I love collaboration. It's why I love seminar classes and group projects. Being involved with other people and being introduced to new perspectives and growing from the experience is about the greatest thing ever.
Until you get stuck with that one student. You know who I'm talking about.
There's always the one student who cannot or will not work within a group. Either they just don't care enough to pull their weight (which, at the grad level, I would be truly surprised to see), or they just don't care enough to actually collaborate, instead going off and doing their own thing, leaving the group hoping that everyone else will be able to accommodate them later. It drives me completely up the wall when people are so self-absorbed that even in a situation like a group project in school, where it really can't be any more obvious how other people's fates are tied to your own, that they still blow shit off. This bothers me about people in general on every level though.
Typically, when stuck with these people in groups, I can take charge and figure out a way to make things work.
Right now though, the situation's a bit different.
This time, the student isn't intending to not "be part of the group". Language and cultural barriers stand between us and him. And I have no idea what to do about it.
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