<p>5</a> Infuriating Things Nobody Tells You About College | Cracked.com</p>
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<p>With all of that being said, that list is completely accurate.</p>
<p>I think everyone basically knows this. Only one I’d disagree with is number 1. If you go to a top 50 school or so, most professors are in the top of their fields.</p>
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<p>Hehe. Looks like I found one.</p>
<h1>1 is just outlining an unfortunate incident in 2007. It doesn’t really happen. You don’t see V-tech trying to cover up it’s massacres. Columbia didn’t try to cover up its drug ring. USC couldn’t really do ■■■ about its frat boy having sex on a roof.</h1>
<h1>5 is just not true. there are some horrible teachers, but it’s mostly the students who can’t learn, not teachers who can’t teach.</h1>
<h1>2 is iffy. A lot of gray area there.</h1>
<p>Agree with everything else.</p>
<p>These are given.</p>
<h1>5: I’ve had that old, English, cool, wisdom-imparting professor with the perfect jacket! But he only teaches upper division classes, and yeah, a lot of lower division classes are either taught by grad students (one of my favorite professors was a grad student, on a Fulbright Scholarship) or people who obviously drew lots for the job.</h1>
<h1>4: Yes. The greatest offense at my school is pandering to the donors at the expense of decency.</h1>
<h1>3: I love the ND comment. I can picture our administration paying for a big name advertiser just to have them throw up a few bad comments on Cracked. Good job, guys.</h1>
<h1>2: Depends on what kind of cheating. Have I shared answers for online quizzes with friends from the same class? Yeah, and I’m sure the professor knows we did, given that they were just online quizzes meant mostly for practice. Do I know many people who would cheat on a test? No, though I’ve seen essay plagiarism a few times.</h1>
<h1>1: Yes. According to what a varsity athlete friend of mine told me, there are multiple incidents of the university suppressing rape charges to protect members of the football team. A football player allegedly raped a female basketball player, and the athletic department allegedly strong-armed her (using her scholarship and standing as leverage) to get her not to press charges, though she eventually left the school. A group of football players allegedly raped a girl at our sister school (it’s right next to our campus and run by the same organization), and after no one in the administration listened to her, she killed herself. It’s a goddamned disgrace.</h1>
<p>Number 1 is definitely true. I know someone who works as a campus police officer at a top school, and that school had a prostitution and drug ring that was discovered earlier in the year. It was a huge scandal on campus, but it didn’t get out.</p>
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<li><p>This is why I’m glad I go to a school without a large graduate population, but yeah there are TAs, that’s why doing some independent reading if you have time is important.</p></li>
<li><p>That’s fairly obvious. My school likes to brag about how much money the textbook rental system saves, but what they don’t mention is that the cost of the rental program is added to tuition, and it ain’t pocket change either.</p></li>
<li><p>Oh THAT’S why Wake Forest waved my application fee and offered to compensate my travel costs if I visited (which is hilarious because I live very close to Wake, so they would have compensated me for like $3 worth of gas.) </p></li>
<li><p>That’s pretty much another given. This isn’t high school where the teacher will see you looking at your phone in the second row. In those huge lecture halls of course some people are going to get away with it. And I don’t think it’s really ‘stealing data’ in academia, not every faculty member is going to sit there and research and then write every lesson on their own. Sharing is caring.</p></li>
<li><p>My school is actually very open about this. There was a robbery off campus nearby and we were all alerted through the texting and e-mail system. The annual crime report is avalible on the University Police’s front page, along with a little blotter of recent arrests (The most common entries are “[Name of a freshman dorm] - Student arrested for underage alcohol use”)</p></li>
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<p>Jesus christ #1 is messed up. It should be a twenty year felony for whoever’s in charge of that stuff to suppress information.</p>
<p>“You don’t see V-tech trying to cover up it’s massacres. Columbia didn’t try to cover up its drug ring. USC couldn’t really do ■■■ about its frat boy having sex on a roof.”</p>
<p>1) It’s hard to cover up the murder of 32 people</p>
<p>2) Drug ring? ****, kids are buying and selling weed and adderall all the time at pretty much every school.</p>
<p>3) Hardly a crime</p>
<p>the second user was just flat out annoying</p>
<p>cracked.com is an interesting read for me in various topics, I looked at the 19 other things topic too but overall I believe they can do a better job and expand on their college section material</p>
<p>I for one would love to read about social life and partying in college as I go to a commuter school right now and would like to know what I am missing out on.</p>
<p>I saw this. I feel like it’s referring to the vast majority of colleges, rather than the ivies. It’s supposed to be relevant to the common person. So, with that said, he’s also spent quite a bit of time talking about the TAs rather than the teachers themselves. Im pretty sure that professors at colleges aren’t just looking for a job during a time of recession.</p>
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<p>whoa, which school is this???</p>
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<p>At least they broke up the ring right? Not engage in any cover-up like that EMU incident? They’d be shooting themselves in the foot if they bragged about it to the media or local authorities.</p>
<p>yeah I’d like it if people named names when they tell stories about this stuff.</p>
<p>My first year of college was at a small Catholic school and every time there was a crime on campus they would always e-mail the report to us. I agree with number two I can’t tell you how many people I saw cheating in my chem class. It was so obvious to. For #5, I believe only one professor used a power point and I only had 2 GAs for the labs. All my other classes were taught by professors who had PhDs. Some of them were good and some of them were bad. </p>
<p>“You don’t see V-tech trying to cover up it’s massacres. Columbia didn’t try to cover up its drug ring. USC couldn’t really do ■■■ about its frat boy having sex on a roof.”</p>
<p>I agree with thismortalsoil, plus Columbia is an ivy and will have applicants regardless of crime.</p>
<p>UMD does a good job of emailing and texting us about crimes on and off campus. We even got an alert for a kidnapping/carjacking that didn’t even involve a student and was like three quarters of a mile off-campus.</p>
<p>That said, I’m fairly certain some stuff is covered up. There HAVE to be a certain number of sexual assaults each year (sad that I can’t have more faith in my fellow man) but I’ve never heard of a student getting sent to prison for rape.</p>
<p>Not sure how to quote but the football rape-suicide sounds like it happened at/near Notre Dame. That’s only my guess because I follow college football pretty closely and I read about something that sounded very much like that happening there not too long ago.</p>
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Yeah. I mean, it’s all hearsay and nothing was proven, but in the case of the girl who killed herself, I don’t think she was making it up. I actually knew a guy who was friends with a lot of the football players, and he said that it wasn’t true, that the girl was mentally unstable, regretted her decisions, lashed out, then killed herself. However, he was friends with the players, and thus more likely to defend them. I don’t find it so hard to believe, either in the case of the rape (especially if they were drunk) or even the refusal to pursue it in the administration.</p>
<p>General crime is very well reported; we have an alert system and get emails every time someone so much as jumps off a bike, grabs someone’s junk, jumps back on the bike, and rides away. Or if “a student was forcibly fondled at a social gathering.” There are regular on- and off-campus crime reports and the university seems to have no problem promptly reporting it… unless it’s the football team (allegedly). Every publicized one I can think of (Michael Floyd’s DUI, Tommy Rees’s running from police) happened off campus.</p>