So, anyone who might recall there was a plagiarism thing where my group in a group work set of 5 lab-reports was copied to the score of 5 lab reports 3 were copied (absolutely, with no alterations, even keeping the silly mistakes like recording a speed in ns/m rather than the traditional m/s - though one of the 5 people copying did make the interesting choice to where we had photographed hand-written notes they re-wrote the notes and photographed the redone ones - again including a mistake...)...
Well from my group I got a text saying "have you seen the email? It says we got zero" ... (I'm actually paraphrasing, the group member's first language is not English AND she prefers txtspk to actually typing and relying on pesky autocorrect and autocomplete, the combined effect of which is requiring frequent "erm... come again?" replies)
Oh no!
Look at email - no email.
Oh.
Look in spam folder - no email.
Hmm.
Wait sort of not very patiently.
Ah ha! Email... lets get this read then appeal the hell out of it...
"Following the interview, and in light of all additional evidence provided by interviewing all implicated students, it was decided that, on the balance of probability, the student was not in any way involved in, or aware of any sharing of files between groups. As a consequence, the student is acquitted of the allegation and no penalty is imposed on their work in this instance."
Re-read it three times because my group member had stated it was zero...
Oh. Yay.
Realise that the group member who, thinks that maybe the work was probably stolen from her computer while she maybe went to the loo after being asked about the coursework by maybe one of the maybe plagiarists which was apparently so memorably event that she committed it to memory for later, got zero but I didn't - don't feel remotely bad for the other group member because stress is over.
But I was stressing out to the point of being unable to concentrate or sleep for days when I should have been working on a coursework - a 10 page double columned, journal style literature review of 30 papers and lab reports on 10 labs, had a single day to do it, and having had the best nights sleep in ages the night before, woke up late... frantically type like the wind, submit a 6 page effort for a 10 page document...
So, there I was waiting for the marks back from the plagiarised work, a coursework that I'd completed in a blur of caffeine and typing while reading any relevant papers I could find, a group coursework that nearly resulted in a row between group members, and a coursework+presentation that I was fairly confident ... (and three exams but they haven't happened yet)
results back from plagiarism'd work - 75% not bad considering 25% of the group does not speak or write English well and none of us were really confident in Fourier Transfers type maths.
insane-caffeine-fuelled-typothon - 75% ... how? Only submitted 60% of the words I should have... don't complain!
row-inducing-group-work (really one group member didn't contribute an awful lot, but the night before a member said "is it a good time to talk about contribution percentages?" ... no, there's 20 hours left to submit, let alone rectify that) 84%
coursework+presentation 90% (unfortunately the presentation marks can't all count - he said afterwards that he'd scored me at 112% when added up, I could have done with those in the written piece which only scored 80%).
Also got a 100% mark on a coursework before all the worry over possibly re-sitting because another person might have been careless which was nice... I've never seen 100% on a coursework - wasn't the only one but, was nice to see
So the result of 3 months of long commutes, worry about plagiarism, ill health, despair, anger and an awful lot of caffeinated drinks (what sort of idiot does 4 hours of commuting a day?! without fizzy-go-juice I'd have been comatose some days) is that I didn't need to worry after all, and had I not been so concerned with worrying about the coursework going *poof* I'd have really knocked some great grades out.
Now even if I don't turn up for the exams I'm guaranteed a 2.1 and only need 50% in each to net a first...
Next year someone else can do the worrying...
This rambling was brough to you by the letters ... "got home late and had no one to be chuffed at after seeing grades late..."
Feel free to ignore.
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Have they nailed the culprit(s), and (if so) have there been consequences?
Nitefly said: Unfortunately they decided to count all 5 labs (and the case study and marked-in-the-lab sessions) as one Coursework Reference Number... This means that those in the wrong got 0 and a assessment offence was recorded against their name... But only one.
One individual I know won't pass on the resit coursework because they did so badly on the exam... But the remaining 4 I don't know. Feels a little consequence free for my taste, hardly the destroy them to the last of their line and salt the earth result I was hoping for.
That was several lifetimes of stress but you got the result you wanted
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By the way (old man here who did fourier transforms and forgot them again decades ago) the cycle of stress and deadlines and people trying to get one over on you will continue until you retire.
I suggest you wind down, type slower, and rely less on the caffeine. Your wits alone will be enough to get you through.
As for less caffeine, are you mad? Programming is at least 25% caffeine based.
Congrats Myranda, you should be proud.