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My Dog Corrupted My Files

June 6, 2009 | RSS | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS

What's the 21st Century equivelent to the dog ate my homework? A corrupted file emailed to a professor. Corrupted-files.com sells students files of different lengths that are pre-corrupted, letting them buy a few extra days to finish their assignment.

The site's owner answered questions on it's ethics, "I am simply offering a better excuse. It's not cheating in the traditional sense as the student is still doing their own work and not using a roommates' old paper or being foolish enough to purchase one online. If the student is desperate, it is fair to assume he/she has considered these paths. In such a situation, would you rather have a student make up an excuse and hand in their own work a bit late or submit someone else's work on time?"

Personally I just find it fascinating to watch how this type of behavior (lazyness, cheating, pirating) actually drives culture.

via Crooked Timber // Tags: culture, education


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1amber

haha...this is so funny. It reminds me of what teachers used to say to kids who tried to get out of doing their work - "If you'd only take all the time and energy you spend making excuses, and put that toward doing the work, you'd probably do some of the best work in the class". Or something to that effect.

I guess it's just more fun thinking up ways to cheat sometimes.

June 6, 2009

2Tim Walker

Ach -- I haven't seen this particular dodge, but I did run into one student who (I'm pretty sure) doctored an e-mail address -- ending in ".ed" instead of ".edu" -- and then sent a follow-up two days later with an "Oh, gosh, I guess this bounced back . . ." header.

*sigh*

June 8, 2009