Now listen to two students discussing the assignment.
Woman:I don't know about this.
Man:Why not? Sounds okay to me.
Woman:Thing is: depending on someone else makes me nervous. My roommate had to do a project like this and the other girl didn't show up to meetings, didn't do any research. My roommate had to do everything herself.
Man:That's a drag. I guess if your partner is irresponsible, you are out of luck.
Woman:Exactly. It hurt her grade. I don't want the same thing to happen to me. Right now I'm more concerned with getting a good grade even though I know that's not the lesson the professor has in mind.
Man:Still, it'll be good to listen to everyone's stuff.
Woman:Well, I don't know. I mean, at the end of the semester, people are focused on studying for exams.
Man:Yeah.
Woman:Who has time to put something like this together when they're busy studying?
Man:True.
Woman:I can't imagine anyone will be able to really do a good job with it. And everyone will be so preoccupied by then that they probably won't listen anyway. I think the professor's gonna be disappointed. And students...well...we'll all just be frustrated by the whole thing.