It's even kind of pathetic

[LPShinodaFM]

Well, i'm kinda really pissed off right now. I ramble on forever when I’m like this, so yea.

 

No, i'm not having problems with guys or family or my sexual orientation or whatever. It's pathetic school work. Not that i'm not incapable of finishing it or not willing to or such, it's the group projects. It's just stupid how the teachers *know* that there's no such thing as absolute teamwork in these projects. Either one person's gonna be doing nothing, or one person's doing everything. Yet they still give them out, as if they're saving you from "actual" work. And what else is, the second person i'm talking about... is always me.

 

Maybe it's just my personality, that i am very rarely satisfied with the works of other people and must alter it in some way or the other, that i usually take on most of the work and make the others do some little snips and fringes to show credits. I know sometimes that it's my fault and that i put too much work on myself resulting in late nights, a foul mood, and complaints. (i'm a major procrastinator also) But i'm trying to change so i can ease up, lower my expectations, and spread the workload... hehe, Yea right

 

Well last week, before March Break (which is like a week off school for us Canadians), our English teacher gave us a group assignment (<s>i just love her for it... </s>). A skit on a chapter of our novel study book - which, i should add, is way beyond most of our levels. It's like due, the immediate week after the march break (which we should have had our written skits finalized by Monday, and we should KNOW our parts by Wednesday) So basically she wants us to write our skits over the holidays. No big deal, really, but i just so happened to hafta go to New York for five days or so. So before i left, i told the two guys in my group to write their own version of the script, send it to me via email, and i'll fuse everyone's copies together. I had to try to reach the other girl (who, if i may add, is more responsible) in my group cuz she was absent, yet either she's gone for vacations or her phone is busted. I couldn't get through.

 

Well, heck with it, i'm on vacation. I have no problem of writing the entire script by myself when i come back, but our teacher emphasized on "a equal spread of load" and she spoke directly to me that i have to "give the others a chance". Screw, i don't even think one of the guys in my group has ever *written* a skit. But, i told one of my friends to keep trying to call the other girl and put my trust in the guys that they would write the scripts. So, I’m off.

 

So, I'm back. I check my email. Alas, no one has sent me any scrap of anything. Of course, i thought, maybe they forgot to send it or something but wrote it anyway. I went on MSN, found one of the guys online, and I asked him whether he wrote the script. You know, I’m a procrastinator too, a major one, and I know sometimes you can’t help pushing it till the end of the week. Also, it’s still Friday. But it really pissed me off when he replied “Oh yeah. Now I remember. I’ll start tomorrow.” I told him that if he doesn't do it I’ll throw him in a ditch and blocked him. Truthfully, I didn’t expect it from him anyways.

 

Then I asked my friend about the girl. She told me that she just couldn’t get through. Well, there goes my second line of hope. But she told me she’ll keep trying. The last guy? Well perhaps he would be more dependable, and I saw him working on it before I left. But honestly, I know I would be totally unsatisfied with the quality of it. Well at least I’ll still have the plot and main stuff... hopefully. But he hasn’t been online and I apparently don't have his phone number.

 

So here I am, unable to see any amount of work from them, and I’m supposed to act like a leader and encourage teamwork. they were just joking the other day about how I’ll be like “ok, I’ll take your drafts home, and put something together” then return with something totally new. And I was just like, lol yea, I’m like that. But now I don’t even see anything from them. I really don't want to write the script by myself, have the teacher totally know that they didn’t help, and give us this huge talk about giving others a chance where I’m supposed to listen intently to and nod and feel all sorry. Besides, we have this huge science project (individual, thankfully) that everyone else have mainly finished but I have to revise because something went wrong with my experiment so I won’t have much time either.

 

Tomorrow, I will try to reach the other guy to see if he’s done anything, try to reach the girl or something, and continuously stab verbally at the first guy through msn to get him to finish the skit.

 

Honestly, I am so tired.

 

P.S. Yes, I do write a shit load when I’m in the mood

[Cloud]

Sounds to me like you do do to much work... Sounds like you can't even help it lmao!

What I would do is simply complain to the teacher, tell the teacher no one is doing anything yet you keep on trying...

Is this English work that important? If it isn't then maybe you should just disregard it.

I don't know, but I would NOT do the work for anyone.

[Mr. X]

try to coax them into DOING it, but do almost all the work and keep that behind your back just in case.

[geeko]

Sounds to me like you do do to much work... Sounds like you can't even help it lmao!

 

i think he's[??] right........its not that im blaming you for it,but i think others are already depending entirely on you for things which are not your problem anymore because youre too 'good' or 'nice'....uh....here...why not try showing them that you dont care anymore too about them??this can show them that if they wont act for themselves,they will definitely fail.....not that im saying you should be selfish..but if youre not the leader,why let them treat you as one and always depend on you?? i mean hey,its also tiring to keep ordering them to do their responsibilities but no one even listens....

and hey....chill out a bit.....dont ever let school work hinder you from doing other things for yourself...

hope ive been able to help you...

[Sygy]

ach, thats has happened to me aswell. the best thing to do is for you your self to do your share of the work to an amazing standard, so when you get back to school your not in trouble because actually did your share. if the others want to be lazy berks just let it all bow up in their faces.

[white Angel]

If the other members of your group dont want to do their share of the assignment then that is their problem, not yours. Just do what you are supposed to do and let the teacher know that you did your homework and you shouldnt get penalized for what the others didnt do.

 

Oh, and enjoy your nice long rant?!