the project and leave that domineering loud jerk chained to his/her chair so I wouldn't be followed home or something. Oh yeah and I'd get my lemur(he's my buddy) to type it up as it is getting late and I'm tired of staring at this monitor. If I did need any help on it, and would admit so, I'd call my good friend Kevin Eudy up and ask him for help. Knowing Kevin is such the kind hearted individual that he is I know that he'd help me, don't tell him I said that though. Anyway, yeah I think that's about it, so goodbye all, that is my response

Name:Ryan Hardister
Choice: Wolves
Comments: I think we've all been there before. Heck yeah, I'll take my chances with the wolves any old day.

Name: jean the graduating bean
Choice: Wolves
Comments: being a PRTM major, I have already experienced the bad group scenario. I think that for a change of pace I'd like to try the wolves. Can I supersize that?