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LTK:
I completed that 3000-word paper on connectomics today, and in celebration, I killed a thousand demons in Painkiller: Redemption.
Now all that's left to do is to complete the data analysis assignment I'm doing with four other people. It turned out pretty okay, seeing as the tasks could be distributed easily, but I still get a bad feeling every time we need to do a group project.
With every assignment that you're doing with three people or more, one person (or more) is inevitably going to slack off and have the other two (or more) people do all the work. I've had projects where I was the slacker and projects where I was doing all the work, and I've found that the hard workers can often facilitate others slacking off by leaving them no work to do because 'they will mess it up anyway'. It sucks both ways.
For me, the ideal collaboration is between two people, so that both involved feel that they have responsibility towards the other, and that it will inevitably go wrong if they go behind each other's backs. It's better than working alone, when you have no one to tell you off when slacking.
So how are your experiences with group projects? Good, or bad?
Nodaisho:
A lot of colleges that have been around for a while have/had a firing range. It was pretty common to have a competitive rifle team up until later in the 20th century. Some colleges still have competitive shooting teams. Colorado State has a shotgun team that goes around the country for competitions. They don't shoot clays on campus, though.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Nodaisho on 06 Mar 2011, 16:37 ---A lot of colleges that have been around for a while have/had a firing range. It was pretty common to have a competitive rifle team
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Yeah my highschool had a riflery team. The new law under scrutiny isn't just to allow guns on campus but to allow students to carry around concealed handguns:
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/22/texas-weighing-concealed-handguns-on-campus/
Nodaisho:
Yeah. I didn't want to get into another goddamn gun debate, though. It always turns into "Well I feel" this, and "Well I feel" that.
CSU has allowed guns on campus for a long time, and most of the community colleges in Colorado were forced to as well, by a lawsuit last year. It's to allow people that already have concealed handgun permits to carry on campus. Practically, that also means they can carry to and from campus, while previously they would have to leave it at home since there are no private gun safes on the edge of campus.
Fun fact, pretty much the same bill was going through Texas legislature in '09. It was looking like it would pass, but then a filibuster of a completely unrelated bill ran the rest of the bills out of time.
Jimmy the Squid:
--- Quote from: LTK on 06 Mar 2011, 15:08 ---So how are your experiences with group projects? Good, or bad?
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I've been pretty lucky with group assignments so far as most of the time I've gotten to be in groups with people who I am friends with and who are not shit at the class. My thesis this year is going to be based on group work though and as far as I know the groups are allocated based on people living near each other. I live an hour and a half away from my university so I don't know how this is going to go.
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