I have never, ever, I mean since primary school had a positive experience with a group project. There is always someone who does not do their work and slacks off or someone who produces work that they really didn't put effort into and now you have to go back a re-do the project. So you can imagine that when Erin assigned a huge group project worth a considerable chunk of our marks my face was reminiscent of Harry Potter when Dobby dies.
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Our first meeting as a group was the awkward "hey guys, we are going to be working together for the next few months. Hope everyone is going to pull their weight...haha". Fair enough every group has that not so enjoyable first encounter. After we did get to know each other a bit love was in the air and we started to become one big happy family. It all started with the burial park, really our first date. Surrounded by the deceased and looking at young men who had given their lives for their country we all started to realize that this was going to be good.Our weekly meeting turned into something that was looked forward to, we could hear about each other's week. Usually the discussion turned into the subject of Anthro classes since 3/4 of the group major in the field. Once the discussion turned down that road I kind of just sat there and (for the most part) was pommeled with disturbing facts like the existence of "Body Farms". It was all in good fun though.
We had our last meeting a week ago Tuesday. At the end Rachel stood up and exclaimed how happy she was our project was finished then quickly added that she would miss us and in a softer voice added we can all still hang out. I AM HOLDING YOU TO THE RACHEL!
To sum it up this was the best group experience I have ever had in my life. We worked well together, everyone brought different strengths to the group and we all did our work well and on time. I could not have asked for better people to work with and would do a project with them again in a heart beat.
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