[wwwwwwwwww]

pretty much this. At my school it's an almost universal phenomenon among international students. They literally run a cheating cartel that shares completed labs, tests, and homework. They even have a guy that they buy to take their tests for them.

the school doesn't take cheating very seriously - one time a guy was on his phone looking up answers in the middle of a test. the professor told him to put it away, and he did. a few minutes later he takes his phone back out and is looking up answers again.

it really is despicable how light universities are on cheating

[Eyas]

This hurts quite a bit because of the correlation it seems to be making between international students and cheating. I do agree that degrees should mean something, which means anyone benefiting from such 'cheating cartel' should not reap the fruits of being called a degree holder of an institution.

But a comment like this makes me wonder if this is how I am viewed as a non-citizen graduate of a 'good school' who performed well above average in their class. Credentials like a degree are never enough to prove someone's worth/skill, of course, but this comment seems to suggest I might be facing additional pressure to prove my worth because I'm foreign-born. I was not aware this might need to be something I should be cognizant of.

[droopyEyelids]

I actually thought of the one foreign student I knew that was a really hard worker when i wrote the original comment and almost decided not to write it. But I remembered seven scum-fucks to balance him out, and the group projects where I did all the work and their names went on the final product.