<p>Well just wondering if some of the rumors I heard are true. Switching numbered pins on lab practicals? Misleading students to the wrong classroom? My friend stated he witnessed some of this at Cornell. If this is true I am very disappointed? Are there honest people in Cornell? How fustrating! Have any of you witnessed this? Any blatant cheating? I bet there are some pretty complicated covert operations (maybe within Greek systems?)</p>
<p>I’ve never seen even one of the things you mentioned. If anything, I thought there was TOO MUCH cooperation. Everyone I ever met was incredibly willing to help anyone who asked. </p>
<p>As far as cheating, it does happen. In my computer class, two kids handed in almost identical code and failed the assignment as punishment. I know in the Greek system, they have libraries of all the old tests from any class. That’s about the extent of cheating I know of. Oh people copy homework some too.</p>
<p>I’ve never seen any of this. Maybe somebody got directions wrong when giving them, but I think you friend is BS’ing you.</p>
<p>I’ve never saw any of that when I was a student.</p>
<p>i’ve heard of students bringing in fax machines and faxing each other while they are taking a test.</p>
<p>I was under the impression they morse-coded each other.</p>
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<p>I seriously hope this is sarcasm. Otherwise epic fail of an idea. </p>
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<li>fax machines make a LOT of noise. They make noise when you load the paper, they make noise when they connect to the dial-in, they make noise when they print confirmation sheets, and they make noise when they print the actual faxed documents.</li>
<li>fax machines require a connection to a phone line, and how many free phone sockets exist in Cornell classroms?</li>
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<p>I think it was meant to be an obvious jab at sarcasm which you then went to too great of lengths to dismiss…</p>
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<p>most students don’t understand the logistics behind actual fax machines. I’m sure some could have used a refresher course.</p>
<p>it was indeed sarcasm lol</p>
<p>there was one dood who borrowed all the notes from the library the a few days befored the Gen chem exam and didn’t return it until like 36 hours after teh test ended. (its reference so you can’t borrow it that long) i heard the professor got very ****ed. he wanted to find out who it was from teh library so he can F him but the library couldn’t release the name since it was confidential =. the library called teh kids mother and explained the wrongdoings of the kid and the mother responded with “ok so how much is the fine”</p>
<p>Well I was under the impression that my source was reliable. He might have had those experiences but his may be uncharacteristic. That is a comfort to me. LOL Cornellians use fax machines? LOL Well I heard the kids at Columbia use telepathy. Cornell kids need to get with the new cheating techniques! ;)</p>
<p>I haven’t seen it.
(when I first saw this thread I got visions of violent crime.)
however thinking of some individuals I met in life, I wouldn’t be totally flabbergasted if at least some of what you heard was accurate. directing to the wrong room, for example, because some people seem to just like being mean, getting vague revenge on the world. kinda impossible to generalize about 13000+ people, you know?</p>
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<p>OMG! yes! i forgot about this…some professors put on reserve the TAKENOTE that’s offered for the course (NO NOT ALL PROFESSORS DO THIS) </p>
<p>and sometimes students check them out and you cant get them >_></p>
<p>Here’s the worst thing I ever did: I was in a very small upper level physics class with only about 9 kids. And two of the students were working out one of the homework problems on the board before class started. HW was only 4 questions, so each question was worth a good deal. </p>
<p>So they were working it out together (and they collaborated with about 4-5 of the other students as well) and their work was completely wrong. Going from what they did, they were making a huge mistake and would surely get the answer wrong.</p>
<p>So I just sat there and didn’t correct them. I know, so bad. But that’s the worst “backstabbing” I ever engaged in.</p>
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<p>i dont consider that backstabbing…unless you also benefited from their work previously…</p>
<p>haha this topic comes up once in a while in discussions at Cornell. Even in my psychology section. Every time, people always think Cornell students can be over competitive, but then someone mentions Johns Hopkins and their incidents and everyone feels better.</p>
<p>oooh now that i think about it…i heard that some student slept with his/her TA and got the answers to a prelim/final?</p>
<p>the truth came out and **** hit the fan! </p>
<p>anyone know what really happened?</p>
<p>i drank someone’s product for the orgo lab practical - it was delicious</p>
<p>I don’t think backstabbing happens often but cheating happens. The best thing you can do is rely on yourself. Don’t be the person who copies homework or asks for notes frequently. It gets annoying.</p>