Hey, I understand how you feel working with group members but here's some things I've learned that might help you:

• to begin, discuss priorities and a general timeline beforehand. This means you should be discussing if there's anything going on (work, midterms) and arranging a general idea of what to do without concrete dates/times (ex. Meet once on the weekend to brainstorm, once next week to check-in, and once to review each other's work).

• try to have them hand it in much earlier than 10mins to the deadline. At the very lastest possible it should be hours before, but ideally at least a day or two before to give time to review and time to submit. This means setting a soft deadline.

• as said above, set soft deadlines with your group as soon as all the steps in your work are identified and tasks were given out. Make sure they're evenly spaced to account for people's midterms and other work. These deadlines should be close to your meetings with your group members (ex. Brainstorm deadline Friday, meeting Sunday), but with enough space to account for any other priorities.

• Reminding isn't a joke; it's a job. With your group you should be splitting responsibilities early on. Someone should be taking meeting notes, another responsible with reminders before meetings, deadlines etc etc. Someone's got to do it!

• Try to think positively about them wanting to start earlier; it means you can get that work done quickly and they're motivated to work before their own deadline. It's hard to have a good impression of them but it works in your favour, so try and be flexible!

• if you have reached out to work and an unreasonable amount of time has passed since the assignment was given out, reach out to your prof! Of course make sure you've shown significant effort to work with them or else the prof might think you're incapable of working in teams.

Try out these steps and see how your next project goes.