My English prof stole her study questions

[Leros]

I was googling up some research to answer the questions my English professor gave us. One of the things I found was another professor's webpage which contained the exact same questions my professor said she wrote.

Plagarism ftl.

 

[funkymatt]

you should bring that up to her.

but she may think you were using google to get the answers and give you an F anyways, but don't stop there.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: funkymatt
you should bring that up to her.

but she may think you were using google to get the answers and give you an F anyways, but don't stop there.

Research is research, in my opinion. I use the web to get an idea of how to answer the question, then I go back to the text to enforce and expand the ideas that I found online.

 

[MaxDepth]

While she might have lifted these questions, still how many ways can you phrase a question on a particular topic?

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: funkymatt
you should bring that up to her.

but she may think you were using google to get the answers and give you an F anyways, but don't stop there.

Research is research, in my opinion. I use the web to get an idea of how to answer the question, then I go back to the text to enforce and expand the ideas that I found online.

 

[Chronoshock]

It's pretty common for college level courses to share curriculum, especially for basic level classes (ex. intro to algorithms). It isn't plagiarism if they were given permission

 

[amdskip]

I found a test that way once, funny thing was it was an open notes/internet test so the few that found it were the only ones who did good in the class. What a pointless class that was.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: Chronoshock
It's pretty common for college level courses to share curriculum, especially for basic level classes (ex. intro to algorithms). It isn't plagiarism if they were given permission

Yep ^^ It's pretty common.

 

[djheater]

I think it's hilarious that people elevate professors, or instructors generally, to be some sort of paragon of virtue.
Why do we excuse behaviors in fellow students that we hold instructors above?

 

[mugs]

They were probably study questions that were provided with the professor's edition of the textbook...

 

[Safeway]

There is no such thing as plagiarism in engineering. Why reinvent the wheel?

 

[Injury]

You'll also soon find that, especially in many higher-level science and technology classes, the students are vastly superior in intelligence to their professors. This isn't a smart ass or arrogant remark, either. Most professors will admit it.

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: Injury
You'll also soon find that, especially in many higher-level science and technology classes, the students are vastly superior in intelligence to their professors. This isn't a smart ass or arrogant remark, either. Most professors will admit it.

Those who can't do... teach?

Seriously though : the issue I think is that most students -think- they are smarter than their professor even though they aren't yet or might not ever become smarter than their professor.

It was a great pleasure of mine to watch my university professors tear down any such student. Even students who were smarter than professors if they were mouthy or dumb about it would get torn apart as well. They made class worth going to.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: funkymatt
you should bring that up to her.

but she may think you were using google to get the answers and give you an F anyways, but don't stop there.

that would be pretty damn lame considering in the real world you can always look up answers on google if you are stuck.

i also dont think this is a big deal at all since these are simply study questions.

 

[dbk]

Who cares? Move on.

 

[txrandom]

Funny story about professors not being as smart as students:

My roommates girlfriend was on the phone with her mom, who is getting her masters in CPSC and currently teaches CPSC at a high school.

I asked her what's the Big-O runtime of quicksort and she says O(logn), but it should be O(nlogn) or O(n^2). She asked me if I had known about the Master Theorem later though. I'm hoping she just got confused and got it mixed up with something else!

 

[TwiceOver]

Originally posted by: txrandom
Funny story about professors not being as smart as students:

My roommates girlfriend was on the phone with her mom, who is getting her masters in CPSC and currently teaches CPSC at a high school.

I asked her what's the Big-O runtime of quicksort and she says O(logn), but it should be O(nlogn) or O(n^2). She asked me if I had known about the Master Theorem later though. I'm hoping she just got confused and got it mixed up with something else!

Somewhere there are 3 people laughing.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver

Originally posted by: txrandom
Funny story about professors not being as smart as students:

My roommates girlfriend was on the phone with her mom, who is getting her masters in CPSC and currently teaches CPSC at a high school.

I asked her what's the Big-O runtime of quicksort and she says O(logn), but it should be O(nlogn) or O(n^2). She asked me if I had known about the Master Theorem later though. I'm hoping she just got confused and got it mixed up with something else!

Somewhere there are 3 people laughing.

And I am not one of them.

 

[Finalnight]

Same school=not plagarism since profs share ciriculum all the time
Diff school=possibly plagarism

 

[JS80]

Blackmail. Get A in class.

 

[jandrews]

Originally posted by: txrandom
Funny story about professors not being as smart as students:

My roommates girlfriend was on the phone with her mom, who is getting her masters in CPSC and currently teaches CPSC at a high school.

I asked her what's the Big-O runtime of quicksort and she says O(logn), but it should be O(nlogn) or O(n^2). She asked me if I had known about the Master Theorem later though. I'm hoping she just got confused and got it mixed up with something else!

when you said big O i thought you meant some sort of orgasm teacher and what is the fastest way to reach orgasm for a woman...then i got all confused then dissapointed.

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: JS80
Blackmail. Get Ass after class.

Fixed.

 

[IAteYourMother]

Originally posted by: Injury
You'll also soon find that, especially in many higher-level science and technology classes, the students are vastly superior in intelligence to their professors. This isn't a smart ass or arrogant remark, either. Most professors will admit it.

no.

 

[TecHNooB]

Originally posted by: Injury
You'll also soon find that, especially in many higher-level science and technology classes, the students are vastly superior in intelligence to their professors. This isn't a smart ass or arrogant remark, either. Most professors will admit it.

No way... professors are smart as hell.. and they do research! You can't top that as a bachelors or masters student. What field are we talking about here?

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: oogabooga

Originally posted by: Injury
You'll also soon find that, especially in many higher-level science and technology classes, the students are vastly superior in intelligence to their professors. This isn't a smart ass or arrogant remark, either. Most professors will admit it.

Those who can't do... teach?

Seriously though : the issue I think is that most students -think- they are smarter than their professor even though they aren't yet or might not ever become smarter than their professor.

It was a great pleasure of mine to watch my university professors tear down any such student. Even students who were smarter than professors if they were mouthy or dumb about it would get torn apart as well. They made class worth going to.

Many professors have a *very* defined subject of expertise, which is why I say in areas such as Science and Tech, the focus of their teaching doesn't always allow them to follow the latest and greatest of some sections of the subject. A lot of what says this is that many professors have taught the same thing with an unvarying opinion and have become set in their ways and that makes it harder to think outside of the box.

I shouldn't say ALL of the students are better than their professors, but SOME are.