Today was our Yearbook edit day for this deadline. I have noticed that the other members of my group really did no work. I have also come to notice that I have been the one that has gotten the most accomplished outside of class. Today I stayed until 7:30, while the others left around 6:00. They left me with almost everything to do, and even while they were there, they weren't doing much. One of them had her friends come and they just talked and did homework the entire time.
This caused me to think about what makes me the person everybody depends on. I really don't know. Is it because of my work ethic? My leadership? The fact that they know I will not settle for anything less than excellence? It really isn't fair that they expected me to be able to do everything myself. I guess I kind of made it easy for them to have me do the work, the fact that they know that I am a major perfectionist. Maybe I was too willing to come in and do extra work. Maybe next time I will set more boundaries. I have to sleep on it.
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I think it's great that you're using your personal blog to journal; I've been using mine as a reflective academic journal as well. I understand how it feels to be the only person doing all the work; this is why I never enjoyed group projects in high school. Have you talked to your teacher and fellow yearbook scholars about this?
Ms. Kakos,
I have tried to talk about it with the people who I was working with, but they didn't listen. Then I tried telling our editor in chief, and she actually said that she noticed how much I was doing and how little everyone else was doing. She ended up changing deadline proceedure so that if people did not stay until all of their pages were in, they wouldn't get the points for that deadline. So there is some progress. I am still trying to work on it.
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