re: How much did you cheat in college?

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I don't think there was a class that I didn't cheat in. Graduated with honors; get on my level

My organic chemistry professor was smart as frick, but lazy as shite and a god awful teacher. I took the first exam of 5, made a low B. We get the exam back and I google one of the questions and I find the test bank, a test bank from the 2004 edition of some book (I took this class last year). For each of the following tests, I worked the problems in the bank for the chapters on the test multiple times (about 50-70 questions per chapter, 200+ total per test). People made like 40-50's, I made A's on everything else. Work smarter not harder.

A lot, we used to get copies of our tests from the Chinese company that printed the text book. It worked great for almost two years until some idiot told on everyone.

1 time

Long story short, i needed more time to complete a BS art history paper that was worth 50% of the total grade.

I knew our professor, a 50ish year old single fat cat lady, was completely technologically inept.

So I banged out 10 pages real quick like this
010100110100101010101010000011010100010101001000010100010*10010100101011
and sent it to her at the deadline.

After emailing back and forth for several days "trying" to figure out why our word processors were not compatible, she gave up and told me just to give it to her in person.

Bought me the time I needed.

My first time cheating was some computer programming class we had to take our 2nd semester. C program, old man professor talked like a frog. He would give out a sheet of paper with 3 or 4 questions on them for you to write the code out for. The questions were straight from the book, with maybe a few letters or numbers different that wouldnt' affect the outcome. He would then hand out about 10 pages of blank white peices of paper for us to write the code on.
We would write out every book question answer on blank sheets of paper and put them in a quick and easily accessible place in our bag and at some point take them out once the test started, then change the few variables he changed around, turn in the correct sheets, throw away the others. Easy 100.
Was a pointless class that we never used again in engineering.

Did plenty of cheating on homework, but that really does nothing for you when you go to take the tests, which is why most teachers didn't care if you cheated on homework b/c they'd get you on the tests. We'd study old tests but i don't think that's cheating. hell some of the teachers had old tests they'd give us to help us study. If a teacher puts a book question, or old test question that they know we have access to, then they didnt' care if we were actually learning anything.
I finished thermodynamics with an average below 60, which got me a C. i know more about thermo than i do about Dynamics, a class in which i got an A in. Gonthier made sure he tested your knowledge of the subject, not your memorization of homework problems.

I do know a guy that failed out of ME, somehow switched over to PE after we all graduated, befriended some nerd in one of his classes who was a computer hacker. They hacked into LSU's system and to their teachers computers so they would see the tests with answers that they were about to take. This idiot graduated with 3.7gpa in PE, and knew barely anythign about PE. He makes $500k/yr now and has been employed for a 6 years. I assumed he'd get hired on somewhere and his employee would realize real quick he knew nothing and fire him. Goes to show you how much college is really more about the experience than the actual education, and how little what you learn in college sometimes applies to your job.

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This was not my experience at all with ME 2334.

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was always told that, but wasn't the case when final grades came out with most teachers.
My last calc class, not sure which one it was, i think the 4th or 5th one you take in most engineering curriculum's, i was the only person in the class with an A. I had a 92 aveage going into the final, and made a 40 somethign on the final b/c it was the stupidest test i've ever taken. the guy handed out the exam and everyone in the class was like "what the frick is this". We actually had open conversations during the test with the teacher at how absurd the test was. that final dropped me to almost an 80 average, but still got an A.

I made a 7 on my first fluids test. 7 out of 100. The average for that test was a 21. 21 out of 100. Highest score was a 48. You think anyone finished the class above an 80? not a chance. we only took two tests and a final. You think no one got an A or B in the class?

Computer Science programming class back before the PC era. Foreign teacher couldn't speak English. Gave us a mid-term practice set that couldn't be completed (we had Computer Science majors trying to help us, turns out she gave us a bogus program from the start). She gave us all C's because everyone bitched. Final exam was going to decide the majority of our grade. Classmates were getting together to formally complain about the teacher to the school. I had a fraternity brother take the final for me. He was a CS major, the teacher sent her husband to give the final, I ended up with a B.

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