Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group

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Originally Posted by tkflames

Absolutely and you ask him questions regarding your work. That is completely different from solving and working through a problem to get to a solution. (There is a difference between asking someone how do I do this and getting them to do it and copying). In the case of students, there are TA's and Professor office hours where they can ask the same questions as to the guy in the cubicle next door.

If I don't know how to do something, and I know that buddy beside me who's been in the industry for 28 years does know how to do it, you bet your ass I'm going to ask him to show me step by step how to work through the problem. Why would I waste my time and the company dollar just so that I can feel proud of myself for figuring something out?

I'm an engineer, and I can tell you, a lot of my design is basically copying designs that I, or others, have completed before. It's not exciting, but the fact is, it's cheaper for the company, and it's a pretty easy way to learn for the next time.

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In one my engineering classes last year there was a discussion board on the teacher's website that encouraged discussing methodology for solving assignment problems. It was also made very clear that you were to do the actual solving of the problem on your own, and that anything else was cheating. To me, expulsion seems too harsh in this case so I'm happy to see it didn't come to that.

As for the TA who got the guy expelled, do you remember every single lab you ever did? I'm shocked that you could identify a lab as being the exact same as yours when you did it so long ago...