THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED RECENTLY

• You are put in random groups
• Your partners do no work, so you feel the need to do a large chunk of it so when you give them little tasks, they fail hard
• You give them the tasks to do, and they not only don't do their tasks, but they actually delete and fuck up your code
• Now you spend more of your time doing stuff you've already done
• You realize that if you do all the work for them you can get busted, so you beg them and they continue to do the minimal amount of work
• You end up with a bad mark when you have no choice but to submit their work because if you change their broken crap to work, then you're basically doing it all and its plagiarism
• You go to your prof and complain, and the prof tries to discipline the group but the other group members say 'but we did try, there's nothing else we can do', and you get fucked over

Okay now you think you learned... lets see what happens in part 2 of the project with the same people

• Part 2 of 2 rolls around, so you decide "hey I bet if I did only my part, I can show the prof they did nothing when they do nothing"
• Deadline arrives, they submit stuff that doesnt even work, final mark is 100/<num of group members> % because only your section worked
• You tell the prof, and then you are told stuff will be readjusted
• Readjustment never happens

Now you want to take it beyond since clearly this isn't working

• You get upset and go complain to higher ups
• Nothing happens and it's brushed under the rug after 1-2 weeks of emails

So to the people who are trying to say that we should aggressively go after these people, yes... I tried. It failed. I got burned. I was the legitimate person who didn't plagiarize by allowing others to cheat since I hate that... and guess who got burned at every step? Me.

So now I don't take courses that have partners that I can't pick.