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Back in High School I programmed math notes into my calculator. Nothing too big, just a couple of formulas.

When I hit college they gave us the formulas anyways so I never really had to learn them.

Never had to, being a super genius and all. I heard Wile E Coyote once brought an extra rocket booster going beyond the agreed upon number of 60, but that's just a rumor.

Frankly academic institutions should really encourage cheating. The goal is to create people who function well in capitalism, isn't it?

They gave us formula sheets, but they were always incomplete. The teachers made us aware of the formulas to memorize ahead of time. I just got smartlazy and decided that memorizing these things was a waste of time.

Turns out I was right.

I once cheated in a drama class back in high school by getting really drunk before a monologue. I was spectacular, and then I threw up.

Edited, Feb 8th 2007 9:03am by Barkingturtle

In the broadest sense of the term "cheating", in college (Electronics and Electrical Engineering), we had assignments that we had to hand in at our weekly labs that were precursors to understanding what the lab was going to be all about. Most of the class would copy the assignments off of one or two guys that actually did the work. This was usually done in the minutes before class before the prof came in. In that case almost everyone in the class cheated, but what it boiled down to was the school was most interested in putting a process in place that made sure the students learned the material. Come the lab test time, you could see that many of the guys didn't have any idea on what to do correctly. When building a simple rectifier for the one problem, one guy even blew his caps making the room stink.

In my case, I copied almost every single lab sheet from some other guy, simply because the night before was always pub night and I worked all the time, so I didn't have time to fill it in. I aced all the testing though because the material because it was basically all a review of what I had been doing for years anyway.

I feel that if you know the entire course material, you should be able to just opt for the exam rather than be forced to attend the damn classes and do the craptastic assignments.

I think I saw that on the Flintstones once.






Edited, Feb 8th 2007 12:26pm by Elderon

Physics was the one subject that absolutely killed me, so I did write some mini notes once and roll them up into my pen.

And now that I think about it I do recall writing some Japanese characters on my thighs too. I was a pretty crappy student in high school, but didn't cheat on a regular basis, probably those two times I mentioned when I did absolutely nothing to prepare. Back then the electronic of the time was a pager, hardly a cheat device. :)

Remember the "Growing Pains" where Mike is going to cheat on his test and so he writes all the answers on his shoes but, in doing so, he memorizes the answers and doesn't need to cheat but he's caught with the shoes and they all think he cheated and then the teacher lets him re-take the test in his underwear?

Yeah. Think about it.

Kirk Cameron is my favorite religious whacko. He makes Tom Cruise look completely sane by comparison.

Alan Thicke really wanted to see Kirk Cameron in his underwear.

I never really cheated in an academic setting. I think a couple of times I let someone copy off my paper, but never more than a third or so, just so they wouldn't fail. In college, I was the only one of my friends who would study and I used to go over key concepts in the car with them until I realized they were out partying and I was the only one working. After that, I just told them I didn't remember and hoped I could get by on the multiple choice.

I actually did well enough that I never really thought of it.

Although my indifference still lt my grades drop.. i would usually finish the work while the teacher was still giving instructions for it; then pass it around the room and fall asleep..

I was the guy the delinquents copied off of.

Actually.. more recently in TechSchool me and a few others had setup a PCAnywhere type program on the machine of the woman who actually did her work and we sat there watching her go through the steps in the lesson rather than do it ourselves that was just a few years ago

Oh I did that a lot. Well, first I'd pray for a snow day, then become ill on the day it was due should the weather not be cooperative.

Nexa