I couldn't help notice that this article is about LAPTOPS DURING EXAMS! not about college drop-outs or in how many years you're going to retire.
So good for you that you dropped out of college.. but maybe you should go back to school and learn to read!
- Sabrina
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I'm currently taking a IT course at college and have taken many "on-line" exams mostly for programming.
Sure, it's convienient to use your laptop.... especially if you type faster than you hand-write. However, I do think this gives students a huge opportunity to cheat.
Students are expected to use their laptops for exams (like programming, database, etc...) but cannot use their notes or look at previous assignments. Okay, lets get real people! There's a teacher sitting at the front of the room, and you're way at the back... hhhmm.. what would you do if you suddenly forgot the code for file I/O in perl?
I think the use of on-line exams are just giving more students the opportunity to cheat on exams... if we're not allowed to use our notes (or even our compilers in some cases), why not just write it down on paper... that way if you don't know your stuff, that's just too bloody bad.
okay.. whatever.. there are "geek girls" out there.. i can attest to being a huge one... now i don't know what everyone is talking about.. but there are chicks who not only can use a computer, but take it apart, put it back together.. network it with whatever.. write programs for it.. etc..etc.. and yes, even play with linux on it!! but you also have to keep in mind one thing... girls grow up with the image that they should concentrate on boys, makeup and shopping.. not networking, programming and linux.. i know from experience that, if you play with computers, you're kid of an outcast for not being the way everyone else is...
i'm currently taking an information systems technology course at college. and reading that article is quite discouraging.. although it did get me thinking.
but aren't most job likes that?.. honestly.... i'm sure being a manager at mcdick's is like that too, you fell under-aprechiated, etc.. etc (no offense if you work at mcdick's)...
people are happy when they're doing something they love. pehaps the people surveyed took the wrong path in life... that's why they're not happy... who knows. either way, there are some people who love their jobs... and there are some who hate them. i think that's like that with every career choice, correct?
i never really did fit in in high school. i went to a small school (about 500 people)... i was a girl... i was an over weight girl... i was an over weight girl who liked computers. i had no problem with who i was... but for some reason other people did. I was teased by the guys for being "fat"... and i was mocked by the girls because i knew about computers (i don't understand why... i was happy when they couldn't figure out how to get into the control panel during computer class, because there wasn't an icon on the desktop). sure, i had friends, they weren't the "coolest" people in the world, but i still love them to this day.
i played wolfenstein, i played doom, and duke and quake, and quake 2... i also went on the internet.. i have a webpage... i would not consider myself disturbed, or anything like that. i didn't not think about killing my fellow classmates. why?... i'm not that sure. i think because most people can seperate the difference between a game and reality. my webpage doesn't contain shit about hate stuff... i listened to marilyn manson (even though it made me want to kill the guy that produced the album because it sucked - but that shortly wore off when my friend changed cd's)...
okay.. i'm sorry.. i should get to my point..
my point being... yes, i do "nerdy" stuff, but that doesn't mean that i'm going to blow up things and kill people. what happened in colorado is an isoloated incided.... and i don't think the fact that they played quake n' stuff did this. do you remember the game "commander keen"? well, you killed things in that game too! doesn't mean that you're gonna go shoot things, now does it?
for once, should stop trying to find scapegoats... the fact that someone played a game isn't going to throw them over the edge, it's the people around them who do (parents, teachers, friends, classmates)..
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I couldn't help notice that this article is about LAPTOPS DURING EXAMS! not about college drop-outs or in how many years you're going to retire.
So good for you that you dropped out of college.. but maybe you should go back to school and learn to read!
- Sabrina
Sure, it's convienient to use your laptop.... especially if you type faster than you hand-write. However, I do think this gives students a huge opportunity to cheat.
Students are expected to use their laptops for exams (like programming, database, etc...) but cannot use their notes or look at previous assignments. Okay, lets get real people! There's a teacher sitting at the front of the room, and you're way at the back... hhhmm.. what would you do if you suddenly forgot the code for file I/O in perl?
I think the use of on-line exams are just giving more students the opportunity to cheat on exams... if we're not allowed to use our notes (or even our compilers in some cases), why not just write it down on paper... that way if you don't know your stuff, that's just too bloody bad.
- Sabrina
okay.. whatever.. there are "geek girls" out there.. i can attest to being a huge one... now i don't know what everyone is talking about.. but there are chicks who not only can use a computer, but take it apart, put it back together.. network it with whatever.. write programs for it.. etc..etc.. and yes, even play with linux on it!!
but you also have to keep in mind one thing... girls grow up with the image that they should concentrate on boys, makeup and shopping.. not networking, programming and linux.. i know from experience that, if you play with computers, you're kid of an outcast for not being the way everyone else is...
I'm just wondering how MS is going to crash my tv?
How can it be a true MS product if it doesn't crash.
i'm currently taking an information systems technology course at college. and reading that article is quite discouraging.. although it did get me thinking.
but aren't most job likes that?.. honestly.... i'm sure being a manager at mcdick's is like that too, you fell under-aprechiated, etc.. etc (no offense if you work at mcdick's)...
people are happy when they're doing something they love. pehaps the people surveyed took the wrong path in life... that's why they're not happy... who knows. either way, there are some people who love their jobs... and there are some who hate them. i think that's like that with every career choice, correct?
well, i think i'm done.... have a nice day, y'all
sabrina
i never really did fit in in high school. i went to a small school (about 500 people)... i was a girl... i was an over weight girl... i was an over weight girl who liked computers. i had no problem with who i was... but for some reason other people did. I was teased by the guys for being "fat"... and i was mocked by the girls because i knew about computers (i don't understand why... i was happy when they couldn't figure out how to get into the control panel during computer class, because there wasn't an icon on the desktop). sure, i had friends, they weren't the "coolest" people in the world, but i still love them to this day.
i played wolfenstein, i played doom, and duke and quake, and quake 2... i also went on the internet.. i have a webpage... i would not consider myself disturbed, or anything like that. i didn't not think about killing my fellow classmates. why?... i'm not that sure. i think because most people can seperate the difference between a game and reality. my webpage doesn't contain shit about hate stuff... i listened to marilyn manson (even though it made me want to kill the guy that produced the album because it sucked - but that shortly wore off when my friend changed cd's)...
okay.. i'm sorry.. i should get to my point..
my point being... yes, i do "nerdy" stuff, but that doesn't mean that i'm going to blow up things and kill people. what happened in colorado is an isoloated incided.... and i don't think the fact that they played quake n' stuff did this. do you remember the game "commander keen"? well, you killed things in that game too! doesn't mean that you're gonna go shoot things, now does it?
for once, should stop trying to find scapegoats... the fact that someone played a game isn't going to throw them over the edge, it's the people around them who do (parents, teachers, friends, classmates)..
thanx
sabrina@wwdg.com