In my MBA program, we were all forced to take a class on ethics the first semester.

Ironically, people were caught cheating during the final.

Suck it up, and write the goddamn paper. You might actually learn something useful. I'll agree that over 90% of the stuff I had to learn in undergrad and grad school I've since forgotten. However, I did learn some valuable things in unlikely assignments that have stuck with me to this day.

 

Actually. (I haven't read through more than 5 posts of this thread) My school is using a site called Turnitin.com especially for Ap US history. It automatically checks to see if your paper is plagiarizing by comparing it to other student's essays and writing and seeing if sentence match up.

 

Right on. I think it's curious that people think it's necessary to cheat in order to get good grades at UC schools. Utterly untrue. I'm UCSD '07 and I never cheated or bitched to a professor about a grade and I did pretty well. Someone mentioned that in the real world, or at least in grad school, there is no substitute for hard work and dedication.

My friends at UCSD, as far as I know, were hardworking and ethical and I find it appallingly racist to assume that the cheating problem at UCSD, UCLA, or UCI is attributable to the asian and indian students. After all, undergrad really isn't very much work. It almost seems like more of a hassle to try to buy a fake paper that will pass scrutiny than to just freaking write your own. You might *gasp!* learn something in the process...