I think dynamics like these are pretty interesting, reminds me of a convo with phd student I work with about taking classes he could care less about and I said

I think dynamics like these are pretty interesting, reminds me of a convo with phd student I work with about taking classes he could care less about and I said pretty soon people will probably be using google glass or contacts that they can leverage during exams and a sign of it working will be when universities start trying to crack down on such behavior despite such things making students more efficient in a system that has seemed to focus on everything but what it sells itself as (at least idealized at its "best")… all in all, just another symptom of another system moving to obsolescence. "I don’t know what I was expecting in return from the student. Would my client feel the pain of the story and then question the ethics of using another person’s life as an admissions essay? Would she call me and thank me for cutting out a personal part of my heart for her? Later, I received a one-word email from her: “Thanks.” The message stung. I thought about the itchy Goodwill sweater and how much itchier it had felt as I cried after my classmate mocked me. I had given up a private piece of myself for the bargain price of $400. I logged off and shut down my laptop." Also interesting to see how individuals seem to internalize the dynamics of the larger systems they operate within. What's more void: someone engaging in such a behavior as the author in this system or similar behavior in other systems, or any system that incentivizes such behavior through various mechanisms that people who (or would like to) consider themselves not destitute/sellout/whatever-flavor-of-the-day, live their lives by and submit themselves to? I posit neither or both…