Cheating in Undergrad

Acie Law cheated in my class, but that's a story for a rainy day...

 

Vince Young NEVER showed up to class. Student athletes get hooked UP!

I feel bad for the OP though. I cheated in college, I could see why you'd feel a bit slighted. Does it really matter though? It's not like any of the crap I learned, I apply to work. It was just a way for me to get that diploma and move on with my life.

 

Are old exams from previous semesters considered cheating? Is it our fault that the profs are too lazy and recycle questions?

 

I cheated a lot in high school but never once in college. was way to afraid to and I respected the professors a lot more.

 

I didn't notice to much cheating at all when it came down to exams. In college its not really worth it...

Now of course there was hey let me copy your homework but thats everywhere...

High school there was massive cheating and really most teachers didnt even care I always thought that was odd..

 

I would say this is not cheating, and I definitely write new exams, or use questions from long ago with new twists. ... And I do mean twists. heh

I am kind of like a nazi, but I'm sure people still cheat in my larger lecture classes.

 

A lot of my professors have always gave my classes access to old exams.

 

In the work world, asking for help is usually considered a good thing.

 

I guess it depends. I draw the line at cheating on tests, plagiarism, that kind of thing, but I remember in my Corp. Taxation class my roommate and I would always work together on the assigned tax returns, which I'm pretty sure we were supposed to work on individually.

 

I've heard some interesting cheating stories from when I worked at a university.

There was one case where five students would sit in a row for a test in an engineering class that had five problems. Each student would work on one problem, and then they'd pass their test sheet to the next student who was working on a different problem. That student would write the answer to their problem on the other student's test. In the end, the five students would only have had to complete one problem in the entire testing period, then copy the answer down five times on five different tests.

 

I had to take three semesters of a foreign language for my undergrad so I chose Spanish. I had the same professor for all three courses. Imagine being taught a class by your cute, sweet old aunt. That's what this lady was like. Anyway, I was taking the final for part II and during this final our part II class was taking the final in the same room as her part III group. Unknowingly, she had passed out an extra copy of the part III exam that I discreetly swiped.

Needless to say, once it became time to take the part III final I knew exactly what was coming. In hindsight, I feel bad now. Not only due to the ethical aspect of all this, but one of my goals in life is to become fluent in another language. It's safe to say I cheated myself in more ways than one.

 

My wife never cheated ever in HS, Undergrad, or MBA school. She always made unreal grades. But I think she is in like the 1% of people who don't cheat.

 

In the work world, if you don't know what you're doing, you get fired.



Well... usually....

 

I never cheated in school.

I know a ton of people who did.

I never snitched.

They didn't end up benefiting from it though because eventually the lazy, dishonest, and stupid get weeded out in life.

 

i actually have a friend who is a pathological cheater... i certainly tell him to stop but i have yet to tell an authority figure that he cheats. I should, but I won't because even though it is the "right thing' to do, I wouldnt feel good about it

 

Never cheated on tests or at all in college. In high school, I normally had a friend fax me copies of his math homework.

Cheating? Yes. However, I learned way more by getting his homework because I'd always try to do it first on my own and then use his to catch mistakes and help me understand the problems I couldn't figure out on my own. I honestly think I learned more that way.

 

I cheated my way through beginner's Spanish, because I'm just god-awful at vocab memorization. Never cheated in anything else though.

And in other classes, it never bothered me much when people cheated. If they don't know their crap, it will come back to bite them later. If they do, then they shouldn't have been forced to take the class in the first place, right?