'I passed with honors [...] the rest all failed': Student tricks other members of her group project into failing class

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Sep 16, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

Group projects serve as an important lesson to students to prepare them for the rest of their working lives. That lesson is that you can never, and should never, rely on any of your working peers for support and that you'll—more than likely—end up doing their work for them. After all, isn't that the biggest takeaway that everyone has from these experiences? Sure, it's not like you'll ever hear about or remember the time that you had a group that worked perfectly together, but you'll always remember that group where you had to do the entire thing. So, maybe it's a bias of our memories that jades our perception of group projects so considerably, earning them their infamy in online rhetoric. 

This student shared her experience of being saddled with an entire group of useless members, five whole other people who couldn't be bothered even to read her messages attempting to organize the group. It was only after she gave up and turned the project in herself that they could even be bothered to message her, hounding her about updates on the project that she had, unbeknownst to them, already submitted. This resulted in these members not getting credit for the project, causing all but one to fail the course.

See her story as she shared it online below, along with select reactions from the original thread.

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    Font - Posted by u/Natural_Crocodile Four groupmates failed a class thanks to me, and i cannot be happier As the title says, I (F21) have never been happier. Im in college rght now. On my last term we (a group of 6 people), had to do a project for the entire semester. Nobody ever replied to my texts and they would always meet the day before the due date. I always asked them if we could meet on weekends since i can't make it to that time they were saying due to classes.
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    Font - They did the project first, then another guy alone made it by himself, and on the last one we were supposed to meet up and since it was on exams i could actually meet with them, however again, nobody replied my texts, and kept changing the time we were supposed to meet until night time when someone did it by themselves.
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    Font - The project obviously failed, and since that happened we had to do a video explaining while all the projects failed or survived, I said to one of my groupmates (and here comes the part where i really regreted it) that i could write the explanation of why it failed, whoever someone would need to record themselves talking and another one add everything up (The videos, pictures and the recording of all the projects).
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    Font - I really dont know what happened but magically the entire group understood that I would to EVERYTHING. I argued since it was a huge amount of work and i would need help, however after that nobody ever replied to me but only to remind me that i had to do everything and i had to show what i did.
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    Font - I did my supposed part, and sent them a huge text explaining why all the projects failed. I asked then how it was, who will record themselves, and told them to send the missing videos and pictures of the previous projects, this was a week prior to uploading the entire video.
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    Font - Not did they not reply, nor even open the group, but they were mad enough to then ask me how was the video doing and making me to send them the video of everything ASAP. The days went by and by seeing that nobody will reply to what i did or offer some help, i decided to do it by myself and give them what they desserve. I deleted the message of the text, recorded and tried to do my best with what i had, nobody even opened the group that week.
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    Font - Moving forward, it's Sunday morning and the due date is at 23.59, I gently send the video to the teacher and explain the entire situation to her. The teacher (which i really respect for what she did) then replies apologizing for the bad time this caused, and proceeds to tell me that they wont be evaluated with the video, only with the projects alone.
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    Font - I's Sunday 23.00, suddenly the entire group appears asking where the heck is the video complaining and cQ. I wait till 23.58 to tell them that the video got sent this morning, and maybe next time you all should at least read the do group and proceed to leave. I got texts biag me from this dude that literally did nothing, i then tell them in the nicest way posible that nobody here is mad, sorry if you took it that way.
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    Font - I passed with honors, next term came and I'm only seeing one of my previous groupmates with me in this class (It's a requirement for you to pass the previous subject before going on to this one), the rest all failed and I've never felt so satisfied.
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    Font - WorkThrowaway619 8 hr. ago I was a Computer Science major in college, but I had to take a few communications courses as a part of my degree. Those involved tons of group work, so I've had to deal with this on a smaller scale than people who were comm majors. I was never that petty, but I do remember one time a group member and I (the one member who was as hard of a worker as I) ended up writing the whole paper by ourselves, changed up the presentation (aka fixed it), and didn't tell the o
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    Font - T Par AnnoyedVelociraptor 7 hr. ago I hate group projects. I always ended up doing all the work. When you inquire teachers about why they set up group projects they respond how it helps you train for a real job. Except at my job I have 3 team members, a team lead, and if someone isn't pulling their weight you escalate it. You cannot have team dynamics without accountability. Vote Reply Share
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    Font - Southern-Interest347 this was a difficult read Vote 8 hr. ago Vote Reply Share Range-Shoddy +38 hr. ago I have no idea what they're talking about. Reply Share
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