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Anon Goes to College
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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
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You can pass using them, sure. But you can't be anywhere near cum laude. I teach college kids, it's easy to tell when someone's mindlessly writing shit.
Yeah, I was cum laude(3.8) and I didnt read almost anything from my breadth classes. What I did was kinda funny. Lets say I needed to write a paper where i needed to use a certain amount of quotes from a book. What i would actually do is prewrite everything and leave blank spaces for quotes, then I would turn to random pages, scan through to see if something looks like it matches what I am saying and bada bing it into my paper. The funny part is when I get my criticism back and the professor/TAs say it was insightful or some shit.
I think in my years as a student, i only read the textbooks for my major and thats it. (Thats aside from all the research papers I had to pour over ofcourse) Nowadays with gpt kids in these humanitarian type courses do even lazier shit. I have personally seen people ask GPT to write sentence by sentence for english composition essays so it doesnt get detected.
I didnt even cheat my major shit though. I know personally of many people in frats who held onto past exams.. they didnt even bother trying to read the book, they just tried to memorize the problems/solution key. It was actually quite frustrating as they would be driving up the curve.
I guess humanities can be different then. I teach STEM students, and here you definitely need to understand what you're doing.
Yeah I was originally talking about the post but as I said I was in stem and cheating still happens. It just depends on certain courses and how new the professors are in the system. Lets say I was studying for physical chemistry. I knew for 100% sure that there were students that cheated for everything because we had a tenured professor who had a known cycle of using tests from 4 years back. The (theta tau? I dont remember) frat also coincidentally had a catalogue of the last 10+ years worth of tests for that major. As fate had it, half the class had perfect scores on their exams and homework.
Wish I had a professor like that when I was undergrad lol. Bastards made up new problems every single time. Can't even find them online later. Assignment problems were even harder.
Yeah maybe I was lucky? I guess I can only use limited experience as an example but I was a fucking nerd so yeah.