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Input: Background, I (F) am a sophomore in college, the friend (Tom, M, sophmore) are both Electrical Engineering (EE) students.

One of the classes required for EE students is an intro class that is only homework based. To make it easier the class meets 2 days a week and on the second day they give you the answers to the homework. This class is meant to be a GPA booster and teach you how to use MATLAB without much stress. The homework can be completed alone or in a group of two.

Here is where the issues begin. After the first 2 weeks of class and assignments, Tom stopped showing any involvement in the assignments, not even a text asking if the homework was done. He had a different time for the second class so he could not see my work and I could not see his.

So, I turned in assignments 3-5 without his name on them. A few weeks later he notices he has 0 points for HW 3 and asks about it. I tell him I forgot to put his name on the assignment and that I will email the instructor.

He then seemed to show interest in helping again and said he would do the end report for the next assignment, which is just putting my screencaps of the code into a word doc.

The due date comes, and I end up doing all of the work again without a word from him so I can receive points. For some reason I put his name on this assignment.

Tom is busy with other clubs on campus and our schedules are almost identical, so I know the difficult classes he’s taking. However, this class literally gives you the answers if you just show up to the recitation period.

I then emailed the instructors and asked to meet with them to discuss his lack of contribution to the assignment. I asked for his name to be removed from everything but assignments 1 and 2. Essentially, he will have 37% in the intro course with half the semester to fix his grade on his own. I also had his name removed from a lab report in our circuits class as this pattern has continued into that class as well.

AITA for setting him back in an intro class because he would not help with the assignments?


setting a buddy back in an intro class because he would not help with the assignments