'He had plenty of chances': College student gets ghosted by their partner on a group project, does all the work, and only credits themselves on the final paper; slacker gets the 0% grade they deserve

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 30, 2025 9:00 PM EDT

Group projects in college are supposed to teach students how to work in a team with another person, but what they truly teach us is to resent the slackers/freeloaders of the group. Funnily enough, this is a life lesson that will follow us forevermore in the workplace, with family, and in our friendships, but this college student wasn't ready for a crash course in loser partners for their first 2-person project. 

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  • After getting assigned randomly to another student in the class, this hardworking student was determined to follow the prompt and work together on their project. However, the slacker had other ideas—and clearly other, more important plans—that kept them from showing up to any group project meetings, contributing anything to the course, and even texting back when their partner became concerned. Fine, you don't want to help on this project? It's not going to do itself, so this diligent student did the project themselves, crediting their solo effort on the final product right in front of the professor. 

    Sometimes, snitching on someone is absolutely the right thing to do...

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    He skipped the group project meetings. So I submitted it with only my name.
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    It was a two-person project. I reached out right away to plan things, and he didn't answer. I figured maybe he was just slow to respond, so I followed up again. And again. Still nothing. No replies.
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    No shows. Not even a "hey, I've been swamped." Just silence. So I kept going without him. Did the research. Built the slides. Wrote the paper. Proofread. Edited.
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    Honestly, I was proud of the work when it was done. The night before the deadline, I stared at the title page for a minute. His name was still there. And I thought he didn't do a single thing. Why
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    should he get credit for work he didn't care about? So I deleted his name. Submitted the file. Closed my laptop and went to bed. He
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    emailed me after the grade posted, asking why his name wasn't there. I didn't bother answering. He had plenty of chances. I just stopped waiting.
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    Tremenda-Carucha ⚫ I swear I've seen this exact scenario play out in countless group projects. It's maddening how some people can just disappear and expect their name to still be on the finished product! You did what needed doing, OP.
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    doctor_rocksoo ⚫ I wish more people would do this, or rat their partners out when they're slacking.
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    OldMetalHead The audacity! I think ghosting him back was even better than tearing him a new one would have been.
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    ArgonianCandidate ⚫ This exact thing happened to me only it was a group with 3 other people. I submitted the assignment with a note saying no one else contributed, no one showed up to any meetings, and no one helped write any parts of the paper. I received an A and the three others got zero's. So satisfying.
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    Fluid-Wrongdoer6120 ⚫ Had this exact thing happen but with a group project of like 4 or 5 ppl. One guy never lifted a finger, never showed up to group meetings. His name was left off and we all gave him a shpeer evaluation.
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    The guy starts frantically emailing and texting all of us after he got his grade, asking happened. What did he THINK was going to happen?!
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    BackcastSue ⚫ "Why isn't my name on the project?" "Well, tell me what you contributed, and I'll ammend it." "I guess it stays as is, then."
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    GlitterssGoddess OP Right? I'm done giving free grades to ghosts. Expended1 "You ghosted me so hard I thought you were dead."
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