College student refuses to let an entitled teammate cheat off his work on a group project after she ghosts them for 4 months: ‘[She] said I 'owe' her credit'

An entitled university student expected her team to pick up her slack on a group project worth 50% of their grade, but after she ghosted them for months, they refused to even include her name on the presentation.

Group projects are the worst. Although they prepare students to work together as a team, they also prepare young minds to learn to navigate freeloaders and try-hards. I suppose that means that group projects get college kids ready for the real world in a lot of ways, because out here in the adultsphere, there are more credit leeches than you'd think.

When I was in university, I had a lot of group projects, specifically because I studied Film and Media as a major. I know it sounds like a fake course where you only watch movies all day, but ultimately, it was an audiovisual version of Literature, Philosophy, and Art rolled up into one course. That meant that my group project teammates and I often butted heads, disagreeing in a variety of ways on the direction our project should go in the first place.

That leads, usually, to the director's role. Destined to be the bad guy, but keeping everyone else on track, the director of every group project is the one who creates the Google Docs, sets up meeting times, and ensures that everyone shows up to work on time or at least completes their portion of the project promptly. Without someone taking charge, things slip through the cracks, but having a powerful leader at the helm also pretty much guarantees that you're going to have at least one slacker in the group, one lowlife who refuses to work unless whipped into shape or shamed for their laziness. Creating unwanted anxiety over the project, slackers usually live scot-free, enjoying the perks of riding the coattails of everyone else in the group for the sake of their own grade.

However, once in a blue moon, students will rally against the slacker, refusing to let them garnish any credit from work they didn't do.

Like the college kids in this next story, who refused to even include the name of their third groupmate on a group project because she completely ghosted them for 4 months. Crawling back just days before the due date, she insisted she could put her "spin" on things, but the work was already done, the project already completed. She offered too little, too late, and for that, she may just have to retake the class. There's no waiting for your friends to bail you out if you burned the bridge between you. She was on her own, now.

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