if my tests and finals were administered in that lax of an environment id prolly wanna cheat too. especially if its for some core curriculum class like government when im a bio major...i seriously wonder why im taking it cause i just cram it the night before and then forget it all the day after the test... that said, the only cheating i did this semester was peeking at other ppls papers to check my multiple choice answers sometimes. i dont have enough balls to actually take out my notes and papers during the test. to me thats just way too obvious and asking for it. but i guess im still a cheater either way
You sound like you cheated a good bit in college, and it's going to be a hard habit to drop. Doing all the leg work is just that -- going through the long and monotonous basics however irrevelant it is in the long run. I'm sure you will encounter that as a chemical engineer. Lucky for you, honesty and integrity mean close to nothing in today's corporate America.
Wow, I'm really shocked at how apparently widespread many of you guys make cheating seem at UT. I can't remember seeing anyone cheat in my four years of college (I didn't go to UT). I'm genuinely amazed. I'm the type of person that notices when shady things are going down, so I wouldn't miss it if it were this blatantly obvious.
Cheating is a big part of state colleges and party colleges. It's funny - I know several people from UH and a good number of people from UT, and while I'd say the UT people are probably sharper and quicker on their feet, their character comes nowhere near to the UH students.
I had Dietz for Latin American Politics Summer 2006, great class, but tough as hell - I think that's one of only 2 Bs I made in a Government class while at UT.
the funny thing is, i didn't cheat any all the way through high school and my freshman year at UT. maybe b/c i was competing with my best friend for valedictorian so it would've just been really wrong, but i just never really gave it much thought. then after a year the main group of us in ChE met and started having classes together and it just kinda started organically. it started with typing some stuff in our calculators for PChem essays, grew into a thermo class where the prof left all the quiz and test answers on the website (and we typed all those in), to the point that we were finding ways to actually pass long engineering solutions back and forth during tests so you could copy at your leisure (and we had an empty seat b/t us in those tests). one friend was so brazen that we were on the first row of a test with the prof actually in the front and he just straight stole one of my papers away and copied it and gave it back (i told him i would have had to straight up thrown him under the bus if he was caught, and he understood). it's amazing how it snowballed to the point that for any class we would figure out how we were going to cheat on its tests (some weren't possible) as if we were just figuring out where we going to sit for most of the year. we're all kind of amazed we went as far as we did and look back on it with equal parts pride, amazement, and humor and maybe even a little remorse. i think i broke the habit in grad school though. none of my friends went and the academic environment was a little more serious so "hey, wanna cheat off each other during the test" didn't seem like the best conversation starter. couldn't even get homework from people, that was rough. that's the thing, essentially everything from school was irrelevant for what we do as contractors for refineries. it's really amazing how little you know when you start. i have no problem learning (and i've done a lot in 6 months), i just don't like to learn stuff that won't mean anything later (that's where copying homework came in).
Cheating is the American Way. From sports to politics people cheat. You do what you gotta do. Anything to get ahead.
props to you for not cheating and doing it the right way shame on you for telling on other students and not minding your own business yes, they were wrong but I think it's b.s. to narc people out, especially when it isn't harming you.
just think about that when you think about how schools are looked at in terms of prestige, i went to a community college and then to UH and never cheated on a test, maybe plenty of people do it there but it was not my experience i was a double degree student in history and psychology, the ones i would see who were overly stressed about being in my history classes were the business students because theyhad to take a cutural elective
I took all my basic classes (govt, history, etc) at HCC and just graduated as ME last may. Does that consider as cheating? actually hcc might be a bit easier than cheating.
I don't think many people cheats at my school. In classroom tests, hell yeah, everybody cheats (well, not me) but in exams, I think everybody is just scared what would happen if they got caught.
Most of the tests I've taken make it seem like it would be hard to cheat. Some of my professors even allow students to use notes, book(s), calculators, etc., but depending on the material, they probably won't help that much. It would still be possible to cheat off others I guess, but there would usually be TAs walking around to make that difficult (plus you might have a seating chart and/or different exams). There might be others ways to cheat I guess, but I probably don't have the imagination to figure them out. Not sure if it counts as cheating, but the lab exams in the geology course I'm taking right now were pretty easy to "cheat" on. They'd give the exact same exam to students in every section, but the sections are divided from Monday through Friday. Anybody that had their class later in the week usually had a pretty good idea of what to "study" for if they had friends in other sections. Too bad my class meets on Tuesdays. BTW, this is all at UT if I didn't make that clear.
No, GEO 401 with Kocurek (although the labs combine lectures taught by Kocurek and Connelly). Actually, this class is probably the "easiest" to cheat in (besides the lab exams), not that I'm really tempted to do so (somewhat easy, except when professors decides to give us some bad questions).
