Let me tell you something, readers of my blog, nothing makes or breaks a class like a group project.
The best experience I had with a group project was in a Religion & Film class at the University I attended. I had two good friends in the group (that I actually met in the class) and it didn't matter how well we did, we had FUN. We involved eating/giving out food during the presentation, we learned some stuff and we laughed A LOT.
I've come to the conclusion if you want to have a successful group project, three things need to happen:
1) It needs to be assigned after classmates have gotten to know each other.
2) The classmates need to be able to pick their group members or their topic.
3) The professor has to give good guidelines on what they expect from the project.
The project I'm doing currently did not have any of these three. Thus, it sucks. I didn't get to pick my classmates (not that it would have mattered, the class meets once a week and no one knew each other when it was assigned), I didn't bother figuring out what kind of topic I would have wanted to present on so I just went along with whatever, and the professor has made the assignment so lenient, I think we could burst into song during the presentation and it'd be okay. Actually, that's not a bad idea...
So despite a few good first few weeks, this class has broken into a disaster and I have a final and presentation next week that can't come soon enough so I can move on with my life.
It's really too bad. I was hoping this class would be a motivation to go back and get my Masters. Instead, it was a gentle nudge of a reminder telling me getting a degree is no walk in the park...especially if you have to deal with ridiculous group projects.
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