Ok. So I literally did the worst project ever last year. So me and my friend were doing a project on sports for French. [spoiler]Im Canadian :3[/spoiler] Me and my friend chose Weightlifting/Bodybuilding. So we go to a gym and we start filming. Done filming and I go home and edit it (ykno I put in some dank m00sic). Next day I come to school and we were presenting last. Our video was literally 2 minutes and everyone else went like 10x more depth then we did. [spoiler]RIP[/spoiler] So we beg the teacher for 1 more day to work on it and she lets us. So we went to the school gym to record like 2-3 more minutes for it. My partner is reading his paragraph off his paper (BCUZ NO ONE GOT TIME TO MEMORIZE ALL THOSE WORDS) and he's standing in from of a mirror while recording as if he was taking a selfie so, essentially you can't tell he's reading off a paper. BUT THEN. He turned around... And while editing I never noticed BUT YOU COULD SEE HIM READING OFF THE PAPER. THE TEACHER SAID THAT YOU HAD TO MEMORIZE THE SCRIPT. So we died and cried a bit and I think we failed that project. [spoiler]Dont even get me started on the time we had to make our own song and music video for French (Yes. We wrote and sung a song in French and IT WAS SOOOO CRINGE.) If you guys want I can tell that story too lol[/spoiler] EDIT: OK SO THE TIME I HAD TO MAKE AND SING A SONG IN FRENCH. Holy shorts. It was horrible. First issue was we had to write our lyrics. So I wrote some really powerful lyrics in English then translated into French. the lyrics had meaning then I realized. We were making a Rap/Hip Hop song... I had to make it somewhat rhyme.... So after my group of 3 other guys are done our lyric sheets we print out the lyric sheet and wait until recording day. LITERALLY ONE OF MY FRIENDS SHOWED UP LIKE 2 HOURS LATE. We added in some dance moves and we made it a preeeetty lit video. My favourite part was when a security guard had to kick us out of the mall parkade. We all ran up to the very top so we could flex in front of the cars and throw 5 dollar bills around. We also saw someone I knew and ended up yelling Hi to her from the very top. I don't think she knows who I am. My friend threw a water bottle or something from the top and we made sure not to hit a passing car lmao. After getting kicked off of the Parkade we chilled by the library and filmed there a bit. So after 3-5 hours or recording we had about 3-5 good minutes of recording. [spoiler]Because guess what. Grade 9 and 10 students are horrible at time management.[/spoiler] We also had a cringey funny moments. Ofc I had to censor most of it because some kid was yelling "F*ck" and "D*cks". Anyways we did very trash. The teacher got mad because we didn't lip sync any of it and we reused some clips.

>Is the lazy -blam!- in group work I see I'm in the wrong area. I'll be leaving now.

This is why I do work alone as much as possible

Most of my group work experiences are repressed memories

>music presentation about different musical instruments from the Reinassance >One bully, 2 degenerates, 1 stupid girl with leggings (at least with a big booty) >All group starts talking about drugs and surf >Fortunately, I'm very, very, very authoritarian and I start insulting and getting furious >Everybody starts working. Seems better from what I expected >They send to me their part of the work >A complete sheet. I have to do all the work from all teammates, and sending the new one to them >Note: the music teacher hates me and I hate him, she puts me always with the worst groups >Day of the presentation. The bully smoked too much, wasn't even able to talk, the two degenerates thought that the presentation was another day. The girl with the big booty, at least, know everything. I share my part perfectly well. >The -blam!-ing teacher starts asking a lot of questions. I answered all (-blam!- yeah). >We get all members a 9, also the degenerates and the bully. She knowed that this will rage me. >I told to the deputy director (he is very sympathetic) and I told him my situation. >Many changes came: better groups, marks... >When I see my music teacher, I start smiling at him. Like a boss

Our group project was about the evolution of animals through google presentations. We had to give a couple examples with several different animals. Guy in our group decides to use a squid as an example. He added a bunch of animated dabbing squidward pics covering the entire slide. We get a D- in our project

When I was in 8th grade we had to do a project called future city. http://futurecity.org/ For those who neglected to use their website, it's essentially a city builder, with you having to plan out an almost, if not completely self sufficient city and all subsequent aspects of it. Food, water, power, waste management, housing, transportation, and anything else you can imagine. We wrote essays that needed to be at least two pages on the city and how it would function. I proceeded to write a 9 page plan covering everything we could need. (Would've linked it here if I could find it.) *Not boasting, it comes in later.* This is what happens when I play Banished. Good game by the way, I recommend it. I then proceeded to get grouped the two popular girls who think they're above everyone else and that they rule the world, and a kid who was actually pretty smart, just a bit lazy. We were supposed to choose one city from everyone's essays and then that would be out group city that we would make a model of. Being the kids that they were they instantly overlooked everything I had prepared and went with dumb popular girl #2's project, with #1 being supposed group leader. She made a page and a half with nearly nothing being planned and what was planned was a half-baked idea that wouldn't work without some magical forces changing the laws of reality. Great. I tried to make changes to the idea to make it actually work but they shot that down because stupid. Next step was to make our board, which is a massive piece of plywood. We were supposed to at least outline our environment and include roadways and similar things. Essentially just plan the layout. Now, these people were indecisive as all hell. While every other group got done by the end of period, we took 3. This leads into buildings and other things, but they couldn't decide on where they wanted to put ANYTHING, so we just skipped it. Now, what we were supposed to do was take old things like used jugs, egg cartons, etc., to make buildings and at least 1 moving part. I was bringing things in, but they decided to use a ton of old pop tart boxes for everything. Phenomenal work everyone. Then we actually had to do stuff. We had to make everything look like what it was supposed to be and get it working. After a month of disasters, drama, and a whole lot of stupid people yelling at me for doing their jobs while they were talking to other groups and throwing crap the whole time, I ended up having to do most of the project myself. Remember that we had 2 months of classes devoted to this. I also spent the last week replacing most of the damn pop-tart boxes with the kinds of things we were supposed to use and making them not look like a toddler made the project, something my group members didn't exactly enjoy. It was a pain in the ass. My fingers were raw and burned from hot glue accidents and I had a red semicircle on my forehead from facepalming so many times. The thing is, the worst part was so obvious what I had fixed and what was still original. A pop tart box with the words "POLICE STATION" painted across the top against a courthouse that actually somewhat resembles the U.S. Congress building and a vertical farm that has little pipecleaners coming off the side that resemble pipes leading to a facility that cleans the water and reclaims useful materials from the by-products by breaking down as much as possible, then returning needed nutrients to the soil. I had all of my stuff planned out to the letter and it actually saved our grade, but it still looked like half was done properly and the other half was a half-assed pile of garbage. When we had to present the project to the teacher, we decided that what we built, we would explain and present. I thoroughly explained what I had built and had an answer for every question the teacher, and another group who decided to come take a look, asked. When the questions came to my group members, they had nothing. "Um, It's a police station. *three seconds of silence* Yea." That was something that my group leader said verbatim. It's been seared in my mind. After about 5 questions of this I realized this wasn't working so I picked up the slack and proceeded to pull all the questions to me and pull the answers to the questions that were supposed to be theirs out of my ass. The carry was real. When that was over, we had to present to the class. I proceeded to do the same thing I had for the teacher and answered almost every question posed, leaving a few for my classmates because we had to. I was drawing visual aids on the board and everything while I was explaining and everything. When all was said and done we had to give peer reviews of our classmates and how they did. I put exactly what happened and what I thought about my group members, infuriating the two who peeked over at it to see what everyone else was putting down for them. Those two saw it as a threat and hate, so they decided to put on their papers that I didn't to anything and spent the entire time goofing off, breaking things, and harassing them. The teacher knew that was a lie and did something she normally didn't. (This is why you need to have a good relationship with your teachers guys.) Normally, everyone would get the same grade for the project itself, then a separate grade for the effort they put in. She failed the two girls on both. The other guy got the A on the project, and a decent grade on the group work, and that was because he actually did a few things after he realized what I was talking about with most of the ideas and how much the project sucked, and made the moving parts while I fixed the board. I explained this on my paper and most of the time that he wasn't working, he was trying to wrangle the two girls back in to help us. The two girls were furious, partly because they were the two most popular people in our grade, and partly because this nerd, (me), had the guts to not only tell them to their faces what they did wrong, but then stood up and beat them down when they tried to argue. Not to mention I killed their grade in that class. That was the best feeling ever, but the entire process to do that project sucked. One of the worst projects I've ever had to do for many reasons.

Y'know, I once ate an "F" to make a point in highschool. I did all the work and completed the assignment. But the day it was due, I decided to literally throw it all away. Right into the dumpster behind the school. No hesitation. Zero -blam!-s given. I still remember the faces the other two group members made when I told them... Also the faces when it came time for us to present. I got up and explained to everyone in the room what I had done and why. The teacher asked us to stay behind after class. He offered a one week extension for us to put something together. I explained that, mathematically, I could eat the F, skip the final, and STILL pass with a C which was just fine with me. Also that "the team" had the opportunity to contribute during original time period but chose not to do so. Why would I subject myself to that again with the same group of people, right? Teach actually chuckled. The other two were clearly not amused. If I could go back in time... [spoiler]I wouldn't change a damn thing.[/spoiler]

>class project >create le Utopia >me and mlg artist friend in same group >disgonbegud.jpg >our eyes meet >we knew >recreate Rapture from BioShock >plan out badass intro taking inspiration from Andrew Ryan >screwbiggovernment.jpg >end up doing 90% of actual writing work >friend spends 10 off and on hours on an artistic depiction of the city >everything seems god-tier >look over at rest of group that we elected to make 5 holidays >they're quiet wild cards, but they got this, right? >get up >badass intro quoted from memory >crowd is leaning in, the skillful writing and meaningful words actually bringing a high school class to attention >wegottemnow.jpg >quiet girl stands up >"our holidays are: um, first, Atheist Day >Atheist Day >rural ish school >-blam!-ing Atheist Day >class laughs and attention is lost immediately >back to the normal no-one-listens-but-the-teacher presentation >rip the dream

[quote]i want to move to china and be under Kim jong un's rule >Kim jong un >China >north Korea [/quote] how did he get that wrong?

Mine is actually fun in a horrifying way. 7th or 8th grade We were studying the American Civil War. Our history teacher (who was awesome) split our class into North and South and we had to semi-reenact all of the resources politics and military decisions, but use our own decisions instead of following the historical decisions. I was placed into the South and our group leader chose to appoint me as General Robert E. Lee to make the military decisions. From my experience, the North seemed to have the advantage of resources (as our teacher was trying to keep it as close to history as possible) and on top of that, he tried to give the North as many advantages as possible (you'll see why). But long story short, despite my teacher trying to give some extra advantages to the "North", our class simulation Civil War ended with the South winning. I've never felt so proud (at my tactics) and ashamed (at the implications) at the same time lol.

A long time ago back in high school, there was this girl in one of my history classes who I was always paired up with, this black dude and this chubby guy with a freakin beard Every time an assignment came around, I did the whole assignment in a period and the black guy brought his ukulele while the girl and I (we both were in some form of music, her in choir and I in orchestra) would take well known songs and make memes of them and we would sing all day to piss off the teacher The chubby guy sat on his ass and played on his DS and talked about how he was going to kill himself all day We were productive

Pretty much every time I work in a group that doesn't have at least one of my friends [spoiler]they're the only ones that will listen to me. If I don't have a friend in my group no one pays attention to me so I have no fuc*ing clue as to what the hell I'm supposed to be doing, so we end up failing [/spoiler]

I'd hate to sound like a cocky, self-confident edgelord, but for me it's just plain fact that group projects are always shit.

I don't see how this would be solved by limiting creativity. You worked with stupid people, and your project came out stupid. Realistically, it's your fault for not amending the situation when you saw it as flawed, so speaking in the condescending tone that you are is a bit unsubstantiated. Maybe next time you're in a group with people who aren't doing the project how you would like to be reflected onto your grades, you bring this up to your instructor, or do it yourself. I'm assuming you're in highschool. Literally the only thing it takes to get good grades in highschool is effort.