Right now, I’m doing my last assignment for the end of this semester. Is been 8th months I studied in college. Well, everyone sure facing lots of pressure such as exams, assignment (whether can finish it on time?), and friends etc. For me, it is just assignment of course friends too.

Talk about the assignment that I’ve been rushing for the past two weeks, it is a critical thinking assignment which is a group work and due soon next week (30th), my group is going to held a presentation for the work that my group had done. Just a plain and brief presentation, sounds so easy but yet it is a tough job for us to accomplish that mission while the group member does not giving any help!!! Now…after two semester been hanging out with them, I realized that friends; he or she not a good teammate thou he or she was your best friends. Every time when five of us having discussion, she does not giving out any suggestion or ideas and just sitting in front of you, chit chatting with someone else; pretending that she know everything that my group has discuss. Yes, she's a great pretender! Owh….wasn’t she gone too far for that!

I recall, last week on Tuesday. As usual we had our discussion in library, she invited her “special friend” to join in our discussion. It’s okay for me as long as he did not disturbing us while doing our assignment. Guess what she have done? She as usual, sat there and chit chatting for the 2 and half hours. Oh gosh, the most funny thing was, after we all done she just asked for the paper and “wondering” what have we been discussed for the day. “ What’s the topic that we are doing?”, “ What is this?”, “What’s the meaning of this words?”, oh gosh at that times I was really mad at her. How many times we’d discussed our assignment? You don’t even know a thing especially the baisic things - what’s our topic for the assignment? Means, you do not contribute anything for your group, except TIME!!!

As I know, for others subject she’s doing the same thing. Did not contribute anything just TIME. All the teammates whom group with her as I recognized, all did complaint about her - laziness. Now finals coming, and after 6 months + we’ve been together , I saw and met their true colors by grouping work with them. I wish next semester I would not group with someone else which same the same “personalities” as she did.

3 comments:

fishtail said...

Frustrated leh. 'Kik sum' leh. Baru tahu got such people in your group? These people are called 'driftwood', haha! They just drift along without contributing anything. Goodluck to you with them :)

Anlee said...

Yea, hated it much!!! What to do??? Complaint? Backstab? Sometimes do we really have to do something that we don't like and while others think that the one's deserve it?

fishtail said...

If the rest of the group members feel the same way about that driftwood person, everyone could go to your lecturer and tell him/her. Your lecturer should then know how to award the marks fairly. Of course that way, you could lose one friend.