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inspired by AI thread - did you cheat in college?
Posted on 5/14/25 at 9:57 am
Posted on 5/14/25 at 9:57 am
i kinda did 
while technically not cheating because calculators were allowed at the time, the casio graphing calculator had just come out and it had 2 features none of the others did; ability to store small blocks of text (more trouble to type that in than just learn the material) and the killer feature; the ability to generate a graph.
in calc 1500/1501/1550 (i think those were the numbers) if there was a graph i had to draw on a test and i wasn't 100% sure i understood how it worked visually; i could plug in the calc equation and it would create it so i was able to replicate it on paper.
eta i still had that thing until very recently. it finally disappeared in one of our moves along with that damn calculus tome i carried around with me for 40 years after college.
while technically not cheating because calculators were allowed at the time, the casio graphing calculator had just come out and it had 2 features none of the others did; ability to store small blocks of text (more trouble to type that in than just learn the material) and the killer feature; the ability to generate a graph.
in calc 1500/1501/1550 (i think those were the numbers) if there was a graph i had to draw on a test and i wasn't 100% sure i understood how it worked visually; i could plug in the calc equation and it would create it so i was able to replicate it on paper.
eta i still had that thing until very recently. it finally disappeared in one of our moves along with that damn calculus tome i carried around with me for 40 years after college.
This post was edited on 5/14/25 at 9:59 am
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Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:00 am to CAD703X
No but I helped people cheat. It was pretty much impossible to cheat on higher level engineering stuff but for the electives, yeah lots of peeking over and pencil tapping
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:00 am to CAD703X
i mean i used a calculator like you mentioned, kind of hard to cheat other than that. but my ti89 had programs on it for sure that helped.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:00 am to CAD703X
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did you cheat in college?
Had to take foreign language during covid….
Thanks google translate. You the real MVP
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:00 am to CAD703X
I can't remember cheating in a traditional sense
I definitely cheated in the "showed up in class to see people ready to hand in assignment and left to rush to university medical center with an onset of illness" sense
I definitely cheated in the "showed up in class to see people ready to hand in assignment and left to rush to university medical center with an onset of illness" sense
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:03 am to CAD703X
I operated in the grey area that was Jai
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:04 am to Pettifogger
i had a friend (who is a doctor now) 
who was a master at cheating.
he would go into the classroom the night before a test armed with pieces of clear tape he had written all manner of notes on and tape them to the desk he was going to sit at.
he also taped these to his cuffs so he could read his cuffs during exams and not look remotely suspicious.
who was a master at cheating. he would go into the classroom the night before a test armed with pieces of clear tape he had written all manner of notes on and tape them to the desk he was going to sit at.
he also taped these to his cuffs so he could read his cuffs during exams and not look remotely suspicious.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:05 am to CAD703X
I sold papers
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:05 am to Ingeniero
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No but I helped people cheat. It was pretty much impossible to cheat on higher level engineering stuff but for the electives, yeah lots of peeking over and pencil tapping
yea not sure how you really cheat much in the high level engineering courses. even calculators with programs only help so much.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:07 am to CAD703X
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did you cheat in college?
Very minimally, if at all.
I found college easier than high school for the most part (obvious hard classes aside).
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:07 am to Ingeniero
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No but I helped people cheat. It was pretty much impossible to cheat on higher level engineering stuff but for the electives, yeah lots of peeking over and pencil tapping
I had a pen click/pencil tap system where they'd click/tap out the question number and I'd click/tap the multiple choice answer.
Served me flawlessly from middle school through college.
Havent thought about it in years
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:07 am to CAD703X
No, I didn’t cheat. My classes were small and it was mostly essays with questions you didn’t know before hand.
The final exam question for one of my philosophy classes was:
Could Mick Jagger live in Wittgenstein’s world?
Poli Sci majors who needed an upper level humanities class but thought they were too good to attend class, were sweating bullets. This was the early 2000s, some kids didn’t know who Mick Jagger was. metaphysics - gotta love it.
The final exam question for one of my philosophy classes was:
Could Mick Jagger live in Wittgenstein’s world?
Poli Sci majors who needed an upper level humanities class but thought they were too good to attend class, were sweating bullets. This was the early 2000s, some kids didn’t know who Mick Jagger was.
metaphysics - gotta love it. 
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:08 am to CAD703X
We were allowed to use the Ti 81 (I think that was the number), which you could save a lot on it. However, we were always required to show them a wiped memory screen when entering for exams.
I think I wrote some stuff down on an expanded rubber band one time, and wore it on my wrist. Just looks like blue dots when not expanded
Don’t recall if I actually used it that test
Definitely Cheated on some homework and lab stuff
I think I wrote some stuff down on an expanded rubber band one time, and wore it on my wrist. Just looks like blue dots when not expanded
Don’t recall if I actually used it that test
Definitely Cheated on some homework and lab stuff
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:10 am to CAD703X
I got old tests from people that had already taken the class a few times. Not sure that's actually cheating though.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:11 am to nes2010
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I got old tests from people that had already taken the class a few times. Not sure that's actually cheating though.
Fraternity exam archive FTW
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:11 am to Ingeniero
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No but I helped people cheat.
It is better to cheat than repeat.
When in doubt, let your eyes roam about.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:13 am to CAD703X
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in calc 1500/1501/1550 (i think those were the numbers)
1550, 1552 and 2057.
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:15 am to CAD703X
My HP 48 was filled with all kinds of helpful information.
ETA: the irony of inputting your calculator of class info, you end of learning it.
ETA: the irony of inputting your calculator of class info, you end of learning it.
This post was edited on 5/14/25 at 10:19 am
Posted on 5/14/25 at 10:18 am to CAD703X
No, but I let others cheat off of me.
I let a dude cheat off of me in one of the higher level physics classes. I dropped out that semester. A year later I was on a turnaround as a pipefitter and the dude who cheated off of me was one of the field engineers who got to sit in the A/C most of the day
I let a dude cheat off of me in one of the higher level physics classes. I dropped out that semester. A year later I was on a turnaround as a pipefitter and the dude who cheated off of me was one of the field engineers who got to sit in the A/C most of the day
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