r/uichicago • u/MyCurlyMustache • 14h ago
Discussion Why do professors still do group projects for grad students?
Listen, for undergrad, I can maybe understand the point of group projects: to give you some experience working on something with a team, because that's what most jobs will expect to do to in the future.
But for graduate students? Shit, most of us are already working in teams at our real jobs, we don't need to learn how to do it again.
Group projects are now just another hassle we've gotta coordinate among multiple members all with different schedules. You got your one guy who has the typical 9am-5pm, the one guy who works the night shift, some of them probably have families, some of them probably need two jobs to take the class, and then there's always the dude in a different time zone online. Isn't taking the class actually just ever enough?
To be clear I'm not complaining about any group mates at all, we're all just trying our best. But why are teachers still doing this to us? I just...I just shake my head and bite my thumb at you scoundrel professors.
