Another reason to watch yourself....
Well, it's about 11:00 on Tuesday night and I really should be asleep. I say I should be, because I have to spend the entire day tomorrow preparing for the 6:30 shoot at the harmless cooing bird house that has so kindly allowed us (free of charge!) to shoot there. Unfortunately, my body is fighting me on this...probably because I have made it stay awake for an extra three to four hours every night so far for the last six days. That aside, I'm sensibly using the "extra" time I have on my hands to send additional emails to prospective PAs and to surf generally mundane and meaningless web sites.
It was during my surfing that I found a fellow bloggers account of an attempted cheating bout. Needless to say, as a student who is damn near exhausted from writing papers and doing my homework honestly, (while working forty hours a week to keep myself in toilet paper and poptarts...), I was amused. Very. This girl solicited a stranger over AIM and offered him money to write her a paper on Hindi for a class. Please note that the paper was due the very next day. And it only had to be five pages long, which makes her lazy as well as stupid and a big fat cheater. In response, after playing with her for a while and offering every chance to see that he was full of it, the blogger offered to write it for her. In her words, "money is no object". He did, she did (after a lot of trying to get out of showing proof of paying, etc...). In the course of it he did manage to get her name, although she lied about her school, and he in turn posted the entire sordid affair on his blog, as well as emailing it to her dean. The paper he wrote was so completely asinine and obviously baloney that if she had read it before submitting it, she would have realized it was crap. However, based on what we've seen of her thus far, I somehow doubt that she did. You can read the whole story at http://aweekofkindness.com/blog/, scroll down to Laura K. Krishna is a Plagiarist. Keep in mind that the school name as well as her own has been changed by now (probably to avoid a lawsuit).
Whether it is true or not will probably never be known. The blogger is a comedian and it did come out approximately a week before that oh so sweet pranksters Mecca, April Fools Day. BUT, and this is a big but (notice those capital letters?), there does seem to be a lot of evidence in its favor.
Read about it on Boing Boing's site
I hate cheaters. And if this story is true, I hope that girl is is punished to the full extent of her university's polices. She probably won't be, as this is how things tend to go in our overly litigious and backwards society. Nevertheless, cheaters never prosper (unless of course they do-and we all know someone like that) and this stupid little twit got what she so richly deserved. People are bashing the guy who turned her in for being cruel and "possibly ruining someone's life". He didn't ruin anything. That dumb ass who was soliciting strangers to do her work did. Was this the first time you ask? It could have been, but somehow I doubt it. People like that cheapen the value of what I am working so hard for and I have no pity.
So, the lesson here is if you are dumb and callow enough to cheat, don't ask strangers to help you, or it will turn around and bite you on the butt (and rightly so!). I am now going to pound a beer and hope that will put me to sleep. Not the best way to go about it, but I really hope it works. The way my life's been going all it will do is make me feel like crap when I wake up, but that really isn't so different from how I expect to feel in the morning anyways...
Ciao,
-Veelzabub
It was during my surfing that I found a fellow bloggers account of an attempted cheating bout. Needless to say, as a student who is damn near exhausted from writing papers and doing my homework honestly, (while working forty hours a week to keep myself in toilet paper and poptarts...), I was amused. Very. This girl solicited a stranger over AIM and offered him money to write her a paper on Hindi for a class. Please note that the paper was due the very next day. And it only had to be five pages long, which makes her lazy as well as stupid and a big fat cheater. In response, after playing with her for a while and offering every chance to see that he was full of it, the blogger offered to write it for her. In her words, "money is no object". He did, she did (after a lot of trying to get out of showing proof of paying, etc...). In the course of it he did manage to get her name, although she lied about her school, and he in turn posted the entire sordid affair on his blog, as well as emailing it to her dean. The paper he wrote was so completely asinine and obviously baloney that if she had read it before submitting it, she would have realized it was crap. However, based on what we've seen of her thus far, I somehow doubt that she did. You can read the whole story at http://aweekofkindness.com/blog/, scroll down to Laura K. Krishna is a Plagiarist. Keep in mind that the school name as well as her own has been changed by now (probably to avoid a lawsuit).
Whether it is true or not will probably never be known. The blogger is a comedian and it did come out approximately a week before that oh so sweet pranksters Mecca, April Fools Day. BUT, and this is a big but (notice those capital letters?), there does seem to be a lot of evidence in its favor.
Read about it on Boing Boing's site
I hate cheaters. And if this story is true, I hope that girl is is punished to the full extent of her university's polices. She probably won't be, as this is how things tend to go in our overly litigious and backwards society. Nevertheless, cheaters never prosper (unless of course they do-and we all know someone like that) and this stupid little twit got what she so richly deserved. People are bashing the guy who turned her in for being cruel and "possibly ruining someone's life". He didn't ruin anything. That dumb ass who was soliciting strangers to do her work did. Was this the first time you ask? It could have been, but somehow I doubt it. People like that cheapen the value of what I am working so hard for and I have no pity.
So, the lesson here is if you are dumb and callow enough to cheat, don't ask strangers to help you, or it will turn around and bite you on the butt (and rightly so!). I am now going to pound a beer and hope that will put me to sleep. Not the best way to go about it, but I really hope it works. The way my life's been going all it will do is make me feel like crap when I wake up, but that really isn't so different from how I expect to feel in the morning anyways...
Ciao,
-Veelzabub
posted by Veelzabub at 11:05 PM
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