wow, 30 hours. i don't think i've EVER spent 30 hours on ANY project.. evar.. not to sound terrible (well, too late i guess) but if you would have 'fought' the system all the way to the top, that would have been a very strong piece to put in your college application (if you were applying to a very liberal arts college,like Berkley or such). shows you got gumption. er, i but i see yer from the UK? nevermind then, carry on <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
let that be a lesson for all you folks still int he school system, hard work NEVER PAYS OFF!! (except when it does)
EpidemicDark Force GorgeJoin Date: 2003-06-29Member: 17781Members
Uh, how did you manage to have 1334 words fill 7 pages? It's hardly 7 pages, unless you have a page for front side, index and etc.. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Luckily, my 30 hour English Language project for this year was on something bizarre and unique; Back To The Future. Plagiarism just wasn't an issue <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->.
I wouldn't take that kind of BS from a teacher, if i'd put in that kind of effort only to be told i 'cheated', i'd frankly go and tell the teacher to go and **** himself, the bastard deserves it.
<!--QuoteBegin-Mouse+Jun 29 2004, 01:54 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mouse @ Jun 29 2004, 01:54 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Despite what you guys appear to think, I have nothing against my Chemistry teacher for unwittingly crying wolf. He is one of the best Chemistry teachers I've ever had and is an all around cool guy. In fact I would even go as far as to say that I'm somewhat glad he pulled me up on this assignment as it has highlighted problems in the way I go about getting my work done.
That said, when I hand in this follow up report, I intend on asking for full marks and if he'll act as a reference when I go on the scholarship trawl.
My only complaint about the school system that stems from this incident is that you are never taught (as far as I recall anyway) how to reference properly in highschool. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> ah, ok, thanks for the clarification... so he's not THAT bad a guy, then, but still, what a drag... though if you can write "too good" papers at the last minute, I doubt there's ALL that much wrong with the way you go about completing assignments... my girlfriend is an english major at an ivy league school, gets near straight A's, and is known for doing just about all her papers at the last minute... she's a machine, I don't know how she does it -- she can finish a 10 pager in like 4 hours... but I digress :> I'm a procrastinator too, but am less of a success story -- probably more like you, somewhat smart but an average student... yet I stand by procrastination <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-DiscoZombie+Jun 29 2004, 05:14 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DiscoZombie @ Jun 29 2004, 05:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Mouse+Jun 29 2004, 01:54 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mouse @ Jun 29 2004, 01:54 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Despite what you guys appear to think, I have nothing against my Chemistry teacher for unwittingly crying wolf. He is one of the best Chemistry teachers I've ever had and is an all around cool guy. In fact I would even go as far as to say that I'm somewhat glad he pulled me up on this assignment as it has highlighted problems in the way I go about getting my work done.
That said, when I hand in this follow up report, I intend on asking for full marks and if he'll act as a reference when I go on the scholarship trawl.
My only complaint about the school system that stems from this incident is that you are never taught (as far as I recall anyway) how to reference properly in highschool. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> ah, ok, thanks for the clarification... so he's not THAT bad a guy, then, but still, what a drag... though if you can write "too good" papers at the last minute, I doubt there's ALL that much wrong with the way you go about completing assignments... my girlfriend is an english major at an ivy league school, gets near straight A's, and is known for doing just about all her papers at the last minute... she's a machine, I don't know how she does it -- she can finish a 10 pager in like 4 hours... but I digress :> I'm a procrastinator too, but am less of a success story -- probably more like you, somewhat smart but an average student... yet I stand by procrastination <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
edit: there was an extra 't' in there somewhere <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I pretty much always leave my homework to the last minute, i had to do a 1500 Word essay on the regime of saddam hussein, and it took me a whole day. I could have spread it over a week, but i'm not like that, it's last minute, or not at all <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Dorian Gray+Jun 28 2004, 10:15 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Dorian Gray @ Jun 28 2004, 10:15 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I f***ing hate stuff like this... I'm practically the only one in my english class who doesn't blatantly cheat (to the extent of leaving blue hyperlinks to be printed) and the teacher NEVER notices. Not even the big blue underlined words, or the "(For reference, go to <span style='color:blue'><u>http://www.sparknotes.com/blah</u></span>)". Pisses me off. I do the work and get a worse mark than some loser who just copy/pastes. Hell, one guy said "Umm I need to use your computer to print it off" (to the teacher) and proceeded to print a website and hand it to her. The worst bit is when one of these cheaters accuses me of cheating when I get 100% on something. No, I didn't f***ing cheat, I just spent a week WORKING on it, instead of 5 minutes copy/pasting. Final exams proved to be hilarious however. The person who cheated on EVERY single physics test (by skipping, faking a phone call and getting the questions off a gullible moron, copying down the right answers into their calculator and copying them onto the test), got 2%. They got their name and the date right, along with one mark on one question (which involved basic trigonometry). <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Find the website whre they got it from (it'll be near the top of google cause they're morons) alert the teacher about one piece, then tell him/her that many other students are cheating as well.
I really hate stupid people, especially when they are supposed to be teachers...
Writing a good paper is not really that hard if you try. I wrote an A paper for english (7 and 1/2 pages) in 2 days and yea, didn't have any problems with being accused of plagerism because I cited all my resources, printed them out and turned them in with the assingment...
My advise, is to take it to the head of the school district and use the word "discrimination".
Either the teacher will get fired, or you will get a written appology and an A in the class. Either way, you win.
If you did in fact work 30 hours on an essay and they won't accept it because it does not suck? Then they deserve to be punished, not you.
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<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Uh, how did you manage to have 1334 words fill 7 pages? It's hardly 7 pages, unless you have a page for front side, index and etc.. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
maybe they were all words like "Adenosine Triphosphate" <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
QuaunautThe longest seven days in history...Join Date: 2003-03-21Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
This has happened to me about 40 times throughout my 2 years in High School. Just because I'm the kind of kid who doesn't learn like others do, and because I actually have half a brain cell.
See, why don't you beat them at their own game?
DO IT AGAIN. Then when they find out you aren't BSing- get 'em for harassment, and show the court they didn't make ANY measures for checking it against you.
And just as a question- how do you fill 7 pages with 1334 words? For me thats about 2 and a half pages. Pics/Diagrams?
MouseThe Lighter Side of PessimismJoin Date: 2002-03-02Member: 263Members, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
edited June 2004
A cover page, 1.5 line spacing, 5 labelled figures, maybe about 10 equations. Filling 7 pages wasn't that hard actually, there's a decent amount of whitespace.
[EDIT] oops, including the cover page and reference sheet it's actually 10 pages <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
This happened to me in English. I wrote this essay and handed it in and it was so good she thought I copied it from somewhere. She was gonna tell my parents about it (never said a word to me) but the day before conferences I handed in an in-class essay that was the exact same style and she had to suck it up.
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<!--QuoteBegin-007Bistromath+Jun 28 2004, 08:57 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (007Bistromath @ Jun 28 2004, 08:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 2) Okay this option is serious: quit high school, get your GED, go straight to college, don't look back. It IS an option. What you're dealing with is not the reason I had to take that option, but it is a much better one than slogging it out for those bloody-minded shitheels. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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let that be a lesson for all you folks still int he school system, hard work NEVER PAYS OFF!! (except when it does)
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Anyway, goodluck..
I wouldn't take that kind of BS from a teacher, if i'd put in that kind of effort only to be told i 'cheated', i'd frankly go and tell the teacher to go and **** himself, the bastard deserves it.
That said, when I hand in this follow up report, I intend on asking for full marks and if he'll act as a reference when I go on the scholarship trawl.
My only complaint about the school system that stems from this incident is that you are never taught (as far as I recall anyway) how to reference properly in highschool. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
ah, ok, thanks for the clarification... so he's not THAT bad a guy, then, but still, what a drag... though if you can write "too good" papers at the last minute, I doubt there's ALL that much wrong with the way you go about completing assignments... my girlfriend is an english major at an ivy league school, gets near straight A's, and is known for doing just about all her papers at the last minute... she's a machine, I don't know how she does it -- she can finish a 10 pager in like 4 hours... but I digress :> I'm a procrastinator too, but am less of a success story -- probably more like you, somewhat smart but an average student... yet I stand by procrastination <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
edit: there was an extra 't' in there somewhere
That said, when I hand in this follow up report, I intend on asking for full marks and if he'll act as a reference when I go on the scholarship trawl.
My only complaint about the school system that stems from this incident is that you are never taught (as far as I recall anyway) how to reference properly in highschool. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
ah, ok, thanks for the clarification... so he's not THAT bad a guy, then, but still, what a drag... though if you can write "too good" papers at the last minute, I doubt there's ALL that much wrong with the way you go about completing assignments... my girlfriend is an english major at an ivy league school, gets near straight A's, and is known for doing just about all her papers at the last minute... she's a machine, I don't know how she does it -- she can finish a 10 pager in like 4 hours... but I digress :> I'm a procrastinator too, but am less of a success story -- probably more like you, somewhat smart but an average student... yet I stand by procrastination <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
edit: there was an extra 't' in there somewhere <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I pretty much always leave my homework to the last minute, i had to do a 1500 Word essay on the regime of saddam hussein, and it took me a whole day.
I could have spread it over a week, but i'm not like that, it's last minute, or not at all <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Find the website whre they got it from (it'll be near the top of google cause they're morons) alert the teacher about one piece, then tell him/her that many other students are cheating as well.
Writing a good paper is not really that hard if you try. I wrote an A paper for english (7 and 1/2 pages) in 2 days and yea, didn't have any problems with being accused of plagerism because I cited all my resources, printed them out and turned them in with the assingment...
My advise, is to take it to the head of the school district and use the word "discrimination".
Either the teacher will get fired, or you will get a written appology and an A in the class. Either way, you win.
If you did in fact work 30 hours on an essay and they won't accept it because it does not suck? Then they deserve to be punished, not you.
maybe they were all words like "Adenosine Triphosphate" <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
See, why don't you beat them at their own game?
DO IT AGAIN. Then when they find out you aren't BSing- get 'em for harassment, and show the court they didn't make ANY measures for checking it against you.
And just as a question- how do you fill 7 pages with 1334 words? For me thats about 2 and a half pages. Pics/Diagrams?
[EDIT] oops, including the cover page and reference sheet it's actually 10 pages <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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I like to call it my "GED with honors."
If not plagerism, what else would the teacher be acusing you of? Nice paper BTW.
Is it a crime to have proper knowlege of the english language?
I say take it to court. But that's me. Or at least e-mail your school districts super intendent and file a complaint.