re: inspired by AI thread - did you cheat in college?

i had an isreali named...tsaferi maybe?...for linear algebra

we would spend weeks working on the same problem in class but he would derail the lecture by telling us crazy-arse stories of being held hostage at gunpoint and other shite that happened to him in his life.

me and this one other girl would study together; she was WAAAAAAY smarter than me but somehow i convinced her we could help each other

i remember clearly the day before the final which was FIFTY PERCENT OF OUR GRADE we were trying to study in the union when she looked up at me with tears in her eyes and said "i have no idea what any of this is".

teacher had not taught us a thing but to copy his notes and we had no clue how to prepare for the final.

the next day we go into class and sure enough, it might as well have been chinese. i look over at her and she grabs her test, walks up to the teacher's desk and just drops it and walks out.

my pride wouldn't let me do that so i just wrote random equations and shite on the paper so at least the test looked like someone worked on it.

COMPLETE bullshite. i didnt have the first clue how to solve those problems but i filled up all the white space on those 3 pages

anyway, he left for israel the next day so we couldn't confront him...but she got an F in the class...and I got a B.

so unfair because she had a much better grade going into that final than i did.

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COMPLETE bullshite. i didnt have the first clue how to solve those problems but i filled up all the white space on those 3 pages

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One of my earliest classes was an English class and the prof assigned us to read a particular book review.

The next day when we showed up it as a 'pop quiz' - we had to write a synopsis of what was in the book review.

I had not even looked at it - but wrote some bullshite about what I thought it may have been about.

Nobody had read the review - everyone got a big fat ZERO - I got an F to the 3rd power - LOL.

Not in college, but yes in high school Spanish. I’d write all the words on a small piece of paper and place it in my glasses case. Anytime I was stuck, I’d open up my glasses case, put on my glasses, get the answer, and put the case away. The next time I was stuck, I’d pull out the case, put my glasses away, get the answer and put the case away. Rinse and repeat.

I never cheated in college or high school. I probably should have in college. But in high school, lots of people cheated off me. One particular class, German, the teacher was fully aware of what was going on, the people next to me were copying, and the people next to them were copying them, essentially half the class copying me.... and he gave me a disappointing look, and I gave him a look back like "what do you want me to do about it? :shoulder shrug: "

Straight A's in foreign language for 4 years. In high school I was straight A's in pretty much everything, except math, and then it depended on the teacher. I'd make an A in one math class, then a C in the next, math wasn't intuitive to me so my success in the subject greatly depended on the quality of the teacher.



ETA- the algebra class I made a C, the teacher was fricking one of the football players. This was before this stuff was headline news and it all got swept under the rug. She wasn't there to teach, she was there to frick.

I would write some of the accounting formulas on my quad when we went into that computer testing center by.. the quad

Yes. Used wolfram alpha during a math test and it almost got me kicked out of school. Was a stressful time haha.

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i was a GDI so can someone confirm for me if the frat houses kept file cabinets full of test banks for every class?

at least thats what was told to us poor, unwashed GDIs

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I wasn't in a frat either, but I knew some sorority girls that would hook me up with access to their test banks.

My UGA transcript says no…

Back in 82 when I was a freshman, I was taking accounting 101 and copied some of the homework from a friend's workbook. I went home for a weekend and my father, who had a PHD in accounting and had taught accounting at OU and Memphis State, asked to see my workbook. He looked at it for a few minutes and said, "You copied this". I was surprised, so I asked him, "How do you know that?" He said...there aren't enough erasure marks. I told him, "Thanks for the tip". He wasn't very happy with that answer!

Not in college. Senior year in high school I became the president of the Spanish Club. I never took Spanish but the teacher who was in charge of the club was fresh out of college and hot. By the second month she asked why were conducting meetings in Spanish. Gave a BS answer and then started doing them in Spanish. We did, I didn't understand much but never got called out. I learned a little, I guess, from movies.