This is one of those assignments where you have a prac, and the report is due the following week; I didn't know anyone in my group, and even though I act like I don't, I actually like getting grouped with new people because I want to make friends, and this prac was actually interesting.
My first red flag should've been that I ended up doing all the Excel work during the prac itself. two members were decent and read values off the instruments for me to enter, two more just sat there and did basically nothing, and when I tried to get the last one involved by asking him to look up the interpolation formula we needed, he wanted me to just ask AI to do it, so I gave up and googled it myself. Everyone seemed keen to get it done early, so much so I pushed our own self-set deadline back and said Sunday was fine; I emailed everyone the Excel file, confirmed they all had it, and set up a Google Drive on the train home.
Over the rest of that week and weekend I did basically all the Excel work barring one final task, the intro (won't pretend that one was hard), 1 of the 2 main body sections and unofficially the results sections. I started getting stressed, because from Thursday to Sunday only one group member had done anything, and all they'd done was recreate what I already had in the Excel via code, plus that one final bit which I appreciated. Except their outputs had errors mine didn't. Then yesterday I finally saw other people "doing stuff" in the doc and felt a bit guilty. Until I actually looked at what they'd done: The code guy had just fixed their code to match what I'd already had in Excel days earlier, someone else had literally copied a table of data straight out of my Excel, and on top of that someone left a comment on my uncertainty section telling me to "talk about xyz". which I admit was a good point, and I have done it, but for ffs, whoever they are, there's no way they've done enough work to be leaving me comments.
It baffles me how these people have managed to get to 3rd year engineering with this work ethic or lack of.
Actual Question:
Long ass context out the way, something else that happened is on blackboard I was assigned to the wrong inter-prac prac group and had to get this fixed over email. I took this opportunity to drop in a quick note about how it'd be helpful to send them a message over blackboard which I did on Sunday pretty much asking if anyone had plans to work on it attempting to not be too harsh, I got one reply from someone who said they'd work on it today so we'll see ig. Do I even bother sending a follow up?
I am wondering what the procedure is like for this. I am definitely afraid of conflict and am unsure if this kind thing is more trouble than it's worth. Also for reference this report is worth 16% of our final grade and with a 60% final I can't afford to lose the marks. It's due Thursday and guess I'll just be doing the remained of the report tomorrow?? This is all done on a google drive so I am probably able to prove my situation relatively easily as just going through what 'all anonymous users' have done reveals not fucking much, but again potentially more trouble than I want to handle at the moment.
I also think I need to make transferring out of this prac group a priority as there are 2 more in the rest of the sem with group reports, although these reports seem to be smaller.
Thanks in advance for any help and apologies for how this reads as I wanted to keep it generic for some reason.
