Would you tell the professor if... Forum

HBK · Post by **HBK** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:31 am

JamMasterJ wrote:even if you decided to go ahead and turn them in, could you actually prove anything? Cause if it's your word against their's, your SOL

I remember in UG, there was a guy who missed the deadline for a paper because he said he got a flat tire. The first thing the professor did was ask him to show him the save file for the document. It seems like it would be pretty easy to prove, but I guess in an email file the save file time stamp wouldn't show.

/guy took an incomplete for the semester

MrPapagiorgio · Post by **MrPapagiorgio** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 4:39 am

IAFG wrote:The benefit of a friend who owes you a favor is worth a lot more than the jack shit you would get for tattling.

TMFCR.

Mal Reynolds · Post by **Mal Reynolds** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:15 am

Anyone else hoping OP's friend also posts on TLS and happens to click on this thread? I am waiting patiently for an epic flame war. Or if not, perhaps OP can report back on the friendship fallout inevitable from posting this topic on a public forum for law students?

Extension_Cord · Post by **Extension_Cord** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:28 am

Mal Reynolds wrote:Anyone else hoping OP's friend also posts on TLS and happens to click on this thread? I am waiting patiently for an epic flame war. Or if not, perhaps OP can report back on the friendship fallout inevitable from posting this topic on a public forum for law students?

Nah, I think her friend is probably one of the outraged TLSers that told her not to tattle because their future interest depend upon it, lol!

Still trying to figure out what a Chinese wall is...

MrPapagiorgio · Post by **MrPapagiorgio** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:34 am

Extension_Cord wrote:Still trying to figure out what a Chinese wall is...

Probably a play on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall. May be a terrible metaphor. I am imaging a kitchen table separated by a prison visit-styled wall that requires a phone to speak to the other side.

Extension_Cord · Post by **Extension_Cord** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:42 am

MrPapagiorgio wrote:
Extension_Cord wrote:Still trying to figure out what a Chinese wall is...
Probably a play on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall. May be a terrible metaphor. I am imaging a kitchen table separated by a prison visit-styled wall that requires a phone to speak to the other side.

I pictured it something more along the lines of a bedsheet that divides the room into two seperate but equal forts.

sunynp · Post by **sunynp** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:04 am

Here's a hint: firms use Chinese walls to control information flow - it's a very common term. I guess OP knows more about working at law firms than her question would suggest; maybe she was a paralegal or maybe she is a third year.

I agree - OP and her friend should not have been doing the exam together. That looks much worse than OP's "friend" saying that she submitted late and benefitted from the issue with submission of the exams.

I am not sure the friend was cheating. If she submitted late, she would have to take the consequences; she just kept working until she finished. The friend (and others who took the exam and submitted late) just got a lucky break.

FeelTheHeat · Post by **FeelTheHeat** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:19 am

Lol at the responses in this thread being worse and douchier than her question

Also, santana might be the worst poster I've seen in a while on this site. Congrats

keg411 · Post by **keg411** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:01 am

IAFG wrote:Wait... are you a 3L?

Blindmelon · Post by **Blindmelon** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:12 am

What made this wall "Chinese"? You mean a divider between you two? Why are dividers Chinese? Was it yellow and you're just racist?

Best thing to do in this scenario is to leave your laptop open with your friend around with this thread open... yawn, get up from your desk and ask the person if they could look at your paper open on your comp - they see the thread - voila, conversation started about how you're racist.

johansantana21 · Post by **johansantana21** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:19 am

FeelTheHeat wrote:Lol at the responses in this thread being worse and douchier than her question

Also, santana might be the worst poster I've seen in a while on this site. Congrats

Go away Clippers fan LOL

FeelTheHeat · Post by **FeelTheHeat** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:25 am

johansantana21 wrote:
FeelTheHeat wrote:Lol at the responses in this thread being worse and douchier than her question

Also, santana might be the worst poster I've seen in a while on this site. Congrats
Go away Clippers fan LOL

Cupidity · Post by **Cupidity** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:11 pm

Extension_Cord wrote: I pictured it something more along the lines of a bedsheet that divides the room into two seperate but equal forts.

I hope you fail conlaw.

blurbz · Post by **blurbz** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:26 pm

Oy. No, don't tell. If it bothers you, say something to your friend.

Shitty, though, sure. Fine to be pissed about it. But, as others have said: You probably shouldn't have been doing the exam with someone else anyway...Nothing good will come of it for you if you tell.

AreJay711 · Post by **AreJay711** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:44 pm

If the prof didn't want you to cheat he wouldn't have made it a take home exam.

Experimental Section · Post by **Experimental Section** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:16 pm

How did she "cheat"? Sounds like she got a lucky break. I'm not sure I'd describe that as cheating. Sometimes life isn't fair.

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:18 pm

AJaKe wrote:What would you do?

Stop using the phrase "Chinese wall." That's fucking racist.

Morgan12Oak · Post by **Morgan12Oak** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:24 pm

lmao i don't know what else has been said in this thread, but the misuse of "chinese wall" is laffable.

sundance95 · Post by **sundance95** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:36 pm

Grizz wrote:
AJaKe wrote:What would you do?
Stop using the phrase "Chinese wall." That's fucking racist.

Relax all, she's just saying that the wall they used was really Great.

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:38 pm

sundance95 wrote:
Grizz wrote:
AJaKe wrote:What would you do?
Stop using the phrase "Chinese wall." That's fucking racist.
Relax all, she's just saying that the wall they used was really Great.

Reported for racism.

IAFG · Post by **IAFG** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:31 pm

keg411 wrote:
IAFG wrote:Wait... are you a 3L?

I can't believe more people aren't OUTRAGED about this. That was the friend's real crime: caring enough to cheat as a 3L.

thesealocust · Post by **thesealocust** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:37 pm

IAFG wrote:
keg411 wrote:
IAFG wrote:Wait... are you a 3L?
I can't believe more people aren't OUTRAGED about this. That was the friend's real crime: caring enough to cheat as a 3L.

Some law students just can't give up the fight. The type A was so much a part of them before law school that no amount of no longer being a 1L can rid the taint from their bodies.

BarbellDreams · Post by **BarbellDreams** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:53 pm

I'm sure if OP only had 2 of 4 questions done as time ran out and someone mentioned to OP that system was down and test can be submitted in 30 mins with no penalty she would cite some girl scout code and turn it in half empty for a cool C-....

STLMizzou · Post by **STLMizzou** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:10 pm

AreJay711 wrote:If the prof didn't want you to cheat he wouldn't have made it a take home exam.

Agreed. If you aren't cheating then you aren't trying.

Antilles Haven · Post by **Antilles Haven** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:06 pm

Meh, I don't know. If your professor would actually care about the fact that someone did take that extra 45 minutes to write their exam then it is unquestionably cheating, and it wasn't exactly a trivial amount of cheating either apparently.

I'm actually shocked this consensus is so far in favor of "if you do tell the professor you are scum of the earth."

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