This place is turning out to be my holding cell for things I plan on commenting on later.
First, one of my favorite memes from my former life online, the Christianity Index. And I actually know who composed that, too, because that links to the original Usenet post containing it.
And second, my first ever video upload to YouTube, on behalf of one of my favorite artists EVER (and not just because he sent me a copy of his CD before he released it), Tim McAllister. I'm really hyped over this one.
Donald McCabe says he has the research to prove it: Business students probably cheat the most.
"Students
in business already have a bottom-line mentality," said McCabe, founder
of the Center for Academy Integrity and a professor at Rutgers
University in New Jersey. " 'I have to get the job done, and how I get
it done is less important.' That kind of thinking."
In a survey of 32 schools, 74 percent of business undergraduates
admitted to having engaged in one or more of 13 behaviors listed in a
cheating index, compared with a mean of 68 percent from all other
students, he said. Business students also topped the list in graduate
school, he said.
Second on the list of cheaters, he said, are engineering students. Both business and engineering are problem-based.
I mean, it can't be PURE schadenfreude, because it mentions engineering students. (Remember: Rose-Hulman is all science and engineering, all the time, and engineering physics is still near and dear to my heart.) But I will can't pretend that my feelings towards business majors are all pure and altruistic, either; not if I want to be honest.
Actually, it's not really the majors themselves, I think; it's the brand of student that is simply ranging from apathetic to bitterly cynical about their education. That's the student who really doesn't care about learning (and honestly, many of those students already know the material in the course like the back of their hand); they want the piece of paper that certifies that they have learned, so they can get the paycheck that comes with it.
For some reason, though, business and engineering attract this breed of student more than any other major.
In order to avoid shutting down this thing completely with music-stuff: You Don't Know Jack!
I've gotten addicted to the game lately, because I've always cherished good buzzer games and this is as close as you can get online. Why I didn't go for the DVD/computer game while I was in grad school, I have no idea. (Oh wait, yeah I do: I was BROKE.)
If you are of the conservative/Bush persuasion, fair warning: Don't take it too seriously. They don't mean for you to.
