Today’s New York Times reports that 38% of undergraduates have plagiarised works that they’ve found on-line. Appallingly, half of these cheaters don’t consider it cheating. This just confirms my long-held belief that the vast majority of college students ought not be going to college. If they’re cheating, they’re plainly not in school to learn. They …
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802.11ABCs.
Hey, I have wireless in class. This is going to make my urban planning class way more interesting. While the class discusses “definitional paradigms of suburbs”, I’m reading about the role of parking garages in developing a healthy downtown. Wireless allows me to make more efficient use of my class time, maximizing my exposure to …
Nekkid.
Many of the girls at Tech could hypothetically wear less clothing, but they would, in fact, be naked. Lord knows I’m no prude — I’ve done my share of nude hiking — but I couldn’t imagine walking around with as little clothing as some of these girls. Most people wear more to the beach.
The finest minds of my generation.
One of my classes is a 3000-level political science class. (They use thousands at VT; I have no idea of why. Maybe all colleges do so. What do I know about colleges?) This class is intended for third- and fourth-year students, and is consequently populated mostly by upperclassmen, largely political science majors. On Tuesday, my …
Day the second.
I had three classes today. (Well, yesterday — it’s late.) It’s too late for me to go into a whole lot of detail, but suffice it to say that they were a lot smaller than the two classes that I had yesterday, but still quite overcrowded. My professor didn’t show up for the first class, …
First day of school.
I learned a lot in my first day of school today. But not about the sort of things that I thought that I’d be learning. My first class was Knowledge and Reality, your standard intro-to-philsophy class. Well, standard except that there were hundreds of students in this class. Every seat in the auditorium was full, …