Comments on: Craigslist Ad of the Day: The “I Hope This Guy Isn’t in Med School” Ad

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:17:08 +0000

I used to cover education for a daily newspaper in California, and many of the teachers I interviewed started using resources like Turnitin.com to scan their students papers for plagiarism. Which is good news of course. But it doesn’t solve the problem of a person hiring someone else to write a paper for him….unless the hired gun plagiarizes, I guess.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:48:43 +0000

Some people are unbelievable… Hope his professor comes across this ad!

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:31:44 +0000

I agree. I’d take the money and run just to teach the guy a lesson. Loser. If I get an F in a college class, atleast I earned that F.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:52:12 +0000

When I was working on my PhD, an ongoing moral argument among students and faculty was whether it was ok to get someone else to write your dissertation. As strange as it may sound, there are many academics out there who think it’s ok because you need to prove your knowledge and research skills, not your writing skills! (Their argument, not mine).

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:07:19 +0000

I bid on jobs occasionally on another freelancer site, and it’s amazing how many people hire writers to knock out college essays, mid-terms, and finals. My favorites — I swear, it happens at least once a month — are the brain donors looking to pay someone to write their ethics essays.

side note to Ronda: I’m an elementary school teacher, and I deal with the same thing, except in my case it’s parents who are offended when I don’t believe their child authored the encyclopedia article they printed off the internet.

By: Lou Paun

Lou Paun — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:10:04 +0000

Ronda’s right. I’ve seen far too much of this kind of thing. It depresses me so much that I try not to think about it.

By: JLG

JLG — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:55:55 +0000

I hope it’s just me becoming paranoid but…

It’s scary to imagine that the doctors who will do major operations on us might be using this ” resourcefulness” while in med school.

Scary, isn’t it?

By: Ronda

Ronda — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:46:40 +0000

As someone who was a former graduate student TA for gen ed classes, this doesn’t surprise me at all. We would require students to show us our student ID’s – we had 200 kids in our class, so it was hard to keep track of everyone.

It’s sad what “education” has come to. Having a degree doesn’t mean much other than you either had the money to go to school or went into debt to go to school. A lot of these kids are happy to turn in things they copied off the internet (about 50% of papers I graded were at least partially plagiarized…). The worst part is when the football coaches get angry because you’re failing their star player who never showed up to class!

Enough with my ranting…this sort of thing really gets me going though!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:42:29 +0000

You know, it never would have ever occurred to me to hire someone to take a test for me. What does it say about someone that they not only think about it but advertise it on craigslist? Yikes! Please tell me this person doesn’t want to be a bioethicist one day…

By: Michelle Kafka

Michelle Kafka — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:16:54 +0000

As Kyle’s mom says in South Park “Wha, wha, WHAT?”
Paying someone else to take your exam?
That’s just sad!