A video that was posted to the social media platform TikTok features a student at a New York university who accuses another student of stealing both her notes and project one semester. According to the caption under the video, the original poster writes, “Students need to take accountability too it’s not just teachers or the school district this is a all around problem.“
A video posted to TikTok features a business student and former model, @sahirahabdur, as she talks about an incident that happened to her at school. She claims that a colleague asked for help on a project and requested permission to take photos of notes. According to the video, she explicitly stated to her colleague after the notes had been photographed, “Do not copy my TED Talk topic and do not copy my notes. Use my notes as a template. Use my notes as a reference for your notes.“
On the day of the assignment, this colleague reportedly stole the assignment verbatim and attempted to pass it off as her own. Fortunately, she was able to reach her professor and inform them before the assignment went any further. Various commenters jumped into the replies, both to share similar experiences and to offer advice.
One person directly replied with, “as a professor I recommend emailing your professor your topic idea early on (ask for their feedback or something) to have a record or just don’t share your topic. it’s very hard for me to prove who is telling the truth without evidence (he said she said isn’t enough). even conduct offices will want evidence so make evidence just in case.”
Business Student Accuses Colleague of Stealing Her Project Verbatim
Part of @sahirahabdur’s current online content revolves around being an older student among a sea of younger colleagues. She’s made content revolving around younger students in the past, with one video that has text written over it that reads, “College students are dumb!!“
Another video of hers provides even more context on her stance, with text written atop it that reads, “I blame no child left behind,” in reference to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, signed into law by President George W. Bush, which was an education reform aiming to close the gap by holding schools accountable for student performance.
To punctuate the video above, she reiterates a similar statement as in the caption and is quoted as saying, “Students need to take accountability.” As of this moment, the videos posted to her account after this one do not concern the situation or give additional updates.
