I know exactly what you’re talking about regarding the “group” project reality in school. I drove around one night in high school, frantically looking for my group members to do a project that was due the next day because none of them were answering their phones. Turns out, they were driving around filming random stuff to use for our presentation. I know this because while I was filling up my car with gas, they drove circles around me at the gas station, filming me and laughing at how pissed I was that they were just goofing around instead of working on the project. (After all, it’s just for a grade that could possibly affect my GETTING INTO COLLEGE!) I was never able to meet up with them, which was great, because we had a presentation the next day in class. At school, I asked them if we could get together at lunch and edit the video while going over what we were going to talk about the next period. They weren’t up for that (too much effort) and they told me they had already edited the video. I ended up being the main presenter and had to explain how a 5 minute video (which I was seeing for the first time) made up of a car chase on the streets of Shoreline, random footage of people hanging out in a car, and me swearing at the camera as it drove around me in circles, sufficiently explained Existentialism.

I think we got a ‘C’… maybe a ‘B-’. We should have failed, but my teacher was probably just impressed that we did anything at all. Again, an entitled generation.