It's exam time, so instead of studying, I'm doing this! Baby's first wank report, &c.
So Columbia U has an unusually dense core for undergrads, one of the main features being the mandatory lit class taken by all freshmen. It's called Literature Humanities, Lit Hum for short, and the standardized exam was last Friday.

Some teacher apparently made her kids a cheat sheet. They apparently spread it around. The administration is apparently now attempting to hunt down cheaters, and the online community over at CU's Bwog is apparently going mildly nuts.

Is it cheating if the teacher gave them the notes? Is it cheating to hand the notes to other people? What if people's answers correlate to the cheat sheet by accident? (Given that it had one quotation ID question wrong, this is not merely achieved by being studious.) And why is admin trying to punish students at all?

Wonk wonk wonk. Lots of freshmen claiming in capslock that they were NOT CHEATING YOU GUYS. Lots of people who've already taken Lit Hum laughing at them, because it has never been a difficult exam. Animal House is referenced. SEAS (engineering) and Barnard undergrads, who don't have to take Lit Hum, point and laugh and get offended. There's even a strain of completely random racewank.



Bravo Bwog: "I've never been so glad to have gotten IDs wrong. I, for one, expect to get an 'A' by default. Anything else would be patently unfair."


Irony: "crime and punishment is the quote that's catching everyone?"


Adam K: "Raskolnikov refused the water with his hand, and softly and brokenly, but distinctly said:
“It was I found teachers' notes to the Lit Hum final and robbed them.”
Ilya Petrovitch opened his mouth. People ran up on all sides.
Raskolnikov repeated his statement."


Stop snitchin: "First off, the concept of grading on the curve is dehumanizing. Fuck that. If I do well, why should my classmate do poorly as a result? If you know the material on the exam, you should get a good grade. If everyone knows it, everyone should get a good grade. Curves are for Republicans."


And my personal favorite, not the least because it might actually be serious:

Sakiv: "Hey first years:

Here's a chance for all of you to boost your grades.

Regardless of what grade you get on your lit hum final, email the instructor and say that you want to know if you were penalized for cheating in the exam, even though you are innocent. If you get a no, well, have a nice summer. If you get an improbable yes, insist that you are innocent and raise hell until you get your grade bumped. Most likely, knowing Columbia, you'll get a form letter that won't tell you if you were punished. Take that letter, send it to Bwog and start CC'ing Martinsen on emails to FoxNews and NY Sun telling them about a witch-hunt at Islamo-fascist, liberal, anarchist Columbia University of Havana- North Campus.

Make like Matt Sanchez and leverage your way up the administrative ladder until a hush-money A+ is on your transcript!"


This: "is totally cheating. just because it was easy to do or because you thought you'd get away with it doesn't change the fact that you willingly and gleefully took actions that would help yourself and hurt others in the class. this is no political statement on how curves or the core or exams suck--if it were, i imagine you would've shared the guide with everyone in your class--no, it was for pure personal gain. this is exactly the mentality that leads to ppl going to jail for 10+ yrs for insider trading."

No, no: "pure personal gain is what leads to real criminals NOT going to jail for insider trading but innocent people going to jail for being black at the wrong place at the wrong time. sorry to bring race into this."


Columba Junior: "And yes, guy who keeps posting the same stupid things over and over, the core IS world renowned, but only among other pedagogical tools. It suprises me, then, not at all, that a pedagogical tool like yourself should have heard of it between tokes from The Professor or whatever you call the crutch you use to prop up your meaningless existence.

Shit, dude. How many barnard girls have dumped YOUR bitter ass?"



Oh Bwog. :') I love it when tiny places just randomly explode in wank. ~200 comments and growing.