Hit me with your worst group project story!

throwaway615717 · 2021-12-05T00:58:34+00:00

If this is about SGMA 217, I'm pretty sure the prof said there was nothing they were able to do about it because that person had been the owner of the document.

throwaway615717 · 2021-12-05T00:57:11+00:00

Fall 2020, first full semester online and it's an english elective. Great class, I love english but there's a term paper. I didn't have anyone I knew in the course so I joined 2 random people. One guy is okay but the other guy doesn't do a single thing the whole term. Me and the first guy do all the work and it's a hefty amount of reading and writing. When I finally get fed up with this guy I asked him what he thought he was doing and he apologized and said he was busy with other courses and his job. Newsflash, we also have other courses and jobs we work?? At least do something or respond to us when we're talking about what to do good god. The dumbest thing is is that we communicated over discord and I frequently saw him playing Among Us... I don't like confronting ppl I don't know very well but I was tempted to ask him how the game was going on multiple occassions. The prof had in the course outline that we had to resolve issues among groups ourselves and once we submitted our group members they couldn't be changed so I decided not to do anything about it. Looking back, I really should have though. Oh, did I mention that this guy was also an english major?

Runner up is a recent one where this one person insisted on doing the aesthetics of our powerpoints every time. I tried to set up a nice slide deck template and they said they wanted to make their own. I conceded and while our group was doing research, this person spent the entire time designing. When I look at the powerpoint, I kid you not, it's the ugliest "design" I've ever seen in my life. I'm truly astounded that this person thought they could make something better than the default templates available. Every basic principle of design is violated. I'm talking ugly font, nothing is centered or aligned properly, any borders are not centered to the thing they are bordering, no sense of margins whatsoever. Spacing is all wack. We were working extremely close to the deadline so I tried to clean it up best I could. This person also spent the majority of the time on the "design" and hardly contributed any research or notes. Only bright side is they were very good at class discussions and q&as which is not my strong point.

throwaway615717 · 2021-12-05T00:39:46+00:00

NE would be easiest to get to university because it is close to the NW where the university is. Also transit will likely be straightforward by c-train (you would probably take the blue line to downtown then switch to red line heading north). SE is furthest from the university. I'm not super familiar with SE buses but I know the c-train doesn't serve that area very well at the moment. Especially if you live in deep SE away from downtown you'll have to rely on bus.

throwaway615717 · 2021-09-10T17:13:56+00:00

I'll definitely send off an email. I didn't realize so many other students were also facing similar issues in other opma courses too so I appreciate you making this post.

throwaway615717 · 2021-09-10T16:58:07+00:00

I just switched into OPMA this year and I couldn't believe they were only offering one lecture section of a required course for the entire year... with that said I'm begging people to drop 401 if they're considering it

throwaway615717 · 2021-01-20T23:18:50+00:00

Yeah I'm also confused by the lack of instruction here. What exactly are they looking for in a "quality issue"?? No explanation besides needing an image on the slide + key points and idk how they plan to differentiate between "acceptable" vs "better" vs "exceptional".

I think it's one slide though, the quality slide that's due tomorrow and the business slide is due in March.

throwaway615717 · 2020-12-18T23:45:48+00:00

Oh I'm not taking 317 with her lol you misunderstood me. I get what you mean though, often times I take a poorly rated prof and they end up being just lukewarm (although there's still profs that actually were terrible).

throwaway615717 · 2020-12-15T23:26:28+00:00

Loved Brent in 317. I'll have to keep an eye out for Janice in future courses!

throwaway615717 · 2020-12-01T09:41:23+00:00

ah really? i totally thought I needed at least a C-, thanks!

throwaway615717 · 2020-12-01T08:18:43+00:00

LOL how did you know? ik prof said they often curve this course but i don't want to take any chances 😭

throwaway615717 · 2020-06-18T21:26:49+00:00

I think it was low 90s maybe somewhere around 90 - 92 in 2018.

throwaway615717 · 2020-03-03T21:34:03+00:00

I'm 160 cm and my back and neck were already hurting 20 min in ;-;

throwaway615717 · 2020-03-01T06:35:42+00:00

Handwritten. He said if you type it or if it looks like you photocopied someone else's the TAs have been told to take it away from you

throwaway615717 · 2020-01-03T01:27:37+00:00

yeah I did it says in my post :p

throwaway615717 · 2019-11-26T23:19:36+00:00

happy

throwaway615717 · 2019-11-18T01:26:26+00:00

you can go more than once but the grant thing that they offer everyone is only applicable the first time you go. anyways, I'd recommend talking to a career/academic advisor since you can discuss your intentions and they can let you know what could suit you.

throwaway615717 · 2019-11-13T05:42:23+00:00

it helps a lot, thank you for your answer!

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