for the record, ITT-tech forces you to take GE classes just like any other degree would…
yeah I did, naturally survival came into my mind from hanging out not taking my studies seriously enough. What’s funny is back then my cheating became so widely known that people referred it as a “business” in which I would sell “cheat notes” for $$$. Hilarious.
eventually teachers began to crack down on my store if you wanna call it that, I guess the saying goes it’s only cheating if you get caught in which we all understand, but I knew I was due ahead of time.
Where I teach, I find most professors actually just use proctors for their exam or for low level classes will have their tests at the primary computer testing center. Both of these scenarios just invite cheating. I find by protoring the exam myself (which always throws students off when they first walk in) I minimize the cheating that takes place and since I am only 25 I have a much better grasp on ways to high tech cheat than most of the other professors in my department have a clue about.
Where I teach, I find most professors actually just use proctors for their exam or for low level classes will have their tests at the primary computer testing center. Both of these scenarios just invite cheating. I find by protoring the exam myself (which always throws students off when they first walk in) I minimize the cheating that takes place and since I am only 25 I have a much better grasp on ways to high tech cheat than most of the other professors in my department have a clue about.
You know, I think some of you might be shocked to find out that some people DON’T want to be “well rounded” at all. I certainly don’t want to waste my time in a class called “INTRO TO ANCIENT GAY AFRICAN AMERICAN ART IN THE 8th CENTURY” because I don’t need it. I have nothing against ancient, gay, African Americans, but I have a problem paying for learning your art that I’m going to forget later.
I’m not going to cheat in those classes either. Like Fishjie said, they are jokes. Low level lib arts classes are jokes.
Louisiana doesn’t count. It is an anomaly of the United States.
imo.
Louisiana doesn’t count. It is an anomaly of the United States.
imo.
College itself can be a joke. I’ve been in college 2 years. I have taken 1 class that is relevant to my major. WTF is that shit? I’ve learned more by buying a 50 dollar book that a semester of schooling.
Lol silly people. CRM, Applied Anthro, Educational Anthropology, not our fault you don’t know how we roll, or think that all we do is talk to indians and homeless people.
Carpet Lint, about as uselesss as G3nshiro and not as funny? Probably.
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
-George Bernard Shaw
edit: forgot to add why i put this quote here. even though much of what you learn is totally useless, i still respect SOME aspects of this crumbling institution.
yeah a few posts later I looked it up and like I said was a bit surprised that it was more involved than I thought; however the point still stands there’s a good reason it’s not accredited and the credits/degrees not accepted universally
From what I’ve heard, humanities departments at most universities have been bled so dry in the last fifty years that universities as a whole aren’t anything more than glorified trade schools or applied science research centers. (Nothing wrong with that.) The only exceptions are a handful of private liberal arts colleges that charge an arm and a leg for tuition. So if people want to know why their general elective classes at public universities are taught by exploited, part-time adjunct professors who border on mental retardation, the answer is that that’s all the state and federal legislatures decided they were willing to pay for. Any difference has had to be made up by tuition from students, who mostly never saw much point in the classes anyway.
Even when I slacked or forgot about an exam date I never felt the need to cheat. I think of taking tests without studying as a game in analysis, so I prefer reasoning through things even if I didn’t know the answers.
Fortunately, I’m a pretty good test taker… unless it’s math, then I’m screwed.
i always really looked down on cheating as a way for people to justify not studying hard (in the case of a hard teacher. “but everyone has a low grade!”) or not giving a fuck (i just hang out all the time/this class isnt in my major)
talking about college obviously.
i dont know, i always take pride in being able to annihilate any kind of test thrown my way because i work hard. cheating just takes that away. i guess some people aren’t proud of a hard days work.
now, in high school i was the master of cheating. i gamed the system so fucking hard. but in college, where it really matters, i don’t.
Anybody want to go to a doctor/nurse who cheated their way through school? How about learning from professors who lied on their research to get their phd? Cheating is relatively find at a younger age, but when stuff gets real, you have to know your stuff. But I feel that allowing cheating sets a precedence that it’s okay to slack off and cut corners as long as nobody finds out. Maybe it’s just me and this is a wrong assumption.
Hi. About college. Treat it like the streets: “I ain’t letting these fuckers fail me.” “FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING MOTHERFUCKERS!” I’m in grad school right now. A couple times everyday i find myself saying this mantra. And it has helped me a lot.
Where did your sig go? That was my favorite shit
I’ve done some cheating here and there. I didn’t think it was too big of a deal. I almost feel doing a little bit of cheating when the opportunity presents itself is something one should take advantage of. Sometimes you can get away with stuff and there is no reason not to do it. But anyways…
Probably the most significant example of cheating that I’ve done was in grade school. Our tests were simple. We would have a blank map of a continent and we had to write down on a piece of paper as many country names as possible. Writing down capital names were considered bonus points. So, on the day of the test, I came in with a piece of paper with my name, date, etc on the heading and all of the countries written on the piece of paper and I turned that in. Too easy. It was funny because the teacher congratulated me on doing the best in class. Kind of awkward, but whatever.
fair enough, i went there because i wasn’t really feeling myself and i needed some direction (they pick classes for you). so i went and nabbed an associates from there to transfer into a more prestiguouse school to get my bachelors.