Over re-use

Our professor asked us to meet him the previous week. I had no idea that what was happened. When I went there, he explained me that our team (my team with Indian students) copied and pasted some parts of our documents from previous year teams. They made references to that project, but they copied word by word that was not acceptable. 

I didn't know that. He had asked teams to re-use, but people did over re-use! Instead of understanding something and using it in our project, they copied any part that didn't work on it. Hopefully, the professor knew me well, and he knew that I was not the person who did that. And hopefully he understood the situation, and asked us to fix it. We could be accused for plagiarism. Those who did that didn't even think that the plagiarism was very intense in the US. Ryan told me that an international student was fired from their university for this reason a few years ago. 

I spent lots of time to fix their mistakes. We re-wrote everything from the beginning. I also spent lots of time to make the project myself to make sure that nothing wrong happens again. I wish I were in Angelina's team in the other class, too.