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NewYorkBuck
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I know of two students who turned in the same exact history paper for the same exact class, but they had two different TAs. Just as alarming - one paper received a B, the other an A-.
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BuckBackHome
Wolverine is largest member of weasel family
A girl I was in grad school with was convinced the Prof. was out to get her (She had her undergrad from Harvard and did not know what a B was). At one point she wrote two papers on the same topic and had a classmate turn one of them in. The classmate's "paper" received an A and she received a B. She confirmed the Prof was out to get her but was stuck as she could not admit to cheating.
I had a pen in grade school with a little window in it. As you clicked the top the paper behind the window would rotate. I used it for some formulas in a science class and it was pretty handy.
I do recall of a senior in high school (I was only a freshman at the time) who was pretty creative with his cheating. One of his tricks was to keep a crib sheet in one hand and it was attached to a string that went up the sleeve of his shirt. He somehow had it rigged so that if he raised his opposite hand the crib sheet would slide up his sleeve. If the teacher ever left her desk, which she only did once a class, he would simply raise his hand and the sheet was gone. The funny thing was the kid was very bright and did it more for the challenge than because he needed to cheat.
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scott91575
Resident hater
I somehow created matter in chem lab. It was amazing. Something about that place always defied the laws of nature.
As for the chem labs, I think there was one guy that actually did them decades ago, and the same ones have been copied every year since.
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sandgk
Watson, Crick & A Twist
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=alt2 style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: 1px inset; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px inset">Originally Posted by MolGenBuckeye
There were also labs like that at OSU. If I recall correctly, most of the OChem labs limited some of the reagents:
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Amusing aside - one of the Lab Managers, not a faculty member, was allowed to set one library task each year. He had us all running round the "stacks" generating background information on forensic analyses. Specifically that needed to identify when someone was making certain materials of recreational abuse. Which of course means you need to determine the range of methods available, their yields, precursors, intermediates and by-products. Numerous literature search requests were made, which eventually alerted the boys in blue. He got a visit from the Metro Drug squad and the whole project was set aside, everyone was given an automatic high mark.
Of couse before this happened several of us managed to find the highest yield, cleanest procedure, for what was then one of the most highly valued of these recreational materials (UK pounds per gram). The method came from the then Czech Republic. None of us of course actually put that method into practice (aside from legality, you would need vacuum lines and a couple of other delicate pieces of equipment).
Three years later while finishing my doctoral work there was a widely reported raid of a lab making the lysergide derivative. The officers entering the lab, built into a Welsh Croft, reported that the purity of the siezed material was extraordinarily high. They "wondered" if this had anything to do with the strange glassware, linked to a vacuum pump, with cryogenic coolers for the reaction vessels.
They might have wondered - personally, I had no doubts.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=alt2 style="BORDER-RIGHT: 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: 1px inset; BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px inset">Originally Posted by MolGenBuckeye
There were also labs like that at OSU. If I recall correctly, most of the OChem labs limited some of the reagents:
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Not in the mid 1990s.
Amusing aside - one of the Lab Managers, not a faculty member, was allowed to set one library task each year. He had us all running round the "stacks" generating background information on forensic analyses. Specifically that needed to identify when someone was making certain materials of recreational abuse. Which of course means you need to determine the range of methods available, their yields, precursors, intermediates and by-products. Numerous literature search requests were made, which eventually alerted the boys in blue. He got a visit from the Metro Drug squad and the whole project was set aside, everyone was given an automatic high mark.
Of couse before this happened several of us managed to find the highest yield, cleanest procedure, for what was then one of the most highly valued of these recreational materials (UK pounds per gram). The method came from the then Czech Republic. None of us of course actually put that method into practice (aside from legality, you would need vacuum lines and a couple of other delicate pieces of equipment).
Three years later while finishing my doctoral work there was a widely reported raid of a lab making the lysergide derivative. The officers entering the lab, built into a Welsh Croft, reported that the purity of the siezed material was extraordinarily high. They "wondered" if this had anything to do with the strange glassware, linked to a vacuum pump, with cryogenic coolers for the reaction vessels.
They might have wondered - personally, I had no doubts.
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stxbuck
Woody wore Sambas
One, for an Arab Studies class at OSU, I made up an entire interview w/ a Kuwaiti citizen and got an A on it. I found a guy to interview, but he bagged out at the last minute and I needed to make up something at the last minute.
At the HS I teach at, some kids have been caught putting answers on their iPods and listening to them during the test.
At the HS I teach at, some kids have been caught putting answers on their iPods and listening to them during the test.
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TheStoicPaisano
But I didn't, so it doesn't
^I did that for a communications class last quarter. We were supposed to interview someone who was somehow involved with the War in Iraq, and write a feature story on them.
I just made up some names and recounted stories I was told by a couple uncles who'd been in the National Guard. Any specifics about the military I just found on Wikipedia. Easy A on the paper.
I just made up some names and recounted stories I was told by a couple uncles who'd been in the National Guard. Any specifics about the military I just found on Wikipedia. Easy A on the paper.
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NewYorkBuck
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What have we come to that we allow ipods during a test! Good grief.
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BuckeyeTillIDie
The North Remembers
to borrow an old adage from the adult swim boards..
chemistry is teh suck
chemistry is teh suck
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Turnitin.com also catches that and attempts to turn in papers from previous years or papers that are substantially the same as previous years (but essentially copied with a few word changes).
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Next time a Harvard MBA tells you he graduated with mostly A's, you can yawn. Over 70% of people in every class get an A.
As for iPods, can you bring those into an exam venue now? Certainly not allowed here. Nothing but two no.2 pencils, a ruler and the approved calculator for math-based classes.
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NewYorkBuck
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No one from Harvard MBA would probably say anything like that though. Grades are really downplayed in MBA school. At Columbia, we didnt even get traditional grades - they were "H" for honors, "HP" for high pass, "P" for pass, etc. Almost everyone got H or HP. The idea is that if they let you in, you are smart enough to do the work, ie, they couldnt have possibly made a mistake on you. To fail out of a top B-school, you'd have to really really try at it - like not show up to any classes or exams. In the end - B-school is all about getting a job and networking. Grades are somewhat of an afterthought.
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