Rantage, Rantage, and more rantage...

[wolfie]

Lupo, do you get emails or anything from your classmates saying something like, "I couldn't make it to class today, can someone send me the notes?" too? I bet I get about 2 or 3 depending on the class every freakin day usually from the same people.

In your shoes, if I had the time I'd (after class) make up a second set of notes with key points deliberately wrong, and gladly give those ones out to the slackers.

Back when I was in school, if I suspected someone was copying from me on a test, I'd put a wrong answer, then go back later and change it. Unfortunately, on one test, I wasn't able to keep a straight face - otherwise 3 of the 4 people at one table would have been explaining to the teacher why they thought the 3 most common B vitamins were thiamine, niacin, and strychnine.

[videodrone]

Yeah, my education is the most important thing in the world to me and I don't take too kindly to slackers. Especially slackers who think they can use me to save their own skin.
I had a friend who was really focused on school, but then he joined the Student Council and just stopped going to class and studying. Test time came around in a class we had together and he wanted to study with me. I thought 'oh great. I can help him learn the material and at the same time reinforce it for me!'
No...all I ended up doing was help him learn the things I already knew and wasting precious time I should've spent on myself.

[Kogarashi]

Back when I was in school, if I suspected someone was copying from me on a test, I'd put a wrong answer, then go back later and change it. Unfortunately, on one test, I wasn't able to keep a straight face - otherwise 3 of the 4 people at one table would have been explaining to the teacher why they thought the 3 most common B vitamins were thiamine, niacin, and strychnine.

This reminds me of the one and only time I ever looked at someone else's answer during a quiz (back in 5th grade). We were taking a spelling quiz, and our teacher was notorious for not repeating words for the students. If you didn't hear her say it the three times you were on that word, then you were out of luck.

I'd gotten distracted trying to spell the previous word, and missed her calling out the next. I knew she wouldn't repeat the word for me, so I quickly spelled the next word when she said it, then glanced at my neighbor's paper to see what word I'd missed.

And saw that he'd misspelled it. So I spelled it correctly on my paper. Only time I've ever "cheated."


As for part of the OP, I wasn't a very good notetaker in college, so I often spent the class period doodling in my notebook instead. Still did well on the tests. ::thumbs up:: And I only ever asked my classmates for their notes when I'd well and truly missed a day and didn't even have my "mental copy" (no, not eidetic memory, but it really worked better keeping most of it in my head than attempting to scribble it all down). Of course, being an English major, more than half my classes were the type where notes weren't that useful.

And then there was Physical Science, with the teacher who posted all of his lecture powerpoint slides online, never deviated from them in class, and had no homework assignments. Ever. I spent the semester sleeping through that class at home and in my bed, because I could get away with it, and I still passed the class quite nicely. For the record, I hate science classes.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I've only cheated ONCE on a quiz, back in 4th grade. I hadn't studied my vocabulary for this quiz, and during the quiz itself, I was struggling hard. I ended up turning in a paper with only six out of twenty answers filled in, and of those six, I cheated for two of them, because I was so uncomfortable peeking at my notes.

And I got busted, too, one of my classmates saw me and told the teacher.

Never cheated again. I figured if I was gonna fail, I was gonna fail.