Why I will never pursue cheating again

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 19, 2011, 7:14 PM UTC

detst wrote: post #277

btilly wrote: post #268

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I understand why the students cheat. However it is possible to be in their positions and not cheat. I don't want to have co-workers who cheat. I therefore would like to see the book thrown at them so that they learn not to cheat. If they truly had no choice about cheating, then I'd show more sympathy. But they do. By contrast we truly don't get to choose how we as humans are emotionally wired.

> By contrast we truly don't get to choose how we as humans are emotionally wired. What a lame excuse. He still had as much of a choice in being a dick as the students had in cheating. Even under his own account of the office-hours incident, he was very inconsiderate and doesn't seem to understand it. If you have office hours, know there will be many students showing up on this particular day, and yet you aren't prep…

Post by xom » Tue, Jul 19, 2011, 7:57 PM UTC

Lost_BiomedE wrote: post #88

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I remember doing some work on an essay with a friend of mine over the phone. There was one particular sentence he came up with that was absolutely stellar. I know it was original because we were working from the same text and discussing it over the phone - I was there when he came up with it. When he got his essay back, this one sentence was circled in red with the comment "If you're going to plagiarise, be less obvi…

This happened to me in English comp. I decided to make the most of the class by really studying style. I turned in three papers utilizing different author's styles in my own way: H.P. Lovecraft, Hunter S. Thompson, and Henry Thoreau. I learned a hell of a lot but was told that I cheated. I told them I would sit after class and write a paragraph or two of each style for them. They said it wasn't necessary as they coul…

Post by holdenc » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 5:24 AM UTC

donmanguno wrote: post #496

holdenc wrote: post #296

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It's good that you've found a career that will tolerate your unapologetic selfishness, whining and indifference. All of these things will surely limit your success outside academia.

This guy's a cheater