Never went to college, but I made pretty good coin writing papers for friends who did.<p>It's always been my understanding that virtually everyone cheats (doctors/non-computer engineers aside)
>It's always been my understanding that virtually everyone cheats<p>I'm sure it's prevalent in absolute numbers but I didn't and the vast majority of people I know in college didn't. I think it exists in pockets and specific environments but, it's like watching too many mafia movies and thinking every laundromat is a front.
Graduated with highest honors from a top engineering school and never once considered cheating
Don’t really understand how people even could cheat. In most of my classes the majority of the mark was in class paper midterm and paper final. Cheating on the take home assignments would only make you fail the midterm and final even harder.
Definitely the case in classes like that. Also a really obvious sign if you ace homeworks and get a 40% on an exam.<p>In my CS program, I ended up having at least half the grade be from projects and labs that I watched so many people cheat on. I'll even consider being the dead-weight in a group a form a cheating, but maybe that's too far.<p>Those same folks really struggled during interviews in their last semester (this was during a very friendly job market). I imagine that the majority of them are also dead weight on their teams these days.<p>It's a shame. You're cheating yourself of your own education, which can be quite expensive here in the US.
that's what I did. I could usually pull out a C on the final exam. That is certainly something I would do differently now, as a non-teenager.<p>I never cheated on exams or papers or projects but I would use solution sets for homework, which was always a small completion grade
Have you heard of cheat sheets? Or looking at your neighbor during exam? Passing pieces of paper?
Many of my tests after a certain point were open book, or at least explicitly allowed a cheat sheet.<p>It wasn't going to help you if you didn't know the material, though writing the cheat sheet in the first place is a pretty good form of studying.
We made grids of tiny dots on an eraser, so tiny a grownup couldn't really see it.<p>End of the year a teacher asked how we did it. He knew our answers were the same, he put us far apart, he watched us the whole time every test, the whole year.<p>We asked for an eraser then someone "random" would throw it then asked for it te be returned when they needed it again.<p>I pointed at a tiny dot on the eraser. Roughly 3x2 mm. There, that was the last test. He couldn't see it.
No, most people don't cheat. The world would fall apart if they did.<p>In a lot of occupations the skills you learn in college are real and meaningful. If you don't have the skills, you can't do the job. You can't fake it 'till you make it if it's painfully obvious to your coworkers that you don't understand basic concepts.
Guess I was a sucker because I didn't cheat.<p>Much was learned today.
> 's always been my understanding that virtually everyone cheats<p>Not true. The "have someone else writing my work" is rather massive level of cheating and not at all a routine thing everyone does.
In my experience the biggest cheaters were foreign exchange students who saw the six month to year stateside studies as a mere opportunity to have fun and pretend to study.