Group Projects

It was such a mundane thing, a group assignment. Not anyones favorite thing but we were college students and we could figure it out. I was never much of a team player but we divided up the jobs according to skill and I jumped on editing as well as my part of the paper. We had two days until it was time to submit and I was sick, very sick. I'd even dropped one of my two classes so I could concentrate on the one I had a chance of finishing. Still I told all of them I would get it done and I did. I took that jumbled mess, that collection of random papers and turned it into one cohesive report. A very hard two days of work repairing glaring problems with grammar, spelling and redundencies. In the end it was something to be proud of. I even finished with hours to spare. Then I went to turn in my (our) masterpiece. That's when I found out our group leader had submitted it already, the previous day. I spent two days working on getting a good grade and she couldn't be bothered to send me an e-mail that it wasn't necessary. To top it all off her editing was awful, she left in all the mistakes I had so painstakingly fixed. I think that was the exact moment I lost all faith in humanity. Realizing the fact that I could work hard while powering through a terrible illness and my effort was meaningless because of who my leader was.