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Reminds me of a girl from my chemistry lab group on college that replaced our experimental findings at the last minute without telling us because ours was drastically different than the "answer" from past semester works. The experiment was to identify a substance using it's density or something like that. She didn't stop to think that maybe, just maybe, the professor used a different substance on that semester. That bothered because while I didn't take my graduation seriously I really cared for rigor and measured things twice.

Cheating was prevalent in certain situations. I had a teacher that would leave the room during exams leaving the students to do whatever they wanted, which included the whole class hot debating the answer of each question. An engagement level that would never occur in a normal class.

In the CS lab (C++ for engineers) it was common for the student that finished the assignment first to mail the code to the whole class. Most would simply copy it, leave early and call it a day. Many also struggled with programming and put it in the category of "things that are hard and will not need to know".



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