Group Therapy: a group project survival guide

You're in a biology lab and you're told to choose lab partners.  You don't know anyone.  How do you go about choosing?  Ask questions.  What is important to you?  A great grade at the end of the term?    Are you serious about learning the lab at hand?  Then you want to find those folks who want the same thing.  Remember you're going to be with these guys all term long, with a major project due at the end of the term.  You want to be on the TEAM that is a success at the end of the term.