Teamwork sucks

It really isn't for everybody. Colleges should stop promoting it now, its damn irritating. My first year was fantastic. Lovely projects, all solo assignments... my creativity was overflowing.
Ever since the second year I have been having a horrid dry spell.

Why teamwork sucks?

1. Credit is shared by the team. So basically, 'my' idea becomes 'our' idea, 'my' posters become 'our' posters, and 'my' grades become 'our' grades.

2. When you work alone, and you screw up, you have yourself to blame...but when you are working in the team, it's always the other person's fault....Always. Na...tut tut..no arguing with me...its ALWAYS their fault.

3. For a team to function properly, you need good teammates. That doesn't work when the members can't either speak properly, or are too lazy or too stupid or just plain 'shut-up-or-I-will-smash-you-with-your-laptop' annoying.

4. Specifically for me, teamwork will suck because I have this particular frame of mind...I am right. Whatever the argument may be, I am right. Its not an ego issue. Simply because I cared enough to argue means I know what I am talking about. Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered responding in the first place. I am not always right of course, say for instance, if a professor asks me to do something in a specific way, but I take a different approach...he could tell me I was wrong and I will accept it as long has he gives a valid reason.
So basically, in teamwork, when I pick the topic, I am justified in choosing it because that is either a 'hot' topic, or an 'interesting' topic or something the audience will connect to. Quite simply put, if I say XYZ is our topic...thats it. End of discussion.
But to be fair I do give everyone a chance to give out their ideas too. One chance to entice my mind to whatever issue they may have chosen. My mind has rarely switched over to other people's topics.


5. Similar to the 'I am right' issue, there is also the 'I am good' issue. Again, not an ego thing, this simply means, "Look at my work, that's pretty good." At this point, criticism isn't allowed, by anyone, even the professor. Once more for clarification, this isn't an ego driven statement. Do you know how much I criticize and dislike my own work. Nearly every piece of my submission is dissected into various points, and each point getting more vague than the next...
I don't like the font type, its too small and irregular.
The background image could use some more post processing.
This color sucks
This design sucks
I need some "oomph" in this design.

All in all, I always come up with something that meets or exceeds the professor's expectations...but never mine. So in the rare event that the latter does ring true, I do stand up proudly and tell the world, "wow..I am good".



In general, people should figure out by now, that when I actually bother giving a crap about something, I know what I am talking about.
Why have you never seen me talk about America's war with Iraq or Obama being president or the Great Recession all around the globe? Simple...I don't care. It doesn't interest me, and as such I have no clue about what's going on, which is just how I prefer it.
I still hear people trying to lure me into discussing the financial collapse. Pfft...
checklist.
1. Do I have food on my table? Yes.
2. Do I have clothes? Yes
3. Do I have a bed to sleep in? Yes.
4. Do I have a good bathroom? Yes
All right then, not interested in the global financial problems. Watching the white tiger at the zoo for 4 hours is much more stimulating than listening to the global news. Going to the library and once again scanning the entire arts and film section in hopes of seeing a new book is more interesting...cataloging all my pictures into various categories is more interesting.. you get my point?

I thought of one more :P
"Hours of pondering whether to have tomato soup or sweet corn soup is more interesting than listening to global issues"


For those who are wondering, yes I am a misanthrope. Not a cynic, a Misanthrope. There is a difference. Cynics hate everyone. Misanthropes will care if they like the person. They hate everyone in general except for the people they will choose to hang out with.

Ooook, topic deviated again...I should write more often, seeing four topics in my head that kinda clashed together over here.
Back to the teamwork issue.
Luckily this semester almost all subjects have solo final projects. Unluckily, ALMOST all subjects solo final projects.

There is this academic research nonsense that needs to be done in a team. Never mind that the brief itself didn't make sense when it stated that reports will be handed and graded out individually, which basically means that you just sit together, "share information and sources" together, write your own report and get different grades. Uhhh...quick question, how does this promote teamwork, when its painfully obvious that anyone with even half a brain isn't going to reveal the right sources to his so called 'teammate' in hopes that its the perfect article for adding the 'oomph' to his own report?
Maybe I am the only one who thinks this way... could be possible I guess. Could be the reason why I have been singled out and have no one to work with, which is going to cause a lot of headache tomorrow...I have already packed 4 crocins in my bag.

But honestly, do you really think "working together" is going to solve the problem? Well then go ahead, but eventually there will come a point when your partner will think, "ahh...the perfect info, I must not reveal, this will gain me more credit". If he doesn't, then it doesn't make him a 'nice person'...no...it makes him a moron and he should be plucked out from the gene pool.

Wake up and smell the coffee, its a competitive world. Unless your partner is biologically related to you, if there is a chance to get a better edge, you do it, or else they will. Everyone craves recognition. Even the most solitary loners wouldn't mind a little recognition.

Sigh... its painful to even think of going up to a professor and basically telling him, "I don't have a team, no one is picking me" and it will be damn near humiliating if he picks a team for me.
Am hoping I can convince him that I can do this subject on my own, though its probably not going to work. Still, I have a reasonably great controversial topic which I won't reveal here... lets just say in the end I plan to explain to my audience as to how Singapore is fooling the public into thinking this is a 'free' country.

I was always attracted towards speaking on topics that are forbidden to be spoken of.

And now we come to an abrupt end, because I am tired of whining endlessly about this. I have to begin my report proposal