So as an MBA candidate (doesn't that sound better than lowly grad student who hates her life?) I have to work a lot in groups. A LOT. Which can be good, when other people know more about what we are doing than I do. It can be bad when I know more about what we are doing than other people. It can be good when people volunteer to do more work, leaving me with less, and it can be bad when I have to do more work than other people. For the most part, however, it's a pretty even workload to share. The class that I am currently taking has a pretty intensive paper due July 5. 20 Pages on our economy's ups and downs in comparison with another economy's. It's more specific than that, but you get the idea. And I am in a group with a kid who wants to be the leader of the group, which is fine with me. But it's taking me a lot of time to get him to realize that groups are not dictatorships. He basically decided we are writing X, Y, and Z, and that is all there is too it. Which would be fine if X, Y, and Z, was what the professor wanted us to write! Which, alas, is not the case. So clearly we can't do X, Y, and Z, we are going to have to do something else. He's not letting go if it though. I just want to scream, WE CANNOT DO X, Y, AND Z, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PICK SOMETHING ELSE!!! I don't even care what he picks, as long as it is something else!