The most difficult part of group work for me is simply getting things done on time and meeting my own standards. Collaborating with other people is difficult because it becomes nearly impossible to establish a decent flow to a piece of work because conflicting voices need to come together and meet in a somewhat ugly amalgamation before they can be edited and polished. This is difficult for me personally because I'm the kind of writer who needs a direction from the beginning and can't simply stumble upon one as I go.
As was mentioned in class, I am also one of the students who currently feels a little swamped by work. I blame myself for much of the delay in my group's progress on the project simply because I've had so much other work to do and I haven't been able to successfully balance it. Just last night I spent the majority of my time composing a final essay for one of my other classes that my professor sprung on us at the last minute. because of this, I was unable to complete work for other classes, this one included, because I needed to complete said paper. Even now with that being done, the end of the semester is fast approaching and with the collaborative projects due Monday it seems as if everything is reaching a hectic climax. I don't know right now if my group will finish our paper completely by Monday and if we do what the quality of it will be. My hope is that I can dedicate much of my weekend to finishing the assignment and editing it before class time when we have to present it