[Jamesy]

I was a mostly B's, more A's than C's kinda student at Stanford.

That said, I'll take advantage of my (relative) anonymity to to say what I think is way more interesting: I cheated.

Not every time I could get away with it, but when I saw an answer key left out before the problem set was due, I swiped it. If the problem set solutions from the previous quarter were left online, I downloaded them all. My memory doesn't provide me with any other examples, though there might have been a couple. That said, I honestly would have *never* cheated on a midterm / test. FWIW.

I hear cheating via AI is much more rampant nowadays, so I wonder if that somehow factors into what Harvard is doing to adjust its grades and what perhaps Stanford is considering doing. I have just enough teaching experience to know that many young people take pride in cheating (and getting away with it), which is sad. I always felt shame when I did it, though not enough, obviously.

I'll use relative anonymity to get something off my chest. During an exam, I saw two students blatantly cheating. They were sitting with a buffer seat between them. One would be working in one of the blue answer books, put it on the buffer seat desk, then the other student would pick up that book and either copy the answers down or switch it with one of their own. I knew both of the people involved and still think about the incident whenever I hear about or see their info online. I didn't want to snitch but I regret not doing so.

[Jamesy]

I was a mostly B's, more A's than C's kinda student at Stanford.

That said, I'll take advantage of my (relative) anonymity to to say what I think is way more interesting: I cheated.

Not every time I could get away with it, but when I saw an answer key left out before the problem set was due, I swiped it. If the problem set solutions from the previous quarter were left online, I downloaded them all. My memory doesn't provide me with any other examples, though there might have been a couple. That said, I honestly would have *never* cheated on a midterm / test. FWIW.

I hear cheating via AI is much more rampant nowadays, so I wonder if that somehow factors into what Harvard is doing to adjust its grades and what perhaps Stanford is considering doing. I have just enough teaching experience to know that many young people take pride in cheating (and getting away with it), which is sad. I always felt shame when I did it, though not enough, obviously.

I'll use relative anonymity to get something off my chest. During an exam, I saw two students blatantly cheating. They were sitting with a buffer seat between them. One would be working in one of the blue answer books, put it on the buffer seat desk, then the other student would pick up that book and either copy the answers down or switch it with one of their own. I knew both of the people involved and still think about the incident whenever I hear about or see their info online. I didn't want to snitch but I regret not doing so.