i said this in the comments of another post but i think the point bears stating on its own: group projects in school fundamentally suck but they are part of the means by which traditional schooling prepares you for real life by teaching you essential soft skills you'll need to function in the adult world. no one ENJOYS doing group projects. i hated them as the designated "smart kid" who my peers knew i'd ultimately end up carrying them bc i would've rather done all the work than get a bad grade, so they all wanted to be in a group with me so they wouldn't have to do anything. but group projects are essential for teaching you how to have a job in the adult world, because all of my corporate and nonprofit experiences have amounted to "life is one large group project and one person is ALWAYS doing the work." this doesn't bother me so much bc i learned and internalized this lesson at 16 when i was sitting on my bedroom floor at 3am crying while hand-painting an oil portrait of joseph stalin on the USSR-themed monopoly board my group did for our final project for world history. if you somehow get to adulthood without ever having had the essential experience of being let down by your peers in collaborative teamwork-oriented settings enough to get used to it, that realization is gonna hit you like a freight train and make you INSUFFERABLE as a coworker!! but the school system is set up to teach you how to collaborate with others and work with people who might let you down or annoy you, and if you learn those lessons as a kid, you can just be like "oh, Fucking David needs his hand held to publish a single post to the company website, must be tuesday" and get over it. also in hindsight Soviet Monopoly was the funniest idea i've ever had. the gag was that if you did make it to the end, you lost all your money and properties anyway, and the chance cards were all things like "famine, lose a turn" and "uncle boris gets you a job as a high-ranking apparatchik, steal any two properties you want from anyone on the board". i could license that to turning point USA today and make a million bucks.
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