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TFE Goes To College: accused of plagiarism

🕑 Added 2023-10-25 19:12:19 +0000 UTC

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Brandon C

College is stupid for 95% of degrees.

Rob Torres

Can you do more college videos on specific topics, like what someone might be testing on this week? 😂

Catherine Cartwright

College, for me, was a long time ago. I used a typewriter for papers, and went to the library for research. It sounds to me like your professor gave crappy questions. If you can just look up the answer, what’s the point? It’s busy work. But easier to grade, I guess. It should be “take a position and support it with evidence”. Better still, less homework, more essay exams where you take a position & support it with what you’ve learned and remembered. Because 1. It’s a useful (though regrettably rare) skill for the real world, and 2. To use information, you have to understand it, and you’re more likely to remember it in a meaningful way, as opposed to mindlessly memorizing, spitting it out & forgetting it.

Awesome_Becka

Ditto!

Awesome_Becka

🤣🤣🤣 I laughed out loud to this!

Justin Haire

These college videos are great. I just finished my MBA and graduate in May '24 and relate to your experiences. Even at a top university grad school was shit show. Higher education is now run like a business and the focus has evolved to 'how to achieve the lowest possible cost to the university per student added'? That means minimizing manually graded assignments (reserved for group projects) and defaulting to multiple choice questions that can be auto-scored.

Purdune

The whole point should be to memorize items. Also learn how to critically think and properly research. Homework should be just that. It shouldn't matter what or how you did it. Because ultimately the work isn't for the teacher, it's for you. Now I don't want a doctor who didn't learn so we do need a way to judge knowledge. To me the grade should be on the tests. Tests should be done in person and sans any knowledge outside of your brain. Books, cell phones, computers...

Gavin Powers

Make more college vids. School is sincerely dog shit nowadays

Lee Pappas

I just wrote my first paper since graduating college in 08' for the military and one of my buddies told me about the program you were talking about (putting your paper in it and it rearranges it so you don't sound like a Neanderthal) and it absolutely blew my mind. I hate being that guy but man kids have it so easy and it so disconcerting. Long rant but keep up the great content man!

Girl Named Evan

Keep going! I’m 38 and graduated in ‘21 after starting in ‘03. (There was marriage, university dropping my major, and a husband in the Corps involved) The amount of bullshit involved for an overpriced piece of paper is ridiculous. And the entitlement of some professors. I had to drop an online SPEECH class because the first assignment I misspelled one word in a WRITTEN paper and she failed me for it. 🙄 But I sure did take myself to Disney World for finally friggin finishing.

Paul Ackerman

It sounds like the plagiarism scene in "Stand And Deliver". I'm sorry you are having to go through this.

Kasey ALbert

They rely too much on the plagiarism checkers and get flagged for dumb things. I had a ta flunk my final paper for patchwork plagiarism. It sucked and no matter how much I tried to prove I didn't do it. They wouldn't change their mind so I ended up barely passing the class because of it.

Jack Daniels

Something students have been saying for years

TheRealJR

i love these haha

Colin G

These are great videos. You should do a video on vito bertoldo. He went from being a 4F to a cook to a medal of honor recipient.

AustralianViking715

More ripping college kids a new one, go get them champ

The Deplorabologist

There's few things on this earth that can bring me the same level of joy as Nic gaping out communist rectums with his huge history boner. So yeah, I definitely want to see more.

Jonathan Jones

I love them, please keep them coming!

Balljoint

I just signed up for your Patreon to hear rants about College, so yes, more please!

Nathan Slobuszewski

Absolutely love the college rants. It's one of the reasons I'm here apart from supporting you

Jeff

I came here specifically for the collage videos also I'm mad I'm not rich I wanna give the $420.69

Jon Floate

I went to college 15 years ago and when I didn't want to do a paper for a bullshit class I didn't want to be in, I'd plagiarize the shit out of it. I'd find a paper online and change the order and words around. Maybe you can't do that today and maybe I caused some of the difficulties of today too....oops. However, you're correct, things need to change because the system has been broken for a LONG time.

Justin VanHaitsma

Worked with a guy that literally got his degree in cyber security without even taking the shrink wrap off his textbooks. Just googled the answer to every question and reworded it in his own words. I'm not even making any of this up....and that was about 5 years ago.

Jeff Sonich

If it's not super illegal, I'll ship you a case the next time you're on...

David Wasserman

Really wanting you to post your college discussions of you dunking on the 18 year old entitled kids.

Craig Gleckman

Loving the college rants. Joined on here just to see them!

Kassandra Vitela

Love the college rants. What's even better is being that older 20-somethinf college student studying the same shit as the college kids (yes I said kids) but you already have a lifetime of experience on them because you joined the military at 18 instead of going to college and now you're playing catch up AND work full time

Kassandra Vitela

Same. My 13 year old autistic son would rather watch TFE videos

Brad Povey

Keep them coming

Robert Hall

Great job, keep it up

Douglas Taylor

Love the college rant videos. And let me say my 13 year old autistic son has learned more from you then he did in school

Shane Bailey

Just watched the last podcast and I will say if you can’t get Bush Light Guinness is an excellent replacement!!

Joey Leshnack

Keep these coming

Harold knapp

Keep ranting

Robert Bell

Broke as fuck, like most kids finances afterwards. Good luck and yes, these are hilarious, please continue.

Shane Bailey

You Let me know when you’re on next and maybe we can ship some out there for you. Get me an address to send it to.

The Fat Electrician

I try its really hard to find in texas

Shane Bailey

On an unrelated topic, could you please drink Bush light like a real Iowan the next time you go on the Unsubscribe podcast. Love it when you are on there.

William Daub

You're right. The answer to your question about cheating is to give test in a physical classroom using those old blue books and have people write out their answers.

Steve Lacayo

Dam!

Burt Humburg

Your professor doesn't know how to detect cheating. You can't detect cheating by finding people with the same correct answer. Students are supposed to give correct answers. You detect cheating when people have the same *wrong* answers. (Among other ways to detect cheating.)

Christy Booth

Love the college videos! I like getting to hear you opinion on other topics!

Tyler Hoppe

I love both content

CraftyWizardCat

I'm loving these rants/videos. As long as it doesn't eat up too much of your time, please keep em coming!

CraftyWizardCat

I never would have passed Physics A and B in college if it hadn't been for our university's Kappa Underground forums (which I ended up running for awhile because whoever started it had graduated and no longer gave a f**k.) I'm pretty sure one of the physics TAs was regularly posting the homework answers on it, too, which is the only reason I scraped by with a passing grade.

Cody Walker

As a 29 yr old father of 2 (3 and 8mo), working 66 hours a week in a trade, and going back to school for an engineering degree…I couldn’t agree more about how stupid the college system is. However I feel personally attacked that my entire strategy and process of getting through some of these classes bullshit filler material was called out verbatim. 😂😭💀 10/10 love the college content.

Sarah G

I need all the tea on TFE in college

Jeff Sonich

Alternatively, give each student one section of a period in history to make a video of so they can all be edited into one long form video at the end of the semester.

TOILET BOY

College homework was always about bullshitting answers, but now there’s less paper and steps needed. Chat GPT is a hell of a teacher tho. Can learn a lot faster from it than books, obviously need to fact check important stuff. Homework to make videos or to present in person to prove you learned something is the way it’s gotta go.

Jeff Sonich

All valid points. Keep up with whatever content keeps you from burning out. That being said, your content just keeps getting better and I find myself reciting info from your videos when my coworkers ask me about whatever TFE shirt I'm wearing that day...

Karen Bloomquist

Please keep these up, I love them.

Matthew Hawthorne

Long form videos about college would be great but if you can’t make it work these are great too

freddie erdle

Love it keep it up

Justun James

Continue doin you 🤙🏻🤙🏻

alexcoons

Preach my friend!

WillStillwell

That's what I've been saying!

Josh Kosek

So youre saying there should be hundreds of people doing exactly what you do online? Were gonna have The Fat Electrician, The Skinny Plumber, The Beer-Bellied Carpenter, The Jacked Mechanic, etc

Michael Schmidlin

Let's keep these going lol.

Chip crofutt

Keeper goin

John Starkey

Lol I love your story videos about anything the way you tell them is great

alexcoons

Whatever you choose to do, just keep ranting!

John Barbeisch

Keep doing what you’re doing. All your videos are educational and present it in a way that is funny and in a way that someone that learned nothing in college and hated being there ( me ) can learn interesting subjects.

Gauge Bullock

I'm so glad I went to college in 2008-2010; just a simple 2 year degree was enough. I only had one raging feminist teacher (history) and all she ever talked about was how much better women were. I got a C in that class because I just sat in the back and slept the whole time.

Chris Slaughter

Keep up the college rants.........and the YT extras too. Love'em all.

James Whelpley

Keep it up

tim hoffman

Love everything your doing keep it up my man

deja kiara

Love the college stuff, cause I am living it also and its nice to know I am not alone.

Darkour

Dude, you could talk about being a journeyman electrician and moving electrons I'm still tuning in. Keep up the content man!!

Hammarhag

Yes, more of this. Your rants are funny and you make shit interesting. Keep it up 👍

The Broken Nomad

Keep ‘em coming!

Ed Willey

Love the college videos. Ok so if you put in a different order that would be ok? So next time reverse the order see what happens 🤔

Brandon Sammons

My favorite was in my criminal justice class, the plagiarism checker would flag my name and course info in the header as plagiarism from papers I submitted previously in the semester

The Fat Electrician

college prof: i copied all the homework form the internet, but you cant get the answers from there

Nick Peyton

Like what, am I going to cite my name and Mrs. So and sos 3rd grade class?

The Fat Electrician

dude getting told i need to cite a source for stuff i know off the top of my head is infuriating

Brandon Sammons

Absolutely love these TFE College videos. I'm a college student currently and I hate how copy/paste gen ed classes are, but you CANT FUCKING COPY/PASTE

Dan Frank

Absolutely keep doing them if time allows

Nick Peyton

I still am in college, and it's literally that. Original thinking is out of the window and citing references for experience you actually have is stupid.