Being a college student for over a decade now, I hear a lot of criticism of the university system from my peers that frequently just comes off as, “I want to spend the rest of my life getting fucked up and sleeping in.” But this conversation between an adjunct professor and a “professional essay writer” highlights some legitimate bullshit and hopelessness inherit not just in the university system but in the reality of living in a dying economy. This passage was particularly enlightening:
C: Now, I’m not saying there’s no virtue in forcing people to take classes in things they aren’t interested in. But plagiarism is going to happen in a society in which you are told, “This is something you need to do in order to have the life you want, and in order to have the life you want there are things you must do that you don’t want to do, and may even be incapable of doing. Now, we don’t really care where you went to high school, and we can’t speak to the quality of your English professors. So, here, write a paper about philosophy. And if you cheat, we will fucking expel you.” But if you don’t cheat, you’ll get a D, which is as good as being expelled. And that’s a rock and a hard place.
