Even though it is primarily thought that any learning institution is there to teach young minds things that they will later need in their careers, it also prepares them for various life scenarios. So sometimes it might seem that professors bother students with unnecessary and annoying tasks when in fact, these tasks very often show how the real life works. At least that’s what happened to Reddit user @WreckMeSenpai, who found a clever way out of a not-so-pleasant situation and now decided to share his experience with others online.
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Very often, group projects raise alarm among students as it usually means that someone will have to do more than the other
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The user started his story by sharing that his professor from a speech class decided to split students into groups and asked them to record their prepared speech that they would have to send over to him as the class was held online due to the pandemic. For this group project, the professor gave 2 weeks. The narrator didn’t worry and thought that this would be enough time to prepare the task.
At least that was the situation this Reddit user found himself trying to work with assigned group mates
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Since the project was worth 30% of their final grade, the student didn’t wait and messaged his group mates about when they could all start their work. However, he didn’t receive a reply for a couple of days. After being treated with silence, the narrator tried to reach out to the group once again but didn’t receive any response. The student had waited long enough, so at this point they only had a week until the project had to be finished. This made the user divide the workload and assign everyone their part so that after they were finished with their individual parts, they could record the speech.
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Despite the student trying to reach out to others from his group, he was ghosted by them for weeks
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After he notified everyone about their work and upcoming steps, still no one from the group made an effort to even reply to these messages. The absurdity of this situation encouraged the narrator to contact their professor and notify him about the current circumstances. The student already knew that the professor was known for his inability to reply in time, but decided to go through with it anyway.
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After multiple attempts, the student decided to contact the professor and warn him about the situation
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Since he didn’t get any reply or help from neither his group nor the professor, he decided to do the whole project by himself. He gave up a whole night's sleep to write everyone’s parts, which he later also recorded. From the way the project was presented, it was clear that the abandoned student did everything by himself. Despite his clever and time-consuming way to finish the project, the professor gave the student 0, saying that he misinterpreted the task.
Sine he didn't receive a reply from the professor either, the student decided to do the assignment all by himself
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The student's efforts were evaluated by giving him a 0, which made him extremely upset
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This made the narrator extremely furious as he didn’t get any reply from the professor and now was given 0 for the group project he had to do all by himself. The student didn’t want to leave things this way, so he contacted the college board and presented them with the situation he was in. This resulted in the professor finally replying to his emails and changing his results from 0 to 70. However, the professor still had the guts to blame the student for not trying harder to reach him or other students.
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After the user took matters further, his evaluation was changed to 70 and a rant from the professor followed
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The user finished his story saying that the next semester he hadn’t seen the professor, guessing that he must have been laid off of work because of him ignoring students' emails. The student also pointed out that he wasn’t happy about the results he received but having in mind the whole tirade he had to go through, he was happy that it ended.
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This story also encouraged others online to share their experience of having to work in groups. A lot of people agreed that it is really hard to work with students who don’t put in their own work or vanish as soon as possible, leaving their responsibilities behind.
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This situation made people online remember times when they had to deal with group projects and how bad this experience was
