Archive for the ‘school’ tag
Homework Outsourced #
I suppose this was only a matter of time. Quoth Slashdot:
Students studying computing in the UK and US are outsourcing their university coursework to graduates in India and Romania. Work is being contracted out for as little as £5 on contract coding websites usually used by businesses. Students are outsourcing everything from simple coursework to full blown final year dissertations. It’s causing a major headache for lecturers who say it is almost impossible to detect.”
The irony, of course, is that if they actually get jobs in the sector, this will be how they actually work anyway.
Mead Releases Grad-School Ruled Notebooks #
I’ve always wondered why they stopped at “college”…
“We here at Mead understand that as students get older and wiser, they need notebooks with increasingly narrow lines,” Mead CEO John A. Luke told reporters. “In college, people are at a stage in their education where they require 9/32nds of an inch between each line, which is why we make college-ruled notebooks. But I think we can all agree that grad school is a completely different world than college—a world where 9/32nds of an inch is simply too much room.”
(via The Newsroom)
Coolness By Age #
I’m a sucker for graphs. If someone made Crime and Punishment a graph I probably would have read it — and all those other books — in high school. My favorite lines on this one are about candy.