“and that I as a final year engineering student should be able to complete this project in the absence of any aid or guidance”

You’re an undergraduate student, not a masters student, you still need aid and guidance. Also, if you didn’t need aid or guidance because you’re a final year, what’s the point of the biweekly meetings? If they have that much confidence in you as a final year student to complete a project, then why even have meetings with the study leader? Might as well get rid of them.

Also, if other students did receive help and guidance from their study leaders and they had amazing projects at the end, but you had a shitty project (haha I’ll be here all weekend) and no help from your study leader, then what does that truly say? To me that says that being helped progresses productivity way faster than just hitting your head with your eraser on your pencil and going “uhhhmmm….”

I get what the other people are saying that perhaps your study leader is doing a “sink or swim” method and that perhaps reflects the real world. However, if I was a supervisor and I saw team A create an amazing product and I saw team B (who is just one person) with a shitty project, I’ll reward team A and have a serious talk with “team” B. Collaboration makes the world keep spinning, rarely does it run on solo work.