No grades?

So for our first draft of our long articles, our professor is not giving us grades. She says this is a test to see if our research and theories are true--Do students do better when they aren't under the pressure of grades?

My theory is no, at least not for me personally, and definitely not at this stage in the game. I'm a second semester senior, and although grades do matter to me right now, I'm much more focused on what I already have on my resume so that I can show that to employers...not that I don't care about my grade on this first draft, I do. But the fact that we aren't getting one doesn't change my attitude towards it. In fact, it will probably just make me more worried about the next two drafts because they'll be worth more in the long run.

As far as how our article is going for group 3? A little slow. I've sort of been assigned as the writer, and all the other group members are currently gathering all the information, so I'm in the twilight zone as to where I stand personally in the project. I need to wait to gather ALL the info so I can write a superb article. That's why in class we had such a lame lead....because we didn't do all the work yet.

I have a lot of work to do this weekend. Sometimes if I sit down and think about all the work I have to do, I begin to panic. That's why I usually take things one step at a time...