Elysian Shadows

So I received the following email from my CPE321 instructor regarding our final papers (sent to the entire class):

All,

I found instances of plagiarism in your term papers. If you are one of the guilty, email me before the final and you might be able to salvage your academic career.

Somebody is about to get completely owned. He's a really cool instructor, but I have no doubt that he would do everything in his power to destroy somebody who dared plagiarize their final paper.

I'm actually really surprised that he would give these people a second chance. Shows what a nice guy he is.

Daaayum. That's actually really cool of your instructor. If they're smart, they'll fess up and do it right this time.

Do they run comparison tools on your source code too? They did that to us, to make sure that we were sharing code snippets with other students.

Actually, no. This instructor literally said "I know how this works. There will be two different solutions to the programming assignments, and everybody will magically have one of the two. I really don't care."

He literally told the class that he really didn't care if we copied the programs. He went on to say that we would also fail his test if we did.

But man, when I saw the subject "Academic Misconduct" in my mailbox, I freaked out for a second. I'm sure that's what he wanted, by giving such a dramatic subject line. Even his message body is unnerving. I actually had to think to myself "is there anything that I could have done?"

It would be funny if he said you copied stuff from the web and it was stuff you had written (it happened to me and I ROFLed)

Haha, there's no way. I have like custom C and assembly rendering functions for Dreamcast in some places. And even my OpenGL stuff was copied straight from Elysian Shadows, which I wrote myself.

Dude. For my Database class, some student had the answers from the prior year, and a good % of students turned in the teachers' answers. -_-
He came into class, furious, with a pop quiz for us all, exclaiming how he can definitely tell his own work when he sees it!

My question is how people thought they could get away with copying answers from an old key? :P

GyroVorbis wrote:Haha, there's no way. I have like custom C and assembly rendering functions for Dreamcast in some places. And even my OpenGL stuff was copied straight from Elysian Shadows, which I wrote myself.

Well that would make it imposable for you get accused.

The second time it happened to me I made it happen.

Because the teacher in question was a total douche, he liked humiliating students (especially if they copied) so I had written a report for him and for a couple days had it on a wordpress blog(not my real one) cause wordpress has good visibility on google; Which this teacher used to check for plagiarism.

Bottom line made him look like an ass and he has really pulled back on the whole humiliation thing now

But I don't think I would do it on this guy...he seams cool(and he'd probably catch on to it)

Yeah dude, that's harsh, but completely awesome of him. I feel really bad for the person who, wait.. no I don't. They're obviously pretty stupid if they're plagarizing work in college lol.

Yeah, that's happened in my classes before. What's funnier is after people get caught plagiarizing they did it a few more times after that! I truly facepalm'd when it was announced, well the first time I expected it, but the second time was just great. I knew one of the dudes who did it too, what's funny is he actually ended up dropping out and got slammed with like $35,000 payments in loans, or something.

How do you go that far and then drop out?