Meetings in group projects

I remembered that back to the college, we usually meet with group members for our project, and I guess you had the similar experiences. However, sometimes it became simply a time waste because some didn’t do anything while pretendent they did. In my opinion, while it usually helps us to track our paces, we need to really focus on the task itself rather than slides for presentation. Also, instead of making long but pointless meetings, I’d prefer the power meeting that saves time for further developments. As an engineer, I need to deal with lots of meeting. How about you?