journal 12

I love working with partners. I think working together is good in so many different ways. I like how when we work in partners the work gets cut in half. I also really like that I get to socialize while still doing work. I think that working with a partner can be bad too though because sometimes one person ends up doing more work than the other, and they get credit for your work. This is a negative aspect of this but other than that I really do not have a problem with this. I like to work with partners because it takes off a lot of stress load and you can divide the work evenly and make it so that your partner has to do the stuff you do not want to do. i like it too because you can get a lot of creativity into the project because instead of just doing it with your ideas, you can combine your ideas with theirs to make it a very cool project. It also helps when you are stuck and can not think of anything else, or if you simply do not know the answer you can ask your partner and figure things out. It also is really fun because you can joke around the whole time while still getting your work done. I sometimes hate it though how the group project is also for a group grade. I hate this because a lot of times what can happen is one will not do their part, and they say they are. Then the due date comes in and their part is not done. Your grade suffers too because they did not do what they were suppose to do, even though you put all of your effort into your part, and they get credit for it too. I mean you could always go talk to your teacher about this, but a lot of times they will blow you off saying you need to do it for them then. That would make me mad if I spent countless hours working on a project while someone else sat at home and played video games, and got a really good grade. It's just not fair, but sometimes it's a risk I like to take.