#ProjectDrama โ ๏ธ: So, here’s the tea โ๏ธ – I was stuck in a group project from hell ๐ with 4 other students. We had this murderously tough case to crack, and my group mates were as useful as a chocolate teapot ๐ซ. They ghosted me whenever I asked to meet up, and when I finally did all the heavy lifting, they had the audacity to ask me to do their part too ๐คฏ. So, on presentation day, I strutted in like a boss ๐, aced the presentation, got full marks, and even impressed the professor ๐. But now, my group mates are coming at me like a pack of wild hyenas ๐ฆ, calling me names and crying over failing. Am I the bad guy here? Your thoughts? ๐ญ๐ #HelpMeOut #TheOneManShow #GroupProjectWoes #WheresTheJustice
They had multiple chances to work on this and failed that their fault. By the way I hated group projects in grad school I understand why we had to do them but they were way more stressful than doing them on your own(at least for me).
NTA- good for you standing up for yourself. You did all the work when you had other things to do. Sounds like youโre in some type of medical program, theyโre not going to be very good practitioners if they โdonโt understand the caseโ
You explained to the teacher, the teacher took your side. Of course theyโre mad. They expected you to be a dormat so they could get out of a hard assignment.
NTA, they contributed absolutely nothing and expected to get a share of the credit? You did right and good that the professor actually understood and stood on your side.
If it’s not important enough to do the work then you don’t deserve the credit. NTA
NTA, you know this already. Since I presume this is medical school, you just filtered out 4 potential doctors who shouldn’t be allowed to practice, thus saving lives. Good for you!
> the case is too hard please do my part
NTA – Yeah sorry doesn’t work like that folks. Can’t claim credit for work someone else has done or cry foul after because you noped out when the going got tough.
This is the classic example of why group assignments are hated.
They actively ignored you and chose not to ask for help from the other group members or the professor for that matter?!
Congratulations on your achievement- you worked under pressure and successfully completed the assignment. NTAย
NTA you did all the work and tried to contact them many times and probably even wound have helped them. They donโt get to piggyback off your hard work because they refused to do their part.
NTA, save me from group projects. I ended up doing so many on my own rather than trust the people that started working on it two days before it was due.
NTA!! Good for you for standing up for yourself ๐ซถ๐ฝ
NTA, they made their decisions and now they get to deal with the consequences of them. Congratulations on your good work being recognized and rewarded.
NTA – you did the right thing, you let the professor know that your “group” actively did not participate. Oh well, if that that classmate loses her scholarship, maybe she should do the work to actually earn it?
Group projects are the worst; I’m really grateful the handful of times I had them in college that my group worked really well together and produced quality work. You tried to lead, you tried to guide the rest of your group and they were not interested, assuming they’d get a good grade by piggybacking. Oh well – FAFO.
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You did the right thing. You’ve actively communicated with them to send their parts/reports but none of them did. They deserve the consequence. A team is not a one-man army
NTA at all! Well done on achieving this on your own! You worked hard, you reached out to others multiple times to no avail, you finished the project by yourself and presented it by yourself. Their suffering/losing scholarship is 100% on them and not you. Enjoy your victory and let that be a lesson for them.
On the condition everything is documented and was shown to the professor and not just wanting all the credit, NTA.
Group assignments are hard in general but if everyone isn’t going to work, not everyone should get credit.
NTA, but you already knew that.
Now on to how to navigate their resentment/jealousy/whatever negative feelings they may have against you: I would say mostly ignore them. From the look of it, they are already not part of your friends group, so no big deal.
But keep a folder with all screenshot conversations showing you solicited them and that they either didn’t respond or tried to jump all the work on you.
If they start rumors or badmouth you, you could then quickly rectify the narrative before it gets too big.
NTA – you did exactly what should be done in this situation. What most students don’t realize is that most work is group work. After graduation, it’s usually called teams ;} Meantime, this situation also lets you and other students in your class know who to avoid for future group projects – and there will be more!
Hmmm, Iโm getting a โand then everyone applaudedโ vibe from this one
Your professor dealt with this correctly. Glad she was able to see who does the work, and who doesn’t.
NTA. Why should you carry four other people through the assignment? Congratulations on your success. The professor knows who they can rely on now to perform.
Professor should have saidย
“Sure, OP can do their presentation, then the remaining 3 can do theirs”ย
And just watch them flail as they don’t know the materialย
NTA – How’d this person even get a scholarship without realizing that you actually have to do schoolwork to keep it. If they lose it for this reason, they didn’t deserve it in the first place. Everyone in your group besides you FAFO. Good for you for actually doing the work your supposed to.
Nope Nta, OP you did all the work, all the research, you proposed MANY times to meet up they deliberately ignored you. And for the girl with the scholarship not to be mean but she is responsible to make sure she gets the grades in order to still have access to it.ย
100% NTA
Fair warning though, if this wasn’t the final time you’re working together, watch your back. At least one of them will try and get their own back so you need to be hyper vigilant for anything you’re assigned or need to complete. This includes group projects without them as you don’t know who their friends are that they can call a favour from.
You ultimately did the right thing but unfortunately that doesn’t mean you’ll now have an easier time of things.
What you learn from group projects is not how to work together – it is how to build a thicker skin against lazy, raging entitlement. NTA.
NTA.
That said, to the extent group projects are meant to teach how to work with and motivate a group (something important in any career field), you should’ve been at least dinged for not motivating group participation.
NTA by any means. Just got a similar case with my niece, we helped her orienting a project for class, helping her with some researching and stuff while her partner would reply to her texts “it’s still ages until deadline” (mind you, 3 weeks!).
So she delivered the project without his name on it. At least, he had the decency of not showing up at the presentation haha
Nope NTA! They chose to let you do everything on your own, so why should they get the grade when they didnโt help? Good for you for letting the professor know the situation. Even better for the professor standing up for you
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Good that you didn’t include their names and good that the teacher only let you present.
Congratulations on the good presentation!
I don’t even have anything to say about the other students. They didn’t do shit so they don’t deserve the tiniest bit of credit.
NTA. You gave them every chance to participate. If you’re going to be a total worthless group partner and contribute nothing, at least don’t get mad when the person that did everything is the only one to get credit. I’d report them to the dean or whoever for harassing you about it.
NTA – you put the name(s) of the people who did the work. they didnโt do the work, therefore their names arenโt on it. simple as that!
NTA, been there, done that. Like I said to them, if you wanted a mark you should have fucking turned up to a session. The rest of us did the work, and none of us wanted to carry you.
Lazy entitled pricks like them deserve to fail. Maybe that’s the short, sharp shock they need to wake up and stop expecting everyone else to be a mummy to them.
When I was in grad school (M.Ed – Curriculum & Instruction; this took place in 2009), I was part of a group project for an educational psychology class. The five of us divided our topic, coordinated sequencing in the final presentation (scheduled to take an hour), and agreed to work independently with a meet-up progress check a week before the presentation.
One group member didn’t show up to that; the other four of us had well-researched and engaging multimedia presentations on our portions of the topic.
On the presentation day, group member number five closed the show with a rambling, nonsense diatribe with no multimedia presentation and no cited sources. He sat on a stool and free associated with occasional glances at a yellow legal pad full of “notes”.
When our grades came back, the four of us who worked and coordinated all had 125% and number five failed the course. Like in your situation, group members not doing their share is obvious to people who do this for a living.
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Nta- beautiful job!! Group projects are the absolute worst. Best wishes
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Good for you!
NTA mate. They gambled, they lost, whatever.
Nice work on your part though, congrats
NTA. This is a learning experience for them. Whether they know it or not. You snooze, you lose. Good for you.
Nta! Out of curiosity, which neurological condition did you study?
I got diagnosed with FND at 16 so this stuff intrigues me haha
God, had a teammate who decided to do nothing, didn’t even turn up to the presentation. Then another guy who was in charge of design, last minute, decided to just remove our parts because he didn’t like it. He proceeded to make 50% of it dedicated to low effort work that he did.
I’d understand if the work the team put forward was subpar, but it was way better than what he did and his work even had multiple mistakes. And he had the audacity to say he did the most work when no, all he did was follow a very basic design with a horrendous colour scheme and replace our hardwork with research that took him 5 minutes at most.
To top it off, he wanted to give the guy who did absolutely nothing some marks because its a hassle to tell the professor he did nothing and he is a “sweetheart”, they didn’t even know eachother outside of our group.
Group work is stupid and should not be an assessed piece of work simply because your partners may just screw you to do as they wish.
Nope NTA.
You gave them plenty of chances. They thought they could play you like a patsy and failed. FAFO.
I had to do the same thing in a theology course one time. (And also, I wasn’t gonna lie to a priest LOL)
When I was a TA there was a group project with assigned teams and I recall one project coming in with all the names and for the fifth name it said โguy we canโt remember who never showed upโ ๐.
Being a student myself, I happily listened to groups complain about things like this and absolutely failed the non-participants. What do they expect?!
NTA If the want the credit, they actually have to put the work in, and considering from what I read this seems to be something to do with medicine, the fact that these lazy idiots want to get full credit without contributing one iota is ESPECIALLY concerning. What happens when they pass by skating on through and relying on everyone else to do the work? I’ll tell you the poor idiots these people are meant to be treating will suffer
You did the work.
Feel proud that you did tbe work as required.
The trash will take itself out, and they did this all by themselves.
NTA. Could have been fun to not share it ahead of time with the other members and let one of them try to present it. They wouldnโt be able to, because they didnโt do the work or even attempt to be a contributor.
NTA. These grasshoppers need to learn from the ants.
Want to keep your scholarship, do the work. Donโt want to fail, do the work. NTA. Good on you for standing up for yourself and facilitating their appropriate karma.
NTA. Their problem, not yours.