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Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:50:54 GMT
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Chris,
Christopher Weeks wrote:
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> "Scott E. Sanburn" wrote:
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> > Sometimes, the
> > prof made us work in groups, and the people I got stuck with, I had to
> > do their work in order to get the good grade, and sometimes, I could
> > not, and I got a bad grade. I hate having my grade depend on slackers.
> > That is stupid as well, because my loans were riding on my grades.
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> When I was a sophomore in college I had to work with a group of five
> other people to write a 40ish page paper. We met over several weeks and
> it became more and more evident that this group simply didn't have the
> dynamic to make it happen. I asked my professor if I could split off
> and do it alone. I couldn't. Part of our grade was to see how we could
> make group effort work. I did it all. At the time I was bugged that
> they all got my 'B' for doing no work, but I got something so much
> better. I was the only sophomore that I knew who had written a forty
> page paper. From then on, I knew that I could write something of
> length. Maybe I should have been able to do that earlier - I have since
> met people who did it in high school - but that wasn't the norm. And I
> knew that even though I was kind of a slacker, when push came to shove,
> I could perform.
>
> That group project was very good for me. Even if I did resent it at the time.
I still resent it, simply because others dragged my grade down. I work
with people all day, every day. My performance reviews and my salary
depend on it. However, in school, it is not a real situation (See above
posts), and me having spent thousands of dollars to go there, I have to
depend on people that aren't motivated. It stinks, and I think it is a
bad place to go.
Scott S.
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| (...) When I was a sophomore in college I had to work with a group of five other people to write a 40ish page paper. We met over several weeks and it became more and more evident that this group simply didn't have the dynamic to make it happen. I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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