Here's somewhat of a rant and a discussion about group work. Now, I have a feeling group work will be important in pharmacy school b/c the schools that I interviewed both had P1 students placed into large groups that last throughout pharmacy school. What do you guys feel about group work?? Honestly, my first reaction is "AACK..". I really dread and dislike group work. I'll admit though, I go to a community college and it just seems like most of the students don't care about their grades. Anyways, I'm remaining optimistic and hoping I get in a good group for pharmacy school.
Anyone care to share some of your worst group work experiences? I'd like to share some of my group work experiences:
I'm just finishing Orgo II semester. A day in our lab went basically like this: My lab partner watches me do the whole lab, then when I go get some reagents, she grabs my lab report, opens it up and starts copying my notes (we are graded on our notes) and then when we...I mean I am done doing the lab, she volunteers to turn in the lab reports and product. She also did not know how to weigh our products in the beginning of the semester.
I was also in a biology group where our semester project was to do an experiment with 1 independent variable and 1 dependent variable. My group did not understand the importance of having a "control group". And they also wanted to test 10 variables at once. One guy said the more variables we have, the more impressive the report will be.
I was in a film class where we had to do a presentation on a film director and answer various questions about the director. Well, we basically never met up to talk about the project due to conflicting time schedules. The day the presentation was due, I couldn't get a hold of anyone. So, I basically typed up the report the night before. I came to class and my group was like "OMG what are we going to do??? We don't have anything done.... You typed out our presentation?? sweet, thanks!!"
Well, thats among the many reasons why I kinda hate group work. When I was working on my bachelor's, I'll admit, it wasn't that bad. But there's always that person thats in it just for the ride and volunteers to type up the reports or something, while the rest of the group does the meat of the project.
And then theres always that person with the 2.0 gpa or the person that never comes to class, that insists on contributing to the group by doing the most important part of the project or the part thats the most points.
Sometimes I feel like everything has to be a comprise between the smart students and the idiots. I swear, if math was ever done in group projects it would go something like this:
Project: Solve 2 + 2
group member #1: I think it equals 4.
group member #2: No, I think its 5.
Turned in project: 2 + 2 = 4.5
Anyone care to share some of your worst group work experiences? I'd like to share some of my group work experiences:
I'm just finishing Orgo II semester. A day in our lab went basically like this: My lab partner watches me do the whole lab, then when I go get some reagents, she grabs my lab report, opens it up and starts copying my notes (we are graded on our notes) and then when we...I mean I am done doing the lab, she volunteers to turn in the lab reports and product. She also did not know how to weigh our products in the beginning of the semester.
I was also in a biology group where our semester project was to do an experiment with 1 independent variable and 1 dependent variable. My group did not understand the importance of having a "control group". And they also wanted to test 10 variables at once. One guy said the more variables we have, the more impressive the report will be.
I was in a film class where we had to do a presentation on a film director and answer various questions about the director. Well, we basically never met up to talk about the project due to conflicting time schedules. The day the presentation was due, I couldn't get a hold of anyone. So, I basically typed up the report the night before. I came to class and my group was like "OMG what are we going to do??? We don't have anything done.... You typed out our presentation?? sweet, thanks!!"
Well, thats among the many reasons why I kinda hate group work. When I was working on my bachelor's, I'll admit, it wasn't that bad. But there's always that person thats in it just for the ride and volunteers to type up the reports or something, while the rest of the group does the meat of the project.
And then theres always that person with the 2.0 gpa or the person that never comes to class, that insists on contributing to the group by doing the most important part of the project or the part thats the most points.
Sometimes I feel like everything has to be a comprise between the smart students and the idiots. I swear, if math was ever done in group projects it would go something like this:
Project: Solve 2 + 2
group member #1: I think it equals 4.
group member #2: No, I think its 5.
Turned in project: 2 + 2 = 4.5
