so i pretty much got screwed over by my lab partner...

you're supposed to get back to work on your lab.

You should have informed your professor early on once you felt your partner wasn't doing his fair share of work. Sometimes, it may help if the professor knows about the situation early, since some professors may be inclined to be more lenient on your grades or be more forgiving in terms of deadlines in cases like this. It's a bit too late now for all this though. Do your best to finish as much of your assignment as you can. Good luck.silentexistence

I actually did inform the professor, many times in fact, and he didnt listen to what I had to say untill I met with him today. He couldnt even do his share of the work on his own, he always had his roommates (who were all CS majors) do it for him.

Ive been reading what you guys have had to say, and just to clarify a few things:

1) we get one lab assignment a week

2) for every lab assignment we do get, he always had to reschedule it with me because he was always either hungover, or working out (which is understandable because he is a football player). Whenever I propose meeting to work on it on the day we assignment, it always gets pushed back till the night before its due.

3) The only reason he ever finished his fair share on our labs was because he always had his roommmates (3-4 computer science majors) holding his hand through his portions and practically doing the lab for him.

4) the lab that we were on was our first forray into graphics. considering that this is an intro class and im just learning, not to mention that we are going from designing tables to drawing pictures in a week (which is a big step for me), naturally im going to get stumped and need help myself (nevermind the fact that the lab itself was designed for 2 people to work on)

5) if anyone wants to know, the language we are working with is java

I actually did inform the professor, many times in fact, and he didnt listen to what I had to say untill I met with him today. He couldnt even do his share of the work on his own, he always had his roommates (who were all CS majors) do it for him.

Neo-ganon

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I actually did inform the professor, many times in fact, and he didnt listen to what I had to say untill I met with him today. He couldnt even do his share of the work on his own, he always had his roommates (who were all CS majors) do it for him.

silentexistence

thats true! all anyone can ever ask you at the end of the day. my plan is to solo the last 2 labs and get at least 90% on both and on the final. hopefully i can make up for the performance on this lab then

thats true! all anyone can ever ask you at the end of the day. my plan is to solo the last 2 labs and get at least 90% on both and on the final. hopefully i can make up for the performance on this lab then

Neo-ganon

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thats true! all anyone can ever ask you at the end of the day. my plan is to solo the last 2 labs and get at least 90% on both and on the final. hopefully i can make up for the performance on this lab then

silentexistence

really? It seems about the same to me as using C++ imo. My prior experience with programming includes a high school C++ class and modding for Doom :P

My problem isn't as bad as yours but i still think its funny. Today we were doing a lab in chemistry. Its on stoichiometry where we have to make an exact amount of a product. We spent to lab periods mixing the chemicals and doing the reactions. With five minutes left in class we had to seperate the water from the chemicals to measure the product and my teacher came over to look at it. As it was filtering he hit the beaker and the filter spilling everything on the lab table. He completly screwed up the lab, but at least he promised to make it up to us. I think i will do a written lab for this one and attribute any error to him.

Kick his god damn ass?

Group projects are a pain.

The only thing you can do is talk to your proffessor.

In my comp sci college course, we got assigned lab partners. I had a good thing going with being partners with one of my friends (we were getting all A's and B's on the labs), but for whatever reason, the professor ignored our requests to continue being partners, and I got stuck with some jock who knows nothing about computer science.

That was about 3 weeks ago. flash forward to now, and we only ever get C's or D's on our labs. My lab partner starts giving me crap when I asked him if he did his portion of the lab we were working on (or I was working on, since he was gone that day due to a family emergency). So we make plans to meet that weekend to finish the lab off. That weekend, he tells me that he hadnt worked on his parts of it at all and had dropped the class, which pretty much means that He left me with a 2 person's worth of work lab assignment thats about 20% done. I asked the professor for an extension and a new lab partner. He extended it about a day, but gave me no new partner. So now, the assignment is due tomorrow, and I got about 1/10th of a lab done because I cant figure out the rest.

what, OT, should I do?

Neo-ganon

I enjoy your suffering D: I must be a bit sadistic.

Atleast you're not in the friend-zone.

Atleast you're not in the friend-zone.

martin101n

It seems to me that the only thing you can do is try and do the work.

Maybe you can try to argue your case again, but it doesn't seem like you have enough time.

In my comp sci college course, we got assigned lab partners. I had a good thing going with being partners with one of my friends (we were getting all A's and B's on the labs), but for whatever reason, the professor ignored our requests to continue being partners, and I got stuck with some jock who knows nothing about computer science.

That was about 3 weeks ago. flash forward to now, and we only ever get C's or D's on our labs. My lab partner starts giving me crap when I asked him if he did his portion of the lab we were working on (or I was working on, since he was gone that day due to a family emergency). So we make plans to meet that weekend to finish the lab off. That weekend, he tells me that he hadnt worked on his parts of it at all and had dropped the class, which pretty much means that He left me with a 2 person's worth of work lab assignment thats about 20% done. I asked the professor for an extension and a new lab partner. He extended it about a day, but gave me no new partner. So now, the assignment is due tomorrow, and I got about 1/10th of a lab done because I cant figure out the rest.

what, OT, should I do?

Neo-ganon

Do the best you can in such a short amount of time.

the assignment is due tomorrow, and I got about 1/10th of a lab done becauseI cant figure out the rest.

Neo-ganon

Sounds like you screwed yourself over.

[QUOTE="Neo-ganon"]

In my comp sci college course, we got assigned lab partners. I had a good thing going with being partners with one of my friends (we were getting all A's and B's on the labs), but for whatever reason, the professor ignored our requests to continue being partners, and I got stuck with some jock who knows nothing about computer science.

That was about 3 weeks ago. flash forward to now, and we only ever get C's or D's on our labs. My lab partner starts giving me crap when I asked him if he did his portion of the lab we were working on (or I was working on, since he was gone that day due to a family emergency). So we make plans to meet that weekend to finish the lab off. That weekend, he tells me that he hadnt worked on his parts of it at all and had dropped the class, which pretty much means that He left me with a 2 person's worth of work lab assignment thats about 20% done. I asked the professor for an extension and a new lab partner. He extended it about a day, but gave me no new partner. So now, the assignment is due tomorrow, and I got about 1/10th of a lab done because I cant figure out the rest.

what, OT, should I do?

MrGeezer

I gotta agree. You know your partner is a loser so it's time to do some damage control. I hate partnering up only because of this scenario. Usually labs are fun and you get paired with cool people but that is not always the case. And labs will happen because you are going to be judged by your ability to work with others. The same thing is going to happen when you get a job. It WILL happen. Do what you can but learn from this so that you're ready when it happens again. Oh yes it WILL happen again.