[Quiet Man Cometh]

I'm with Zerook on this in that, as annoying as they can be, they are relevant to life after college and one may as well get the practice in, especially in collge before one's livelihood might be risked by doing a crummy job.

In high school I recall that they were a paint except when I worked alone, which was often since my shcedual and out of school obligations were so wonky it made it hard for me. In college though I had a much easier time of it since most people actually care about getting good grades seeing as one needs to pay to be there.

We've usually just delegated and used email rather than actually meeting up, beyond perhaps some in class meeting times. It usually amounted to "you, do this. You, do that, I can do this. Job done." I could make a powerpoint presentation in my sleep so often I would take the info people would send me and put it together, or in some cases, put actual slides together. It worked out well because at one point I overslept on the day of the presentation and ran into class just as my group was presenting. Because they already had my slides and info they could keep going without me and I squeaked in at the end for questions. My prof was forgiving about that (possibly because I was noticably out of breath and coughing when I arrived), and my group didn't seem to mind too much since my slides were easy to read with enough (and yes, I appologized profusely).