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Most of these articles read: "They cheat because A, B, and C... it could be because of D..." I would love to read an article which is like: "I cheat because X.
by b0rsuk 9y ago
Most of these articles read: "They cheat because A, B, and C... it could be because of D..."
I would love to read an article which is like:
"I cheat because X..."
"I cheat because Y..."
"We cheated because Z..."
In other words, an article or a study based on an anonymous survey. Straight from the horse's mouth.
- emidln 9y agoI helped people cheat because it paid better than working fast food. I never took an exam, but I did a lot of assignments. I kinda felt bad for some of the students who were taught Java for a couple semesters and then thrown into C for an operating systems class. I also figured that they'd just fail the exam if they didn't learn it eventually (which happened frequently, usually resulting in more work/money for me next semester).
- douche 9y agoI bought the solution manual for my algorithms and data structures course, because the professor, TAs, and textbook were so incredibly bad that I couldn't figure out how you were supposed to structure the proofs that you were expected to write for the problem sets - and they were incredibly anal about the way that everything needed to be formatted. I just gave up - I'd implement everything in C for fun and to know how it actually worked, and copy over the bullshit parts for the homeworks. I've never seen a class that could have been so much fun taught so badly. When you sit there and watch a tenured professor do nothing more than copy CLRS out on a blackboard, listing by listing...