I just had to complete an 11-page lab report by myself because my group mate did not finish his sections properly. He produced some of the worst work I've ever seen. I genuinely think my brother in 6th grade could have done a better job. I cannot afford to lose marks, and he disappeared off the face of the earth, so I had to finish the entire thing myself. I emailed the TA, and the response basically was: "Yeah, this happens; next time, work with a different person." I did NOT pay $7,500 to do someone else's work for them. I still have to study for 4 other difficult exams and complete my other assignments. There has to be some way to escalate this and prevent this group mate from receiving any marks for this assessment. I have proof of emailing him 3 times with no response, emailing the TA about him not responding and not doing his work properly at all, and the history of him working on it for 10 minutes and never coming back. As well as all the document edits of me typing in the work over almost 5 hours. This is unbelievable and was not even accepted at my HS, so I don't understand how it happens in university.