I specifically said that I am not looking for special treatment but want to highlight the ownership of the work. I did all the work and stated clearly to the TA that it is 100% my work and that they are idiots. Not 'self-fulfilling prophecy'-useless but 'dumb as a rock'-useless. On the one hand I do not feel like I owe the others anything, on the other hand I also want to avoid the lecturer seeing my behavior as tactless or arrogant.Īs a student, I was once part of a trio where the two other members were useless. I am mostly interested in the impression I will leave on the lecturer. Is there any reason to be 'diplomatic' and actively hide the fact that I did everything myself? My intent was not to slip by this information and blame the others.

The reason I even mention it, is that it is very close to the submission deadline and I do not want him to think that I/we only started now. We already did most of the work but we need to.

Then I thought whether it would be better to write I already did most of the work but we need to. As it stands now I will have to do the remaining 1/3 by myself as well.īecause I had a question for the lecturer I was writing him an e-mail and one of the sentences was Later I asked them to help me out with the rest because I had another assignment due and thus my time was limited but the contributed work was much less in quantity than what I asked for and also of very low quality, hinting that they did not bother reading the assignment thoroughly or did not really spend time actually thinking of something substantial to contribute. The reaction of the others was something along the lines of 'Wow, thanks man. Because there was no effort on their side to meet and work, my e-mails regarding their progress remained unanswered and from previous experience I know that their quality of work is much lower than mine, I decided to do it myself and already spend around 10 hours doing ~2/3 of the work. Three students and I were assigned a small (~14 hours of work) group project.

Doing my assignment