project partner

I really really dislike working in groups, especially when the partner is a freshman music major. She has "no time" even though I see her hanging out all over campus during the day. We have had this project for a month and I'm so very close to sending the professor an email explaining that I have done all the work.

The assignment is to do a video essay about a topic of our choosing. We all went through and discussed topics we'd be interested in and as people found similar topics they partnered up. My partner and I were the last 2 left and she wasn't interested in my topic (how society views breaking "the norm" as age applies. basically how if a 19 year old breaks the social norms its seen as kind of normal but if a 42 year old does its seen as rude). Her topic was gender roles which was interesting to me so I didn't mind using her topic. We had to narrow it down and it took 2 weeks to get her to agree to any sort of narrowing down of topic so we could create questions for interviews. Another week to arrange the questions and get the camera.

Well out of the 13 interviews we have, 8 of them are mine. She didn't even stick to the questions we wrote out. instead of asking "What are your views on gender roles" and "what is a gender role", she asks "what is feminine? what is masculine?" They are similar and feminine and masculine are part of a gender role but they are NOT the same thing! on top of that, the camera moves so much it makes you sea sick to watch and they person being interviewed is barely in the view of the camera! even though i offered her the camera stand. she biases them in every way possible by using terms like "genderfuck" and "screwed up". im not sure how much we can use from her interviews because they arent anything near what we agreed upon.

now, finally, on a friday we were supposed to meet to do edits and add music so this can all be done monday (hopefully) or wednesday (due). i find out that the cord she was supposed to get wednesday.... she still doesnt have. its a 5 minute process to get. so 10 min before my class i run to the lab to get the cord before it closes than run to class and plug the camera into the firewire, only to find out its for a Mac. I have a Dell. so i now cant use the cable. its 2pm on a friday. i get out of class at 3 and wont have time to get the cable and everything onto my computer in time to turn in the cable by the time the offices close (we cant keep them over the weekend).

I take responsibility for the fact that we should have started this earlier and I should have been harder on her about picking a topic and getting it done. i should have asked the professor if i could do this alone. I should have talked to the girl earlier about getting this done early. but i got all my interviews done in 6 hours. all the equipment is taken out in my name because she refused to go get it. and now she wont do editing because she "isn't good with technology". i really want to tell her to fuck off.