Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : It’s my first semester in college, and I would be lying if I said I had tons of friends. I’m in my school’s honors academy, and all of my close friends are also honors students.

My classmates know that I work hard in school because I am always doing my best to participate in class discussions. I know that it can be discouraging to professors to not have anyone answer their questions, so I’m always trying to actively be a part of the class discussion.

That said, whenever exams roll around, I’m always getting emails from people who I can’t even put a face to the name asking me to help them study. Today was our last class day of the semester, and I had a group of 5 or 6 people swarm me in my first class asking for my number “in case they needed help”.

Now, I’m perfectly fine with forming study groups and collaborating to study for the exams. This actually happened during midterms as well, and I agreed to help form a group study guide for one class on Google Docs. However, I was the ONLY person who was contributing to it, so eventually I just made a copy and did my own work.

I’m okay with studying with people, but when tons of people ask me for help and I’m not benefitting at all, it just feels like I’m a free tutor. I’m trying to see this from the point of view of people who might be struggling in class and just want help from someone, but it feels like I’m being taken advantage of just because they know I’m smart. Some of these people have literally never talked to me before beyond asking for exam help. AITA for just wanting to ignore them and do my own studying alone?