Because I want to talk about myself in this post but hate making entire threads just about myself, this thread is about experiences you've had where you felt like dead weight and whether or not you felt bad about it.
I'm in one of my last university courses(it's a Thursday class once a week) and I'm in a group with two other people. Thus far, we've had a few group assignments. It's been myself and another guy constructing whatever the assignment was from our perspective and sending it to the girl in our group for her to kind of put the best bits together. I'm feeling like I'm not pulling my weight, though. I did pull my weight for the powerpoint presentation, where it was mostly what I submitted and I came up with the handouts for everyone in the class, but they found a good article to review and I just kind of went along with it and she typed up the brief summary of it for the professor.
Two weeks ago I couldn't make it to class so I let them know via the school email that I was not going to be able to make it and to let me know how I could help them complete Proposal Activity 1, which was due the next week. They emailed a few days later and let me know they had finished the assignment in class and handed it in. Meh, okay. Proposal Activity 2 is due this Thursday and we had decided just to do the same formula we'd been working with. I get on the computer this morning to crank out Proposal Activity 2 and come to find out the other guy had sent his in to the girl last night and she had put that together with hers and submitted it about a half hour later. So I'm sitting here feeling like a shitbag for not contributing, even though I was doing it in a timely matter. And it's not like either assignment was massive, each were about three quarters of a typed page each. Also, this is the last group assignment, so there is no making up for it later.
I thought of typing mine up anyway and sending it to them, but that would be an exercise in futility as it will have zero effect on our grades and would only amount to an empty demonstration to appease people who may not even care.
I'm in one of my last university courses(it's a Thursday class once a week) and I'm in a group with two other people. Thus far, we've had a few group assignments. It's been myself and another guy constructing whatever the assignment was from our perspective and sending it to the girl in our group for her to kind of put the best bits together. I'm feeling like I'm not pulling my weight, though. I did pull my weight for the powerpoint presentation, where it was mostly what I submitted and I came up with the handouts for everyone in the class, but they found a good article to review and I just kind of went along with it and she typed up the brief summary of it for the professor.
Two weeks ago I couldn't make it to class so I let them know via the school email that I was not going to be able to make it and to let me know how I could help them complete Proposal Activity 1, which was due the next week. They emailed a few days later and let me know they had finished the assignment in class and handed it in. Meh, okay. Proposal Activity 2 is due this Thursday and we had decided just to do the same formula we'd been working with. I get on the computer this morning to crank out Proposal Activity 2 and come to find out the other guy had sent his in to the girl last night and she had put that together with hers and submitted it about a half hour later. So I'm sitting here feeling like a shitbag for not contributing, even though I was doing it in a timely matter. And it's not like either assignment was massive, each were about three quarters of a typed page each. Also, this is the last group assignment, so there is no making up for it later.
I thought of typing mine up anyway and sending it to them, but that would be an exercise in futility as it will have zero effect on our grades and would only amount to an empty demonstration to appease people who may not even care.