Wednesday, May 14, 2003

A new low in student respect & intelligence: via our digital submission tool a file was submitted last night 5 days after the initial deadline. 20% per day penalty was advertised, so why bother?! The file was submitted by a certain student (let's call him "Dumbo") with a typed description labeling the file as having come from him. However the file itself was named with a different student's ID number (for the sake of argument, call him "Mother"). The file contains Mother's work and is identical to the file that Mother submitted 2 weeks ago! So the questions that immediately come to mind are:

  1. Is Dumbo taking the piss?
  2. Or is Dumbo so worryingly stupid that he thinks this is a good way to get some easy marks?!
  3. And, how did Dumbo get hold of Mother's work? I seriously doubt that Dumbo's bright enough to hack into our system but dumb enough not to rename the file!

It makes one want to ask Dumbo very politely to cross the road in front of busy traffic, just to see if he will...

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