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Odd, I'm also a Comp Eng grad and my experience was exactly the same - including the cross campus bit. I went to University of Nebraska - Lincoln. There was st
by vegadw 4y ago
Odd, I'm also a Comp Eng grad and my experience was exactly the same - including the cross campus bit. I went to University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
There was still definitely a fair amount of real cheating though. Especially during the online classes of COVID.
Most of the cheating I saw was from classes that had clearly had difficulty creep up year after year due to un-caught cheating though, and had truly awful professors. Chegg, I think, has really inflated the difficulty for the hosest people.
I think the most common cheating i actually saw in engineering was group work where only 1 person did anything. Hell, I have an example on my GitHub where my partner made one commit with one line of code which I then had to redo anyway.
- native_samples 4y agoGroup work is often set up specifically to force this kind of "cheating". My course used it as a way to disguise the fact that students weren't learning programming. They tested everyone at the very start of the course to locate people who already were self taught, then assigned each group one self taught person who ended up doing all the work. The rest ride for free, everyone passes and the scam continues. I've tasted university education very little ever since. Academia is just flooded with intellectual fraud of all kinds. The students sense the lack of seriousness and accountability and realize that no matter what is said, that'll get away with it because the profs don't really care and in fact depend on cheating to survive.