Journal #12

Working with a partner can be very fun, or it can be very complicated. It is often enjoyable when the other person will work together with you and will help do some of the work. It is nice to have partners that are willing to take part of the workload in comparison to partners that will not. Partners that will not help take part of the work can be very annoying because it just means that one would have to do all of the work, and often one's partner gets the exact same grade, even though they did not do anything at all. That is annoying, because they did not earn their grade and it is not fair to the partner that did all the work. Sometimes it is fun to have a partner that is a friend, even if they do not do as much work as they should, because a person is more willing to forgive a friend for not doing as much in comparison to forgiving an enemy. Partners should be willing to help do work, even if they have the time to mess around, because it is better to just get all of the work done while the group can. That way, the group will not have to send the homework home with only one of the partners that will have to do everything that the group had not done in class. It is also fun to have a group of people work together while they are all doing the same thing, because they can divide all the work up and get it done faster. It is nice to do things that way, because that way people will still learn what they need to know, but they will also have the chance to finish their homework a lot faster. There are many good and bad things that can come from having partners on a project, worksheet, or packet, but it all depends on how the partners work together and how hard they work.