College thread (OP actually somewhat updated)

[Strovbe]

Oh yeah, add me >>>

ayyyyy i might move to lafayette again sometime soon

[Ad Bot]

[#Ravencroft]

3 more weeks of classes Yee.

[Greek2me]

ayyyyy i might move to lafayette again sometime soon

you're from here?

At UMD, there's a program for some fall semester freshmen called Freshman Connection which is basically evening classes and no real guarantee of a dorm to live in on campus (which most do anyway but many go to apartments then).

I'm lucky in that I have a relatively early FC schedule, 3pm to 7:15 pm Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and 4:30 to 7:15 on Tuesday.  Friday is one class at 11:30 am.
Many of my friends have classes that go from 6pm to 8:45.  I thought I was gonna enjoy evening classes being that it's my prime time but I honestly detest it.

Wow. Did you volunteer for that?

[Farad]

I'm starting as a freshman at Texas A&M in the spring semester, studying engineering (haven't decided which field yet, but signed up for petroleum and mechanical).

[#Ravencroft]

I'm starting as a freshman at Texas A&M in the spring semester, studying engineering (haven't decided which field yet, but signed up for petroleum and mechanical).

Sweet, I'm studying Environmental. You should look into that too, there are some really fun internships with it. Why did you take the fall semester off?

[Nickelob Ultra]

Wow. Did you volunteer for that?

It's not a volunteer thing, I have yet to figure out the criteria for being put into FC but my best guess is that you're not applying to any specific school and undecided major.

I was really put off by it at first until both a friend and a tour guide at UMD explained FC is really nothing but evening classes and everything's the same.  It helped convince my parents I need an apartment tho lmao

[Oasis]

What the stuff is this?

[Ticonderoga]

I go to UNT yo

[Racerboy]

http://www.coloradoan.com/story/sports/csu/football/2014/11/23/colorado-state-moves-coaches-poll/19445489/

[sir dooble]

My uni uses this plagiarism detection software (as all of them do), and it's open to students this year, so we can submit our assignments and get a plagiarism report back so that we can change stuff (provided we've submitted some time before the deadline).

It keeps coming back as 1-3% similar/plagiarised on my assignments now, because my name is written on them.
And also because I have to include a cover sheet for some of them, which is identical to the cover sheet everyone else has to use.

[Oasis]

My uni uses this plagiarism detection software (as all of them do), and it's open to students this year, so we can submit our assignments and get a plagiarism report back so that we can change stuff (provided we've submitted some time before the deadline).

It keeps coming back as 1-3% similar/plagiarised on my assignments now, because my name is written on them.
And also because I have to include a cover sheet for some of them, which is identical to the cover sheet everyone else has to use.

That's not really a problem. Professors aren't morons, lol.

[Nickelob Ultra]

That's not really a problem. Professors aren't morons, lol.

Yeah it's not an issue.  We had this in high school too.  Almost all the similarity scores were basically just cover sheets and teacher names on the header.  I don't think there was ever a plagiarism incident now that I think of it.

[Oasis]

Yeah it's not an issue.  We had this in high school too.  Almost all the similarity scores were basically just cover sheets and teacher names on the header.  I don't think there was ever a plagiarism incident now that I think of it.

First coding assignment we had people plagiarized. It was hilarious.

[sir dooble]

Oh sorry, I didn't mean the tone of it read like it was an issue, but it kinda did.
Yeah, it's just curious is all. It picks up some silly things at times. The professors and examiners get final say though and they can overrule what the program finds (which is likely when it finds stupid things), and they can find things the program didn't.

A friend of mine had the program tell him he was possibly plagiarising from some tiny blog website he'd never heard of.
Basically that website had quoted the same ancient source that my friend had (and my friend had quoted and referenced that properly), but somehow the program decided that similarity was worth mentioning.


I don't know of any cases of plagiarism that have occured in my year yet (although we're not far in, and most people have only submitted a few pieces of work so far which have yet to be marked and returned).
Apparently the most common plagiarism, or unfair practice, that occurs is self-plagiarism, or it's plagiarising by forgetting to reference properly.

[sir dooble]

So this is stuff as hell.

My Students Union/Student Bar has decided upon the style of the Winter Ball this year.
It's going to be "Frozen" themed.

They put the question out on their facebook page asking if people wanted a Frozen theme or a traditional Black Tie event, and there was almost unanimous agreement to have a regular Black Tie event, and they've gone ahead with a Frozen theme anyway.

It'll be tacky beyond belief.