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  1. whyte dood says:

    doods cray .. they right thogh, most whyte doods lyke dey beer n whiskey ,i aint never see no A on ne of MY papers though.. mark-ass trick teachers i had wuz prolly jealous of my writin style and creativity . i remember fïrst day fresmen year dude told us to write a cupple paragraphs tellin him a lil bit ab.out ourselves…. i turn it in, 5 mins l8er dude handed it back 2 me wit a F+
    … i wuz lyke wow dude jealousy must consume all ur tyme u fukkin asswhole

  2. SemperSolus says:

    According to Wikipedia, this is the greatest thing ever posted on the internet, ever. TV Tropes disagrees.

  3. Pіесе оf Mіnd says:

    Poll:
    Please expand on your thesis below:

  4. Blake says:

    Hm. I’d have given C————- an F.

    • Jessica says:

      I’d say C—- was lucky he didn’t get brought up on academic misconduct charges. At my university, faculty are responsible for reporting that sort of thing to the Dean of Students.
      It’s really a pity that the student didn’t learn that reporting when a hypothesis is NOT supported by the data is still a worthy research project.

      • Collin says:

        From what I read his problem wasn’t that his hypothesis did not support the data, it was that he could not find research on his topic. The student showed creativity and intelligence that should be rewarded not punished.

        • Blake says:

          Falsifying data is a serious breach of academic integrity and ethics.
          And yes, technically he should be reported to the university authorities, but I’m too lazy to go through the process and it is easier to just fail them. Lots of professors have a policy of failing students that cheat, and then if the student challenges the grade reporting them.

        • deepintheheart says:

          nope academic dishonesty is not creativity and intelligence that should be rewarded

        • Jessica says:

          ‘Support for’ could be interpreted that way, I suppose. I read it as ‘support FOR’ as opposed to against. So you think he just didn’t find any information about the topic? You think that’s really likely that a student could think up a topic that NO ONE has ever written about before?
          And we should reward him for making up lies? The assignment wasn’t ‘creative writing’ it was ‘research paper’.

          • FragFrog says:

            I highly doubt that. Contrary to popular belief, websites do not constitute a proper source for any research paper. The reason for this should be evident now. Only published peer-reviewed literature (and in very rare cases, unpublished work that is expected to be published soon) should be cited in a research paper.

            Most likely, this was a high school assignment. Either that, or C’s professor should reevaluate his teaching methods.

        • moms; they don't love you like i love you - Didn't Forget Pоlаnd says:

          No it shouldn’t.

  5. verare says:

    So he paid to host reputable sounding websites and put work into writing full papers for each of them? I would say that’s more work than writing the paper based on legitimate facts.

    • Jessica says:

      No, I think he’s saying he just created likely-sounding citations and hoped the professor wouldn’t click on the links to see them.

    • shin0bi272 says:

      That’s what I was thinking. Plus the fact that the teacher just had to google to see if there were any other websites out there that supported or talked about the guys hypothesis and when he didnt find any he could have become suspicious about the sites. A simple whois lookup would probably have given the student away. But then again we are talking about a tenured union teacher so he probably looked at the students paper for form and content and assumed the kid did actual research. The teacher should have failed the kid upon doing the second paper though just because he outright lied to the teacher and abused the trust that the teacher put in his students to use legitimate research for their theories.

      • verare says:

        Well, that’s going a bit far I think. The kid did show quite some ingenuity. remember, Kirk cheated to win.

      • Audra says:

        I was surprised the professor didn’t fail the paper simply for using the internet as citation. Everyone knows you can’t believe what you read on the webs these days.

        • k-girl says:

          most research papers today allow the internet to be used as a source, never a citation. you actually have to cite the website you obtained the information off of. it’s much easier for students to access information this way, and sometimes it’s actually the best way TO access information, as books for the subject you’re researching are not always readily available. (dunno if you were kidding or not, but yeah XD)

          • kimi says:

            No, most research papers allow students to use online, peer reviewed research articles. They usually don’t allow just any old web page.

      • Jessica says:

        ‘just had to google’? Lordy, I wish I had time to google every website my students use…and I have a relatively low grading load. If you’ve got a couple of weeks to grade 100+ research projects and final exams, your time is pretty limited.Only way around that is to make the term paper due at midterms, and I don’t think the students would be happy about that.

    • Deekay723 says:

      The truly bizarre thing… and the thing that makes me seriously doubt the truth of the comment… is that professor accepted websites as citations in the first place.

      Unless it is a well-known and peer-reviewed scholarly website, internet sites are not valid sources. The entire point of academia is that knowledge is earned–the point of the internet is everyone has a voice and insists on using it regardless of ignorance and stupidity.

      This is true specifically for the reason expressed in the comment: anyone can put up a website. You want proof the Earth is flat? There’s a website for that. You want proof that (indicate racial group here) is genetically superior to all others? There’s a website for that. Pedophilia is normal and even healthy? Websites galore.

      You can’t cite a newspaper or a popular magazine as evidence to back a point–just to further a discussion, typically as a concrete example of a viewpoint that you wish to discuss. Same thing applies to websites.

    • Blake says:

      It is more work, sure, but manufacturing data is still a breach of academic ethics.

  6. Aponymous says:

    Sure is a lot of butthurt up in here.

    • ClariPossum says:

      And it seems a lot of people don’t recognize a troll when they see one. It’s sad and hilarious at the same time. But hey, it happens to the best of us.

  7. Blake says:

    Also, alcoholism is most prevalent among white males because other demographics are more likely to go for crack, obviously.

  8. B4dmilton says:

    Everyone is missing the point with their criticisms grounded in acedemic ethics. He didn’t publish falsified academic material (which would constitute a breach of ethics), he ‘misled’ his teacher (which is the teachers bad not his anymore) with by forging the substance of the paper, but he demonstrated procedural excellence in his execution of the task, this is what his teacher realized and appreciated. Pending the task he might have legitimately aced it.

  9. xanaxisacoolguy says:

    what about peer reviewed sources lol

  10. icwatudid says:

    Poor Roe Russo from Greensboro, AL.

  11. Irene says:

    Just proves that sociology is a load of s**t :D

  12. Teh Presidon't of teh Internetz says:

    *SUCK 301

  13. KittyFaceForever=3 says:

    I don’t know who posted this, but I know the guy who did the Bibliography paper.

  14. Pulseczar says:

    Cool story, bro. However it is Native Americans who are more genetically predisposed to alcoholism. Certain nationalities of white men are prone to alcoholism (Scots, Irish), but that’s not all white people.

    Jewish people are among the least likely to be alcoholics, genetically speaking. However, they are more likely to be opiate addicts.

  15. Rika says:

    Either I know the guy who posted the last comment or he stole it from here…. Probably the latter.

  16. HI there says:

    HOUSE OF LEAVES.

    my friend did something similar but not as extensive.


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