Don’t worry about it Eva. When group members are like that, you have every reason to quit. If you feel it necessary, explain to them that you left because they would not work, etc. and leave it at that. Who care what they say. You and the teacher know what was really going on. If all else fails, do as Nulani said.
I thought they were dicks when I heard read this, I still think it now.
listen to sorcerer.
Okay…inhales and exhales I’ll try to be a big girl and face them today. I just hate confrontations though.
The confrontation may be tough, but just be confident. Going by your post, the project had become a sinking ship, so there was no reason for you to stay aboard if you couldn’t help fix the problem, especially if the leader is a dumbass. You might get prattled at for being a ‘tattle’ or whatever, but the bottom line is you did what you had to do and came out on top (or, not on the bottom, at least).
I just don’t understand these “angst stories”
Maybe you should stop playing video games all of the time! Ha ha!
Thanks for everyone’s replies, nothing came of the incident except that I was largely ignored >< Oh well, I pass they fail, nyah.
Well done to you girl,
They can just fail their asses,
Because they all suck.
On cbc, tehre was a rock program and these teens had all these angst stories. I dont know why they told them, it is not like they are famous, so who cares. They would usually have celeberties on something liek that
I also didnt know why they were regarded as angst stories. Some of them sounded like the kids did something like vandalize stuff. I think its because there feelings were strong, and things sorta feel epic like hta tfor teens, or seomthing like that
Why does anyone care if it’s a celebrity? I don’t give a shit if Britney Spears or Brad Pitt happened to have an angsty experience. Big wow. Join the club.
giggles and claps hands The crowd demands an encore!
When you’re just happy,
In the end, they’ll hurt the worst,
'Cause you graduate.
Team project with assigned teams are almost always a pain, yet many teachers still impose them on their students because they believe it give a better idea of how things work in the real world. Obviously, at some point in your life you’ll have to work with people you don’t like, hell you’ll have to work with people you’d like to strangle, so assigning teams does in fact reflect this nasty little fact of life. However, one thing many teachers fail to realize is that most students are either lazy, so swamped with work that they don’t have time to get the job do, or they’re just plain bad. Anyone who just sat back and let everyone else do the work or run a project into the ground wouldn’t hold a job for every long. So sometimes assigned teams result in a hellish situation far worst than anything you’d ever see in the real world.
Believe me, I’ve had my share of hellish teams, with projects spread over two semesters where 1 person vanished at some point and another did nothing for 9 months leaving us with 3 people to do the job of 5. There comes a point in any team project when if things are going terribly wrong and someone is driving the project into the ground, that you’re perfectly justified in talking to the teacher to try and resolve the situation. The teacher’s role is to teach, not to fail you (that’s just a bonus), so if you’re in a team that is doomed to fail and all your efforts at fixing the problem have been rebuffed, then you shouldn’t feel guilty about going to see the teacher and outlining your problem, it’s the teacher’s responsibility to try and help find a solution. You deal with it, is not an acceptable solution, and if a teacher ever tells you that even after you’ve tried everything then I’d go see someone higher up in the department to try and get some help.
I find the best way to avoid this situation is to try to be the one in charge of the team. Sure, its a little bit more work, but it does give you additional options to try and resolve the problem. For example, in that project where someone did nothing for 9 months, we stopped assigning him work after 3 missed deadlines, and left out his name on the reports. Needless to say his grade nose-dived, and after a while he came back to us, asking for work, he didn’t do it, so again we left out his name. Finally the next time he came to us we simply refused to assign him work. In the end, the teacher had to come to us on his behalf and plead with us to give him work (he knew we were right), because the project was worth 70% of the grade so we were failing him. Believe me, after that he did his work, he even gave it in early.
Sure, it’s an extreme solution, but some problems require a very large mallet to resolve, you shouldn’t feel guilty about doing what you feel needs to be done to fix the problem. In fact it’s to your credit that you lasted so long, I would have cut my losses and hung my team out to dry long before.
I dont care about celebreties either, but i dont really care about random teenagers. I dont know why they are sad
Neither do I. But Eva isn’t any random teenager, she’s a teen who posts on RPGC Agora, making her important, relative to celebrities anyway.
So because I’m a teenager I’m therefore sad? So if I was 23 and posted this then it would be different? I’m really not understanding you, Mew. Those who didn’t care didn’t post- I’m not holding a gun to your head or anything.
That being said, Dark Sand’s late contribution was also welcome 
Maybe I can learn from my mistakes and prevent this from happening again.
Listening to Mew is like pissing in the wind, its a novel idea, but quickly you realise it accomplishes nothing other than make your feet wet.
Angst is cool! Let them all burn in hell I say! Anyone who tries a guilt trip should be laughed at, hell if they tried that on me I would just laugh and coccasionally point out how much they are going to fail since thier puny grades are in your hands or something, man, that would RULE!
Actually, Evangelion, your story is ok
Well Mew, maybe they had random troubled teenagers on TV explaining their problems so you could understand why they felt that way, instead of saying “lol they r sux becuz they sad who carez they arnt famuousuusus.” Some people have problems, and have reasons to be sad and troubled. While many teenagers are just plain angsty, to group all teenagers into one pot and say “Idunno why they’re all sad, they’re just stupid” is just assholish.
My story is ok? Ok as in I’m a fabulous storyteller or something else? Mew, it may come as a shock to you, but teenagers have social pressures and problems as well. Not just “celebrities”.