While chatting with two coursemates in university the other day, a coursemate asked what she should do to her groupmate, whether to give her the easiest part of the research report, methods, or not. We were thinking that we shouldn’t ‘pamper’ these irresponsible people all the time.
Then a friend from INTI just complained to me that she has a paper due tomorrow and nobody in the group is willing to do the conclusion part and to compile the work.
While reading the methods of a research report just now, I suddenly realized, I’ve never done the methods part in a group project. I’m always doing the literature review and/or the discussions part.
Eh, how come the irresponsible ones have the luxury of doing the easiest and least burden part ar?
Then I recalled… I told some people that we should let a coursemate know that our department now has the very geng program installed in the computer that they can easily track plagiarism so that she still has another chance to make correction to her bad attitude before its too late. Someone was saying that we had given her so many chances by now. But… at that time… I still thought that we should give her another chance…
Then I also recalled… I told my INTI friend that instead of feeling frustrated over these irresponsible people, she might as well do the conclusion and the compilation lar. ‘Think positively, you learn more when you do more as long as it’s not too much for you. I believe that the conclusion wouldn’t be a big problem for you’, I told her. Then she responded, ‘It’s a big problem for me’. ><
That’s what I’ve learnt from the group assignments especially from the terrible experience last semester lar.
But then the idea struck me while I was reading the journal. Eh, why lar irresponsible have the luxury of doing the least burden part? Why why why?
I’m stuck. I don’t understand.
I still believe that instead of feeling frustrated and to spend time to bug the irresponsible ones to do their work, I rather do the work myself. And I still insist that I won’t grab your chances of changing to prove me that our impression of you all this while is wrong. I’ll still inform you what we’re (I am) doing.
But… why can they have these kinds of luxury?
I’m not angry or frustrated or whatsoever while typing this entry. I’m just curious, similar to when I’m curious about certain facts or formulas.