AH, yes. I'm trying to find humour beneath being buried by many research projects. You know it's definitely crunch-time if you're a university kid and April is flirting around the corner. Having worked with many different groups before, I find, sometimes, it really is hard to communicate with some people -- especially in the storming and norming phases of the team process. Some people want instant gratification of it being done while they have absolutely no clue which direction the project is going; I have the tendency to step up as the leader/coordinator of the project when nobody else will. I would make sure everyone has every member's contact information; etc. Well, sometimes in life, no matter how hard you try to make the mission statement clear or try to get everyone to contribute fairly, you've got to work with what you have and make the best out of it. The challenge I always face is to not create any negative energy when expectations are not met, but rather work with it. After all, group projects is a mini-threshold into the "real world"; or so my dad would speak in cliches and metaphors.
Below is a comic I drew earlier this morning. Disclaimer: This is not a direct representation of any event/incident that happened in real life. Even if it were, it would be made fictional and be completely blown out of proportion for the sake of comic humour.
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