This was the worst. I had people I knew in class but generally I’ve always been considered one of the less important friends to people. So I would watch them all pair with someone they liked better.
I’m actually currently having a minor anxiety attack remembering this 🤦♂️
I’ll be your lab partner next time. I might overshare regarding progmetal, networks, the oxford comma, and server clusters, but that comes with the territory.
This happened to me every single time except once.
AP Chemistry, senior year of high school, I was in a class with a girl who was tall, blonde, and would go on to be one of our valedictorians. (We had 8 that year, don’t even ask me.) She was also literally prom queen one of the prior years. We were picking lab partners and it was understood that your partner would be your partner the whole year.
To this day I don’t know why she picked me, but we fucking crushed those labs.
Thank God this doesn’t happen to me anymore as an adult
I dreaded this not because I wouldn’t get picked and feel left out; but because group work always either became:
- Me doing all the work myself because my partner(s) fucked off
- Me not having any work to do and being bored out of my mind because my partner(s) took all the tasks and left me with nothing to do because they thought I would bring them down.
To this day, I still prefer to work alone.
It got to the point I just started asking the teacher if I could just be my own group.
Better to single yourself out than let everyone do it for you.
They’d all get pissed when I won review games though.
That’s how you get paired with the teacher.
It’s how I got paired into a group of three. I’ve never even heard of anyone getting paired with the teacher.
