<p>Do people NOT help people? Do they sabotage? I know it can't be Berkeley-esque bad, but...is there anything wrong, at all, even?</p>
<p>My S is a freshman and he has been having a great experience. From what he has said it has been pretty cooperative.</p>
<p>D2 is a first yr engineering student. CIT wants its students to succeed. If you are in need of tutoring or help with classes, you can either form your own study groups or there is an office that connects you with other students.</p>
<p>Most students are extremely collaborative. Study groups are generally recommended by professors, and for many they’re a necessity.</p>
<p>Very collaborative learning.Students are friendly and helpful.Faculty is great</p>
<p>Does this comment hold true for students in Tepper? Is there much collaboration?</p>
<p>I think they get a decent number of group projects, and I remember seeing groups of Tepper students working together on their calculus homework in Mudge Library back when I used to work there with my friends, so I’m sure they’re fairly cooperative. And, heck, with how often they go out partying together on Thursday nights to make us engineers jealous I’m sure they’re not too competitive. :p</p>
<p>Tepper here. Even in this economy there’s a lot of cooperation. Deloitte case competition was this past week and students from different groups even talked and bounced off ideas to competing groups. Many students will take time out to help you with the homework and since the school is small, everyone feels connected and that they are in the same boat.</p>
<p>i visited the school in november and asked this question to lots of current students. </p>
<p>they said most of the students are competitive only with themselves and absorbed in their own work. however, most students are friendly, so if you ask for help they’re more than likely willing to help you out.</p>
<p>hope this helped, though i’m not a cmu student. waitlisted, in fact x( But i’m like a cmu encyclopedia, so ask away…</p>
<p>CMU was actually very cooperative. Groups of students tend to help each other out… I often studied with classmates, checked homework,etc. It has been a number of years out for me, but at least while I was there, we had a well set-up tutoring program. Every school night in Mudge and Donner reading rooms, there were tutors for the most common freshman subjects. They sat there for 3 hours or so and it was a walk-in free service for anyone who needed help. In addition- for specific subject difficulties, they can help set you up with a person privately. I myself took advantage of some extra physics tutoring, and later was a coordinating tutor myself.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that at some other schools students rip pages out of books that are on hold at the library so that other students don’t get the information, etc. It is terrible to hear this- and I didn’t hear a lot of this kind of stuff going on at CMU.</p>
<p>I’m in design, and we’re extremely collaborative, and after being together in studio for several years, we’re very close as a class, work together, offer critique, buddy up in non-design classes we might be taking together, etc. Even architecture isn’t cutthroat. Design and architecture programs have a reputation of being more brutal in that regard, at least traditionally, but CMU in general is very interested in having its students succeed, and encourages collaborative interaction among students and lots of communication between professors and TAs as well. This has been true of all the classes in various departments I’ve taken classes in. In my four years here, and with longtime roommates in traditionally cutthroat/GPA-focused majors, I’ve never heard of any sort of sabotage/large scale cheating or refusal to work/study together. It’s competitive, but not to the point where students feel the need to tear their classmates down in order to get above them. It’s not how CMU works, here it’s very process-oriented, so doing malicious things like ripping pages out of text books isn’t going to do you any good.</p>
<p>does anyone know how cooperative the biology students are? pre-med students?</p>
<p>im resurrecting old thread to ask the same question</p>
<p>what about biology classes?</p>
<p>very cooperative.
people care about their grades but a lot of people are honestly really passionate about what they are study so they care more about learning then getting the grade.</p>
<p>house, i thought you went to hopkins and umichigan. going back for a phd or something? princeton plainsboro needs you dude dont leave</p>