Basically, the problem persisted the whole semester. The two good members of the team did not have a lot of formal authority, and appeals to the instructor to grade the members of the team separately were rejected. This caused a lot of tension within the team, and we considered just working on the projects the two of us, because relying on the others was causing problems. They were late and their work was sub-standard, leaving us to scramble to clean things up, with little time to spare.

Other students influenced my views on the subject. The first thing that I realized when talking to other classmates is that our group was notably unlucky, that most of the students in the course had a high level of motivation. This actually strengthened my resolve to transcend the situation. Without formal authority, we simply did the best work we could and made sure...
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