sadsacrum
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The truth in this! We are about halfway through the quarter now and I have more or less distanced myself from my group. But I still have a couple people who regularly text me asking me to walk them through old concepts when we are already onto a new chapter (I’m sure I won’t need to tell any of you how fast-paced these classes are. 1 week ago= old material). It’s not that I mind helping other kids once in awhile, but when it’s consistent and I have new material to plow through every week- I really don’t have the time to be making sure you understand what’s going on. That and I’m not getting anything out of the interaction. Last week, a girl in my group called me crying bc she couldn’t figure out a concept. I helped her out bc I felt bad that she was so upset but also had my eye on the clock bc it was eating away at my study time. Normally, I would’ve just said no but didn’t want to piss anyone off so early into the program. Plus one particular prof absolutely makes a HUGE deal about how important these groups are/to help your group members and I don’t want to piss her off either and not be seen as a team player. Wish we could all just be responsible for ourselves. I mean- I get that they want to prepare us for a team building workplace but this is school- not a real job
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Not sure what to do at this point, but I really dislike people in my cohort. We've all been told time and time again that a solid study group is what you need to succeed and I just haven't been able to find a group that I click with. Either nobody does any substantial amount of work/ can't keep track of what assignments are due and wants everything explained to them- contributing absolutely nothing. Or just want to sit around and talk about non class-related topics in the precious little time we have. Or we will all agree to have a certain amount of reading done before a meeting and then no one will have done the assignment other than me. Fortunately, I've received 100% on every test/assignment in my classes so far so am doing OK without study buddies. But I'm worried about what's to come after first quarter. Anyone run into a similar problem?! Advice?!
