"The team was asked to pump the fuel out of their car," he said. "They left 15 litres in the tank and told us it was empty.
I'm glad to see that cheaters didn't win this time. It reminds of how our high school administrators had no backbone. A bunch of kids got caught cheating on homework a few times, and nobody ever did a damn thing about it. Probably fear of getting a lawsuit from an unhappy parent, worried about their kid's future. They were still members of the National Honor Society. Made me really appreciate being a member of that. Not.
I guess that's another reason why I always thought GPA was more or less irrelevant. On one occasion, I had a borderline grade in my 10th grade english class and got shafted, because of a class participation score. It was ridiculous, because I contributed more than all but one student, the nemesis. I got 0/8, while the girl sitting next to me got an 8/8 and she was a mute! On another occasion, I got a B despite having a 90+% test/homework average in my AP Physics class. We used to get credit for putting HW assignments up on the board, and people would literally run to the class, in order to get there first. How messed up was that?
Interestingly enough, I once got accused of cheating on a program in college. It was my very first CS class, a 1 credit "Intro to C" class that I took because I placed out of the first 2 intro programming classes. The homework was so Mickey Mouse that I didn't read it properly. I probably finished the damn thing in under 15 minutes and went back to working on Organic Chemistry. In the end, the prof took my word for it, and I still failed the assignment for not reading & following directions. Doh! She had wanted all the headers and comments in a very specific format and I thought those were just "guidelines".
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction...
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I share your hatred for cheaters, and had some similar experiences. In college physics, I skipped every single lecture (I would walk in, drop off my homework, and walk out) and most of the recitations since the syllabus was clear on the assignments. I was then surprised to get an A- in the class, so I went to talk to the professor and to my surprise and shock, my recitation instructor WAS the professor. I had never attended a lecture so I had no idea that the guy I was walking out on was my prof. Anyway, he said I got the A- for an extreme lack of participation.
It was probably worth it- I had just gotten Half-Life and really wanted to play that game. In the next physics class I went all out on an assignment and produced this beautifully laid out publication for a class with illustrations and everything. I still got called in and accused of plagiarism. Fortunately I was able to demonstrate my sources, all correctly attributed (embarrasingly, some of them were children's books on physics, much better illustrations), and I was able to submit the paper.
Posted by Nick | May 6, 2005 7:04 AM
Posted on May 6, 2005 07:04
This happened to me in college physics. I had skipped every lecture that quarter, but I was getting around a 94% in the class so I felt ok with not going. When grades came around I saw that I got an A- and when I went to see the professor, to my extreme horror I found that he was the guy who led my recitation section. I had skipped about half of those and would leave early after completing quizzes, so I knew that I was screwed. He told me that if I had answered a single question on the board, I would have gotten my A.
Posted by Nick | June 21, 2005 8:48 AM
Posted on June 21, 2005 08:48