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Originally Posted by HelloHockeyFans
It always pissed me off because I knew that these idiots did zero work and would still end up passing the exam, albeit most of the time with worst marks than those who actually put in the effort.
Another thing that pissed me off when I was in school were the freaking copying of assignments. Some of these assignments took 8-10 hours to do and you'd get groups of asshats who get together at the start of the year and agree to split up the assignments for the rest of the year so each person only does one.
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You sound like the typical wet blanket that would ask questions during lecture just to try and impress the prof by sounding smart.
You're complaining about cheaters that got lower marks than you anyways. Who cares? As long as the people doing work do better than them, the system works just fine.
Same with students who split up assignments. Do you not think you learned more by doing them yourself and either got a better mark or had less studying to do for the final because of it?
In my opinion if you go through engineering and never bend the rules a bit, you're just plain stupid. You are going to end up being the type of worker that spends 10 hours a day at work and gets pissed off by the slacker who is there for 7 hours and spends 2 of them on the Internet. That same slacker is probably doing just as much work as you because they learned how to be efficient in University.
I think that's part of the reason Engineering is so lax on cheating/group work for assignments. There was a day set up at the beginning of every year to distribute people's old lab manuals. If you did engineering 201 without a 'road map', you are terrible at time management.
When you get a job after university it's not important that you come up with the answers yourself, it's important to come up with the correct answer in a timely fashion. If you have to work with others around you, look at other's work published on the Internet, it doesn't matter. I honestly think cheating your way through engineering helps you develop a good chunk of the skill set that you'll use for future problem solving.