A project that requires you to work with your peers - intended to simulate the 'real world' where you work with other people on a day-to-day basis - it does this rather well, because like the 'real world' the bulk of the group will end up freeloading off of the work of the more responsible individuals (usually you).

The safeguarding of Earth and other worlds from biological cross-contamination (i.e. billionaires with too much time on their hands).

Also known as “planetary protection.” Planetary protection / quarantine “reflects both the unknown nature of the space environment and the desire of the scientific community to preserve the pristine nature of celestial bodies until they can be studied in detail.”

There are two types of interplanetary contamination. Forward contamination is the transfer of viable organisms from Earth to another celestial body. Back contamination is the transfer of extraterrestrial organisms, if such exist, back to the Earth's biosphere.

quite possibly the most idiotic educational device, created by hyper-ego professors whose sole existence on earth is to make you meet people in the library

A social experiment done by schools that almost always ends the same. It'll be one of 2 things. A cruel torture that'll give you a horrible realisation about the world, that you can end up doing all the work and someone else can take half the credit. Or it gives you a week to relax, showing you that you can sit on your arse doing fuck all while someone else works their arse off doing your work for you, and you still get half the credit!

While sometimes people do do equal work for equal credits, it's exceptionally rare.

Something teachers do to ruin your life.
Usually getting paired with idiots can also double it.

A litmus test to see if a person is nice or an a--hole.

a project that doesn't teach you how to work with others, but teaches you patience and how to deal with morons.