Top 10 School Group Project Member Stereotypes
School projects, ugh, everyone has to do them at some point. You either love them or hate them.
Personally, I'm in the hate category, but there are always people in your group who can really grind your gears sometimes.
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Guy who does nothing
You know this person. He barely shows up and barely participates in class at all. He just so happens to be in your group and doesn't even bother making eye contact or any social interaction whatsoever. He has an F in the class yet he'll just so happen to get an A on the project because logic.
In a 4-person group, there will always be 3 who slap their names on the project but do none of the work.
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The introverts who don’t immediately partner up
You know these people. They're normally in the back of the class without any real friends in the class, so they're just stuck with whoever's left. Just luck of the draw.
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People who don’t know what they’re doing
Yeah, when these people are in your group, good luck because they won't do anything and need the teacher by their side at all times. That won't happen. Just have fun.
I never know what I'm doing. I just do whatever I think is correct and hope for the best.
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Person who does everything
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Person who does most of the project but is gone when you have to present
This person is the MVP of your team and yet misses the presentation because of a doctor's appointment, getting sick, or whatever. This means you're forced to wing it and hope for the best. In sports, this is the equivalent of LeBron James carrying your team to the finals but not playing in the Finals.
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The “group mom”
Had a guy like this in English class. Not class president, though. Just self-centered and couldn't handle criticism. He didn't do any actual work. Instead, he liked to boss us around and criticize our contributions because they were "not good enough for him." When we called him out for not doing any actual work, he was furious and started to blame us.
We told the teacher about this, and he ended up having to do a separate assignment. We got to work on our project without him! We got an A, and now he's somebody we joke about.
You know this girl who's class StuCo President. She has to make sure everyone has a job and stays on task at all times. She'll even go out of her way to create a group chat and set up a Starbucks date to work on it. She's the most passionate about the project and will dedicate her time to it.
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People on their phones during work time
This group doesn't use class time to work on stuff. Instead, they do it all outside of class and put it together the day of the presentations. It works, but it's very risky to pull off.
Basically most people in my class.
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The one guy who can’t be with his friends and gets stuck with all girls
Some call him lucky, but either way, the teacher is strict on groups of 3 or 4. There are more guy friends, so one guy has to take one for the team because there's a group that needs one more person.
Oof, this happens to me a lot because the teacher never trusts me with my friends.
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The group hopper
The socializer of the class. This person has friends in every other group and, instead of being with their own group, talks with their friends about weekend plans.
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The perfectionist
This person will stop at nothing to ensure the project is perfect. Every single word, sentence, picture, graph, etc., has to line up and be perfect. Anything less than a 99.9999% is unacceptable, and the project is a failure.
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The annoying kid who thinks he is smart but does no work
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The outcast
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The guy who disappears until the end of the project
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The people who do the opposite of what they're supposed to do
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The one who has "different ideas"
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The only nice one