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I don't follow could you explain?
The theory of higher education and a liberal arts degree, is what I'm assuming OP is talking about. The idea of a liberal arts degree at a university is to create a well-rounded individual. The idea of taking classes outside your major is to learn about life. The idea of even going to college (which is ENTIRELY optional) is to learn. Not just to pass classes and get an A. This is something that, traditionally, CS and…
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Yeah earning that A in Sociology 101 really changed my life's trajectory.
Exercising your ability to sit down and Just Do It instead of giving into shortcut temptations probably did change your life trajectory over the years. Also, seems like a weird bar. I doubt any single class "changed your life trajectory." Why would it need to? I could say that about very few things in life. But I get it, liberal arts bad, STEM good.
Have you considered the possibility that he's a highly motivated person who simply has a more creative "It" in mind?
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What's the point of going to school then if not to expose you to things and make you a better, more knowledgeable, well rounded person? If only grades matter then you can buy a fake diploma and you're done with it. You may be aware that you don't need to go to college in order to be a software developer/hacker. But if you decide to do that then what's the point in faking the grades?
If grades don't matter, why did you show up for the exam?
Besides, I don't think anyone making their point would suggest that you shouldn't try to make good grades, which involves learning a subject well enough, including doing the boring work, to get a good mark.
I agree with them. If grades are the only thing you care about such that you'd be fine with paying an insider for a diploma without doing the work, then I'd say you wasted the entirely opportunity and only exercised your ability to cheat and be dishonest.
When I was a junior, I mentioned to my housemate that I had forgot my Blackboard password. "It's just your birthday" he said, and I looked at him shocked. 30 Minutes later I was in my professor's account. Their birthday month and day were public on Facebook, so it was only a matter of guessing their age. I reported this to our IT department and they were not pleased. They let me know they had the power to expel me bu…
This response is grounds for immediate dismissal of the IT person in my view.
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I don't follow could you explain?
What's the point of going to school then if not to expose you to things and make you a better, more knowledgeable, well rounded person? If only grades matter then you can buy a fake diploma and you're done with it. You may be aware that you don't need to go to college in order to be a software developer/hacker. But if you decide to do that then what's the point in faking the grades?
To get the really expensive piece of paper that lets you through the HR gatekeeping.
When I was in high school, the “good” PCs were locked with a boot password. Only upper level cs students could use them. It was somewhat annoying to have to get our teacher to enter the password each time it froze etc. Partially because higher level classes were all individual study and often math classes were in progress in the same room. So it could take a while to get the teacher’s attention. So one time some clas…
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I don't follow could you explain?
What's the point of going to school then if not to expose you to things and make you a better, more knowledgeable, well rounded person? If only grades matter then you can buy a fake diploma and you're done with it. You may be aware that you don't need to go to college in order to be a software developer/hacker. But if you decide to do that then what's the point in faking the grades?
When I was a junior, I mentioned to my housemate that I had forgot my Blackboard password. "It's just your birthday" he said, and I looked at him shocked. 30 Minutes later I was in my professor's account. Their birthday month and day were public on Facebook, so it was only a matter of guessing their age. I reported this to our IT department and they were not pleased. They let me know they had the power to expel me bu…
“I reported this to our IT department and they were not pleased. They let me know they had the power to expel me but wouldn't.” This response is grounds for immediate dismissal of the IT person in my view.
I remember when I was a teenager in high school, I found out that ftp. .net was open, with the login of "admin" and password of "admin". I wasn't able to figure out how to change my grades (and I would like to think that I wouldn't have even if I could have), but I did find a directory of all their registered software that I was able to download, and the teachers' profile pages were editable. If I recall, I think I e…
Assuming it isn't ignored, you can smile to yourself years later at the thought that there is a bug report open somewhere that a poor engineer has probably spent weeks trying to reproduce.
I remember when I was a teenager in high school, I found out that ftp. .net was open, with the login of "admin" and password of "admin". I wasn't able to figure out how to change my grades (and I would like to think that I wouldn't have even if I could have), but I did find a directory of all their registered software that I was able to download, and the teachers' profile pages were editable. If I recall, I think I e…
I think the most maddening thing you could do in that scenario without being malicious would be to just log in periodically, pick a teacher at random, and "corrupt" their name randomly. Switch two letters, insert random symbols and numbers, etc. Don't make the names insulting or anything, just make a subtle, visible, slowly progressive 'bug'. Assuming it isn't ignored, you can smile to yourself years later at the tho…