Spiderman
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So, most of you know I am in school right now and have been for way too long. Well, our grades from the last course we took haven't been posted yet and it's been over a month now. So the dean came in Monday to talk to everyone about it. Apparently there were quite a few people cheating on some of the in-class quizzes and possibly even on an exam.
Now cheating sucks, in any form I believe, but this is a bit different. This is grad school and it's a small school (class of 150). We had 2 exams for the course and our quiz points which were taken directly from the questions in the back of our book, so all you had to do to get them right was read the effin book and show up to class. It turns out that the quizzes added up were worth more than the 1st entire exam too.
So the dean is pissed, he's kicking some kids out of school. But he said that around 30-40% of the class was cheating in one form or another. Whether it was taking the quizzes from home while getting the answers from someone in class over a chat, text, whatever; or taking it from home without getting the answers and just hitting C,C,C for the answer. Not really sure what else they are looking for but I know they are looking at the ip addresses of people when they took the quizzes as well as going through aim or instant messenger chat logs that are stored on the school server!!!
This sucks for the idiots who really did cheat, and I know 5 of the ones who really did. B/c they will now be around 120k in debt with no way to pay it off unless they can get into another school. However, I'm a little bothered by the instant messenger conversation check...not b/c I was dishonest on my exams/quizzes, but b/c I do chat about things on there that I don't want other people reading sometimes. Say when I'm chatting with my wife and shes in a horny mood, lol...or chatting with someone about AS. I'd like to think that they will only look at the chat logs for the time periods when the quizzes were taken, but I'm not sure I trust every one of them to do that.
Anyhow, thought I'd rant about it a bit.
Now cheating sucks, in any form I believe, but this is a bit different. This is grad school and it's a small school (class of 150). We had 2 exams for the course and our quiz points which were taken directly from the questions in the back of our book, so all you had to do to get them right was read the effin book and show up to class. It turns out that the quizzes added up were worth more than the 1st entire exam too.
So the dean is pissed, he's kicking some kids out of school. But he said that around 30-40% of the class was cheating in one form or another. Whether it was taking the quizzes from home while getting the answers from someone in class over a chat, text, whatever; or taking it from home without getting the answers and just hitting C,C,C for the answer. Not really sure what else they are looking for but I know they are looking at the ip addresses of people when they took the quizzes as well as going through aim or instant messenger chat logs that are stored on the school server!!!
This sucks for the idiots who really did cheat, and I know 5 of the ones who really did. B/c they will now be around 120k in debt with no way to pay it off unless they can get into another school. However, I'm a little bothered by the instant messenger conversation check...not b/c I was dishonest on my exams/quizzes, but b/c I do chat about things on there that I don't want other people reading sometimes. Say when I'm chatting with my wife and shes in a horny mood, lol...or chatting with someone about AS. I'd like to think that they will only look at the chat logs for the time periods when the quizzes were taken, but I'm not sure I trust every one of them to do that.
Anyhow, thought I'd rant about it a bit.