Alright, I will admit, I can be a bit of a control freak. I get that, and I'm aware of it, and I promise you, I've been working on it. I talk to my other groups members, I push for them to participate and help me. I ask if they want to do something, I give them choices on what they want to work on. I may gravitate towards being the team leader and taking control of the projects, but I can only blame myself so much, because every time I've been in a group

ALL

OF

MY

GROUP

MEMBERS

ARE

SHIT.

Okay, that's an exaggeration. I've had like two groups that I actually liked.

But everyone else? Good Lord, no wonder I have control issues when it comes to group projects. No one, and I mean absolutely no one, tries to exceed expectations, or do their best. Hell, I was lucky if they even did anything at all!

I always got the shitty groups, and I have no fucking idea why or how. I always get the people who say "yeah I can do this." And when the time comes, I end up doing all the fucking work because their work is either half-assed or non-existent.

Now, I could be the bad guy here. I could just have some stuck-up, A-student expectations that think anything below A material is shit.

But apparently, so do the teachers, because if I leave stuff the way they are, we get solid Bs at best. And as an A student, I don't take B's as a satisfactory answer. I don't. I worked too hard for my other group remembers to drag us down to a B. Not worth it.

This is why I am so grateful for college professors who say "Now if no one in your group is contributing then just email me and I will attempt to remedy the situation."

I did that once. Yeah, I was the whiney asshole who told on the professor that no one else was contributing. Because I was compiling the PowerPoint presentation that everyone else has to follow. I had to collaborate with everyone in our group to get this thing done. I emailed everyone two weeks before the presentation was due. One week later and I got exactly 1 out of 9 group members to answer back. If everyone 1 out of nine people you talked to talked back, you'd probably be as pissed as I was. So yeah, I emailed the professor and bitched about my teammates.

My own sister called me a bitch for ratting those people out. So I'm sure you can tell which of these people she is.

Regardless, I am pissed now. Why?

I'm in a 1 credit hour class that meets once a week. I have a group, of three, myself included, in that class. And every month we have to write a short-ish paper about some topic. Okay. I wrote the first paper, and so it makes sense that I could either write the second, or relinquish that to someone else in the group if they so desperately wanted to. I wouldn't like it, but I'd do it.

Well, one other girl in the group wanted to write this paper about one of the topics. She seemed really excited about it, so I said "ok" and entrusted it to her.

It is Tuesday, 9:00 pm. It is due Thursday at 11:00 am, and I have classes and other work to do in between them. And I just got the paper.

And guess what it was.

A shit paper.

Oh my lord. I thought English was this girl's second language. I'm almost positive it is. She speaks it fluently.

But she can not write for shit.

I stared at it, absolutely mortified, in bed, on my tablet. And she said, and I quote: "Please edit this paper a lot because I want an A!"

Holy shit girl, we are lucky if we get a fucking C on this paper.

So naturally I'm waiting until tomorrow, when I have all this free time, to do it. (That was sarcasm.)

But I am not staying up until 2 am to correct some shit paper, I do have time tomorrow to do it. So that's when I'll do it. But I am mad. I trusted this girl to write a fucking paper, one she herself wanted to write, and she comes back with this an expects an A. I have no words.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I have such a hard time giving up control in group projects. Because I literally have no time for shit like this. But I always end up with shit like this. So it becomes a problem.

Goodnight!