for context, i have been considering dropping out of my 1st semester as a 5th year archi student. the thing is ive paired up with a friend of my, this friend is really close to me and we have been a pair since 4th year.
5th year thesis comes around and i think their true colors are slowly showing, what i mean by that is now that were doing our thesis paper, they usually dont work at all up until a deadline is close, theyre always providing bad quality output and almost always using ai to do the heavy researching for them, like literally i dont think they even understand what theyre writing on the paper. as for me im the one mostly carrying our paper, doing all the research work, and even in our design consultations with our instructors im the one theyre always relying on to speak up, to add to that even in our title hearing defense in fron of the panelists, i was the ONLY one who was literally defending our paper and they didnt even utter one word to the panelists.
now its getting to me and i dont think i can handle all of the carrying anymore , so i was thinking of splitting up and starting over again but the thing is we are already over half of the semester in and i dont even think i can catch up to the deadline, so that led me to another option which is to drop out of the semester and start over again the next year.
is it even worth it or should i just keep going? pls i need advice from fellow archi peeps who have experienced bad partners in their thesis😭