u/4ArrakisTune

I (21M) am an economics student and this semester we had a small behavioral economics project where we had to test a simple idea on campus and present the results. My partner, “Maya” (22F), picked the topic with me back in March, then basically vanished once the actual work started. I sent her the plan, the survey questions, the dates I was going to stand near the student center, all of it. She answered late every time and kept saying she was swamped, which I understood at first because everyone is. I ended up collecting 96 responses by myself over three afternoons, cleaned the data, made the charts, and wrote the explanation. The only thing she did was suggest changing one word in the title. Yesterday, two days before the presentation, she asked me to “just add her name normally” because it would look bad if she had nothing for this class. I told her I could mention that we originally planned it together, but I wasn’t comfortable listing her as an equal contributor. She got really upset and said I was being dramatic becuase the grade is based on the final result, not “who held the clipboard.” She also said she had family stuff and I should have checked in more instead of quietly doing everything. I did know she was busy, but I didn’t know she was expecting me to carry the entire thing and still split the credit. Our professor allows individual submissions if a group falls apart, so I emailed him and explained what happened before she could add herself to the slides. Now two people in our major think I humiliated her over one project and that I should have let it go since thier final grade matters too. AITA? TL;DR: My project partner missed basically all the work, then wanted equal credit at the end, and I told the professor before presenting seperately.