Collaboration has never been my strong point. Maybe it’s my bad choice (or bad luck in being paired) of group members, but most group projects I’ve ever done have almost always ended in me doing most, if not all the work, and the rest of the group pretending to have input but relying on me to fix what they do. I’m a perfectionist at times, and obsessive as well, so if I feel like others work is going to bring down my work that I’ve worked hard to complete, I feel compelled to chip in and ‘fix’ theirs so as not to fail. And most of the time it’s a good thing I have, because teachers have seen their work in comparison to my work and agreed with this sentiment. Unfair? Yes. Unrealistic? No.
Now that I’m at university with other people who care about the work as much as I do (and also care about wasting a ten thousand dollar tuition they have to pay back by dicking around), I’m pretty confident that this is less likely to be the case. Everyone has to pull their weight; there’s no room to sit back. So, as we draw nearer the group work section of every class, I just hope that I get put with like minded people who will work as much as I do, and that their hard work won’t lull me into a sense of complacency that makes me fall to the level of my past group work members…they do say you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain, after all…
