Macs and getting out of late papers

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paulpaul
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Has anyone else out there used their eccentricity wrt OS to postpone a late paper?



IE "emailing" the professor the file, but knowing full well they wont be able to open it because it is an appleworks document and *not* a word file....? anyone have any nutty stories to share about experiences like this?



who else has gotten out of late deductions because of this

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  • Reply 1 of 14
    kecksykecksy Posts: 1,002member
    [quote]Originally posted by Paul:

    <strong>Has anyone else out there used their eccentricity wrt OS to postpone a late paper?



    IE "emailing" the professor the file, but knowing full well they wont be able to open it because it is an appleworks document and *not* a word file....? anyone have any nutty stories to share about experiences like this?



    who else has gotten out of late deductions because of this </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Sending a term paper as an AppleWorks file...That's a dam good idea. Might as well use what Apple gave me for free to get ahead in the world.





    I did email a word 98 document to a teacher without the file extension once. She had to get comp-sci professor to help her open it. I got an F on the paper too.
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  • Reply 2 of 14
    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    Unfortunatly, all my teachers use macs with the exception of 2. (I have taken DVD and Video production, photoshop, and web classes along with GE.)



    Good idea though. :cool:



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  • Reply 3 of 14
    brussellbrussell Posts: 9,812member
    How many profs require e-mailed papers? Do they grade them on the computer or do they print them out? I don't see the point.
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  • Reply 4 of 14
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    back in 95 when people still used floppies I gave a professor a disk that was Mac formatted... he couldnt read it.



    then, once gave him a floppy that had a really nasty virus that destroyed his pc. totally.



    I once also couldnt finish a paper so I had the first three or four pages (plus table of contents) and then made a ton of ugly jibberish symbols, etc etc and copy pasted it a million times to make it seem like the document had gotten currupted.



    Of course I also sent files in .hqx and .sit format. Surprisingly enough they had easier times with .gz and .tar.



    Then just plain ol just dont add an extension. Macs "used" to not need the damn things.. so PC users always had a field day figuring out wtf the document was.



    Ah... college years
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  • Reply 5 of 14
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    [quote]Originally posted by ZO:

    <strong>back in 95 when people still used floppies I gave a professor a disk that was Mac formatted... he couldnt read it.



    then, once gave him a floppy that had a really nasty virus that destroyed his pc. totally.



    I once also couldnt finish a paper so I had the first three or four pages (plus table of contents) and then made a ton of ugly jibberish symbols, etc etc and copy pasted it a million times to make it seem like the document had gotten currupted.



    Of course I also sent files in .hqx and .sit format. Surprisingly enough they had easier times with .gz and .tar.



    Then just plain ol just dont add an extension. Macs "used" to not need the damn things.. so PC users always had a field day figuring out wtf the document was.



    Ah... college years </strong><hr></blockquote>



    U must have been a teacher's nighmare. As a up and coming teacher, I must invent tactics to defeat students like u. For a start, I have my mac.

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  • Reply 5 of 14
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    I've never had that chance, but my Mac helped keep me from getting applications out late. About this time last year, my office was a complete disaster, as were the offices of everyone else in my internship class. They all had to use the school's network which had the tendency to go down at just the wrong time. I just used my iBook, plugged it into the network, got an IP address and went to town. Not exactly the same thing, but...



    Oh and as an instructor, if I ever got the excuse that using a Mac hindered getting the assignment done in some way, I'd give the student an F for either stupidity or lying. So, choose your victims wisely.
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  • Reply 7 of 14
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    [quote]Originally posted by torifile:

    <strong>Oh and as an instructor, if I ever got the excuse that using a Mac hindered getting the assignment done in some way, I'd give the student an F for either stupidity or lying. So, choose your victims wisely. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    oh i would never say that it was the mac's fault... I would just say "i dont know what happened, it always worked for me..."
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  • Reply 8 of 14
    catalystcatalyst Posts: 226member
    I would never ever blame my Mac. That'll just foster the myth that all Macs suck.



    I simply blame my ISP. "You didn't receive my assignment? Must have been the stupid ISP. I've been having problems with my email account lately. I'll call them up and try sending it to you again".
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  • Reply 9 of 14
    shawnpatrickjoyceshawnpatrickjoyce Posts: 2,417member
    Only if the paper is supposed to be emailed to the professor may one get away with such tricks. If handing in a printed copy is assumed, your grade may be reduced if another problem presents itself in actually viewing the emailed paper. Remember, that would be the second problem the professor encountered with your paper. The first time can be assumed as a legitimate problem, but a second one only increases the likelihood that one's professor suspects one of cheating. And what many have talked about is cheating, by the way.



    All of this can be prevented if the professor actually has standards to which one's paper must adhere. For instance, all research papers must be cited in a proper format- a professor could require similar guidelines for file formats. In this age our options have become increasingly limited with a similar increase in professor's computer literacy. What else can we do about this?
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  • Reply 10 of 14
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    well the idea here is that the professor asks for an emailed copy on friday morning, and he doesn't tell you that it doesn't work until the next next class on tuesday so you get him a hard copy of the paper on thursday (your next class) so you basically hand in a paper a week late and the professor never knows... (of course you dont even start the paper until wednesday night anyway )



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  • Reply 11 of 14
    shawnpatrickjoyceshawnpatrickjoyce Posts: 2,417member
    I'm well aware of what many of you try to do. My idea there is that if a professor is at least reasonably computer literate, he would be certain to enact safeguards against this kind of cheating.
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  • Reply 12 of 14
    fran441fran441 Posts: 3,715member
    In my current writing class, we were 'required' to go out and buy the latest version of Microsoft Office. Not just Word either, but the entire Office suite. I, of course, did not do so and she has been able to read my documents fine.



    The professor said she wanted all of our assignments turned in via email with the document attached so she could check the formatting that she wanted us to use and could use the spell checker to deduct points.



    Unfortunately, the teacher took this way too far when someone who had computer problems printed out their paper and brought it in, along with the file on a floppy disk. She said she would not give him credit unless it was emailed to her. I have no idea why. She said that the story about the ISP was probably 'made up' and that there was no excuse for not emailing it to her on time.



    She said something to the effect of, "You would get fired in the real world for not turning in your work if your email was down or not. There are no excuses."



    Kind of ridiculous considering he had the work right there. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
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  • Reply 13 of 14
    grad studentgrad student Posts: 184member
    I once took a computer graphics cource where we were supposed to draw a polygon in 2D and move it around with the keyboard. We were supposed to use an even-odd rule to draw the holes in the polygon correctly, but I had been seeing my girlfriend alltogether too often, and didn't get my code to work fully. So, for the demo I just quickly coded up another app that drew a bitmap of the way the polygon was supposed to look to the screen, and moved that around instead of using my polygon drawing algorithm. When I demo'd it, it looked perfect - AND I got extra credit because I included a mode where it would draw a textured polygon (just a different bitmap... an extra 2 lines of code). I submitted the code I wrote with perfect comments... the code was never really looked at, and I got 110 out of 100 with my extra credit .



    not quite the same as an extensionless apple works document, but it was coded on my mac
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  • Reply 14 of 14
    junkyard dawgjunkyard dawg Posts: 2,801member
    Hrrmmm. This won't work for real if the teacher is half-literate.



    I've had students pull this sort of thing on electronic assignments, and all I do is email them and tell them I need the assignment by the deadline. If they claim ignorance, then I help them get their computer working



    I had a student complain that they couldn't print out a paper once, so I had them email the document to me. Sure enough, it wasn't done.
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