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Group work...
I’ve never really had a “bad experience” working in a group for a class assignment, however, I’ve had some pretty frustrating times. One particular incident I can remember is my first year here at Columbia. I was taking a critical thinking course and we had to break up into groups of four and debate against another group on a specific topic. Now, initially, we did take down each others information and broke up duties, like who was in charge of researching each point and who would type it all together. I just want to say that I did my part. I went over and beyond doing my part. I did everything in my power to get my group together and practice what we were going to say. Two knew exactly what points we wanted to make and how we were going to argue the counterpoints. One guy was a little shakey because he didn’t meet up with us until the day before debate day. And then there was the one. The one who made no effort in communicating with the rest of the group, the one who had no idea what he was going to say or who was saying what. In fact, the day of the debate, he decided to come to class late, showing up as we were all taking our place in front of the class. He did come with some papers, but God only knows what it was all about. In the end, we all ended up doing pretty well, even the straggler put in his two cents. I never want to have a repeat of this experience, my life is stressful enough without slackers to deal with.
