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jtriangle 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranke...

I know a guy who copy/pasted a wikipedia article, in line citations and all, and submitted it for a sociology class and got an A, no notes, nothing.

mixmastamyk 9 months ago [–]

He “only cheated himself.” :-D

wolverine876 9 months ago | [–]

The point is to develop skills and knowledge, so I would agree. Do you disagree?

mixmastamyk 9 months ago | | [–]

I agree, but we used to cringe at this saying when young, so funny to bring it back now.

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