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Old 04-11-2011 at 11:30 AM   #1
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What is a degree worth?
Talking specifically about engineering. Seems like too many people have no idea how to do a lot of the material and some only get by through cheating and friends.

Sad, no?
Old 04-11-2011 at 11:33 AM   #2
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lots of people cheat in all sorts of faculties, i have a friend at mohawk college taking some program to be a pharmacist and like make drugs/medication, and she said the brown kids in her class would just guess the dosages and cheat on exams. that is bad, cuz if they end up getting their degree and be a real pharamcist and like make drugs/medication and putting random amounts of each ingredient in the drug and people end up dying.
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Talking specifically about engineering. Seems like too many people have no idea how to do a lot of the material and some only get by through cheating and friends.

Sad, no?
Don't worry about it, employers know if you know your sh*t. "They're only cheating themselves".

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Don't worry about it, employers know if you know your sh*t. "They're only cheating themselves".
sometimes they can luckily slide by the interviews or w.e because i assume no1 cheats every exam or test. i assume they attend like maybe 5-10 lectures a term for each class and like not do the practice stuff or read text, and then just try to cheat during exams.
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sometimes they can luckily slide by the interviews or w.e because i assume no1 cheats every exam or test. i assume they attend like maybe 5-10 lectures a term for each class and like not do the practice stuff or read text, and then just try to cheat during exams.
10 lectures a term is pretty solid when you only have one a week.
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some classes have 2 or 3 lectures a week. :p
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some classes have 2 or 3 lectures a week. :p
???

WHAT? Noooooooooooooooooooo o way.

HOW HAVE I GONE 3 YEARS IN THE SAME PROGRAM AS YOU WITHOUT EVER GETTING A SINGLE CLASS WITH MORE THAN ONE LECTURE PER WEEK.
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???

WHAT? Noooooooooooooooooooo o way.

HOW HAVE I GONE 3 YEARS IN THE SAME PROGRAM AS YOU WITHOUT EVER GETTING A SINGLE CLASS WITH MORE THAN ONE LECTURE PER WEEK.

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Well, if they don't actually know what they're doing, they'll surely mess up at work and be kicked out soon enough, especially in pharmaceuticals. Either that, or they'll have to work harder than ever to study THEN what they already should have.
Old 04-11-2011 at 01:26 PM   #11
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well comm 1e03 has 2 lectures per week. math 1m03 has 3 lectures per week. econ 1b03 has 3 lectures a week. econ 1bb3 has 3 lectures a week unless you attend the long super long 3 hr lecture that includes all 3 lectures.
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Talking specifically about engineering. Seems like too many people have no idea how to do a lot of the material and some only get by through cheating and friends.

Sad, no?
They will get exposed through an interview.
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???

WHAT? Noooooooooooooooooooo o way.

HOW HAVE I GONE 3 YEARS IN THE SAME PROGRAM AS YOU WITHOUT EVER GETTING A SINGLE CLASS WITH MORE THAN ONE LECTURE PER WEEK.
Hmmm, it says you're in commerce, so I say you're either lying or completely dillusional. Cause in the off-chance (REALLY off-chance) that you've been able to somehow avoid these 2/3 lecture a week cores by selecting the one that condenses it to one lecture a night (even though they don't exist for all the commerce mandatory courses...), you would've at least known that they existed considering you've been a non-mentally handicapped student at mac for three years registering for classes and customizing your timetable. And yet again, in the complete off-chance that you've managed to somehow avoid even trying to customize your timetable or even look at the mastertimetable to compare cores/tutorials, you would've know about the 2/3 lectures from friends/people you creep on.
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Hmmm, it says you're in commerce, so I say you're either lying or completely dillusional. Cause in the off-chance (REALLY off-chance) that you've been able to somehow avoid these 2/3 lecture a week cores by selecting the one that condenses it to one lecture a night (even though they don't exist for all the commerce mandatory courses...), you would've at least known that they existed considering you've been a non-mentally handicapped student at mac for three years registering for classes and customizing your timetable. And yet again, in the complete off-chance that you've managed to somehow avoid even trying to customize your timetable or even look at the mastertimetable to compare cores/tutorials, you would've know about the 2/3 lectures from friends/people you creep on.
almost all classes have either 1 or 2 or 3 lectures. i know most classes in any faculty usually do a 2 lecture + 1 tutorial thing or 3 lectures + 0 tutorial. :p i dunno why that person didn't realize this considering hes been here for 3 yrs and i've only completed my 1st yr :p
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