Today, I met up with my group for class. We were doing some final checks on the project we've been working on all semester, when I realized something about one guy's work seemed off. I googled it and found out it's almost completely plagiarized. It's all due in the morning. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I failed an assignment because the person I paid to do it plagiarized the entire thing. FML
Today, I handed in an internship assignment that I have been working on for months. Once submitted, a pop-up showed, stating the assignment was 100% plagiarized. What was it plagiarized from? A student paper. My own, to be more specific - the exact same paper I had uploaded seconds before. FML
Today, my teacher called a friend and me out of class and told us we had been reported for plagiarism because our answers to a problem were nearly identical, and he said that I shouldn't have shared my work. This for an assignment where significant marks were awarded for collaborating with peers. FML
Today, after I'd being sick all day, my boyfriend volunteered to do my very long sociology paper. I was later notified by my professor that the paper I'd submitted was completely plagiarized. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
Today, I got yelled at for 10 minutes by my head of department for failing one of my students for plagiarism, because, "we can't be sure." It was my work he plagiarised, but because it's not in our system, it doesn't count. FML
Today, at school, I got in trouble for plagiarizing on a paper. The subject of said paper was where I see myself in ten years. FML
Today, we were all put in groups to make a presentation together. And by "together" I mean I pulled an all nighter to finish it by myself. My group criticized my work. FML
Today, I found out that my ten-page paper, which has taken me two months to construct perfectly and is worth 30% of my grade, was on the wrong book. It’s due tomorrow. FML
Today, a group project for work was due. I honestly forgot about it and edited some words to make it seem like I worked on it. Did you know that Google Docs spreadsheet can track not only the changes made, but who made the changes? My colleagues were pissed. FML
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JessBassett 24
That's the horrible thing about group work, call the guy out and demand he do his work! Next time you can request not to have the same group with him... FYL!
Pancakes017 19
Probably should've made sure he was doing a decent job just a tiny bit sooner, OP.
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titibug823 11
Document it and report it. Also, talk to the person in the wrong and make them change it.
nina21194 12
Same thing happened to me. I'm so sorry.
Bliepje 22
We had the same problem once. When we told the teacher, we had to make clear who wrote what. We just got a normal grade, she got in big problems.
poopface82 25
Quality-checking the guy as you go is asking an awful lot. That said, I would go as a group to the instructor and sell this asshat down the river. My brother had a similar situation in college where he did all the work and his partner dicked around all semester. The instructor was aware of the situation, my brother got an awesome grade, and the other guy is probably working at the Citgo now. Hopefully this works out similarly for you.
xebi 4
I don't really understand what the issue is and why you didn't just have a quiet word with your teacher to explain the situation.
limabeans101029 21
Some teachers just aren't very understanding about this kind of thing.
ZoroMiHawk 25
I don't know about your school's rules, but today I submitted a group assignment too, and whilst we all did a good job even if someone plagiarised their work, only that individual will get punished for it the rest of us will be graded on our own work.
PizzaDeliveryGrl 19
This is why I can't stand group work. I can do bad all by myself, you know?
TheyCallMeDamien 18
Inform the teacher and insulate yourselves. You shouldn't all get a bad grade cause of one liar. Another reason I hate group projects.
middlenamefrank 8
Talk to the professor and tell him what you found. What else can you do?
Omniprism 15
Talk to the teacher.