I have had uni professors sign books to make sure people actually bought new books and not used ones (he wrote them); unfortunately for him i had access to toluene to get pen ink off; did the same to all of my peers; Fuck those kind of professors
Do what happened if you bring a book to class already signed?
He threatened you to either buy a new book or he would make your uni career hell, one of my mates did it, at the last exam he sent him back 5 times, the last time he went to take the exam the coordiator said “what else have you got to ask to him; he told you everything in your course; [insert name] give me the paper” he signed the paper and sent him off; the prof. Still gave him only 60/100.
I still want to slap that piece of shit.
After that i taught other people in the uni to do that; he tried to mitigate by writing over the printed title of the book; hoping that any tampering would be evident; toluene didn’t touch the toner, so it didn’t work
Edit: grammar mistake (thanks mac)
Sounds like a pos.
Also that sounds very illegal, no complaints have been filed or anything?
Here in italy no one gives a quater of a fuck about that kind of shit. Good thing is that the same can be said when after the last exams he always needs to call a tow truck since he won’t have tires, not even cameras were able to stop them, and i’m quite sure other professors turn a blind eye to them since they also hate him.
I knew you were italian as soon as I read that lol. Basically my uni life too
hi 👋
just fyi:
“teach” is one of those words in English that has a different suffix for it’s past-tense: it is “taught”.
Eg. “They taught me to sew.”
“teached” is improper.Note: not to be confused with “taut” which is pronounced the same.
:)
I had originally wrote taught but i confused it with “pulling something tight” so i went with what would get the point across even if it was wrong.
Edit: fixed it now
Thank you for pointing out a mistake in a very polite way while being informative. You deserve an applesauce for making a better internet 👏.
Buy/collect used books off students after they finish the course… Remove the ink, resell undercutting him by a ton and make a huge profit!
Nah I’m fine with spreading how to remove the sign, there are already enough people capitalizing on education here
God bless this professor. Piracy is a victimless crime!
Aaar, matey.
The name of my Plex server has been “The Pirate’s Booty” for about a decade 😂
Piracy is a victimless crime, most of the time.
This reminds me of when Weird Al told Canadian (or maybe Australian?) fans who wanted to watch his movie, “there’s Very Probably No way to do this. I know you probably have a TORRENT of questions, but I don’t have time to answer them right now.”
Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge To break international copyright law By downloading MP3’s from file sharing sites Like Morpheus or Grokster or LimeWire or KaZaA
I paid $1000 for books my first semester of college back in 2007. I felt so burnt and violated I never bought another textbook. I made it through the rest of undergrad, a masters, and a PhD in biochemistry by checking out books from the library, borrowing textbooks from friends, and going sailing. When I taught I made it a point to teach my students about all the ways they can avoid becoming a victim like myself.
What could you have possibly learned from sailing though?
There’s a lot to be learned at sea, lad.
The only sea I sail is the digital sea
I can’t tell if you actually are confused or not, so I’ll just answer as if you are: the original poster WAS alluding to pirate-actions.
It was SO smooth I literally just thought “Ah must be nice having a boat to go clear one’s head on the waves once in a while since you’re not hustling to pay for all them textbooks.”
Whooshed me like a salty breeze, it did. XD
Lol! Dang rich kids and their rich kid problems!
based professor
Asus had some different ideas about libgen.rs 😯
Yo control your router lol (freshtomato or openwrt or something might be good options)
Seconding the recommendation for OpenWRT - I’ve been using it for years on my routers.
To be fair it might actually be possible to find smut there.
You’re probably correct. It’s the Internet. The Internet is for porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=LTJvdGcb7Fs
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Perfect professor fr
Unfortunately many courses now give assignments through sites that are only accessible by purchasing a textbook with a unique access code
So in every other country if they tried something like that, students would kick up shit, government would step in and sort it
So it’s either, too pussy to stand up for yourselves, or you’re living in a dictatorship
Which is it? 😂
i don’t know who’s downvoting you. As an american who had to go through that shit, you’re not at all wrong.
North American here. Funny how it’s very much less “which is it?” And more “Yeah. Basically.”
We’ve been culturally domesticated to not cause trouble for our bosses / schools / etc. If the State steps in after you cause trouble for enterprise, it’s usually to kick you back into your place.
We might not live in a State dictatorship, but that only matters so far, because that State enables many tiny, petty dictatorships that more directly affect your life and run amok unopposed.
Somehow people accept petty tyranny in everything from corporations to universities to shifts at the burger joint. They’ll get all riled up that some politician they never met is bawking about foreign policy, but their tail is tucked firmly when their company tells them they can’t get sick days and arriving a minute late is a fireable offense.
Many have bought the lies of rugged individualism and competition. “An insult to one is…well, that really sucks for you but I told you to just stay quiet. I’m just working hard doing what I’m told.”
Like someone said before me: Even the most rebellious in us think twice about making our move, because many people simply think “That’s how it is.” And don’t believe it can get any better.
There’s not a lot of examples of collective action winning in recent history, so a lot of people don’t even know how to begin to push back in the first place, besides writing an angry tweet or two.
A professor at my university tried that, but the students quite quickly made a huge fuss, got the principals office involved, and the universities lawyers informed said professor that what she was doing was illegal, and that she should stop before she got any more trouble. She stopped.
Your university has a principal’s office?
Possibly a poor translation from my side: I’m referring to the “head office” of the university, i.e. the group of people under the direct leadership of the principal, who have the highest administrative authority at the university.
Sites like that saved me thousands getting my psych degree. God bless professors like this. Also the ones who were like, “the new edition of the book you need for this semester is $500, but you can get the previous edition for $5 at this site. Here’s copies of the pages that were changed.” or “I photocopied every page you need for this semester from the book for all of you.”
I bought some textbooks for university.
Ended up not using most of them.
Most computers science students are used to computers, internet and StackOverflow.
Not paper.
Here is a PDF of the book you need for this course, you may not share it and the file will self destruct the day after finals. Thanks for the $150
The younger teachers were doing something similar to this. Teachers have to follow certain sets of rules to not get fired.
It was mostly the oldest, gray-haired teachers that were requiring textbooks. Stuck in their old ways.
At least you OWN the text book and can reference it years later. That PDF scam was a real piss off
Textbooks that are good references are great. Textbooks that are just another class and withhold the answers are garbage.
There’s nothing wrong with paper books.
I never said there’s something wrong with paper books.
I’m even reading one right now. Lord of Rings paper version.
But for computer science students textbooks, it’s heavy, inconvenient and spacey.
The internet or even PDFs are better.
Why?
It’s easier to do research, CTRL+F and copy/paste some programming code.
If you’re copy pasting code you’re not learning a whole lot.
You’re clearly not a programmer lol
Copy pasting code is THE WORST way to learn how to program.
In one of my uni courses, I found a free copy of the required textbook and posted a link to it on the forum in the LMS saying “Hey prof, is this the correct textbook?” By the time the prof responded and politely took my message down a week later, everyone had helped themselves to a copy.
A creative way to tell a student how to download a free book while telling them “not to”. The professor probably just wants to teach and is as tired of the university bullshit as the students.
The California Community College I went to allowed you to filter classes in the schedule by whether they offered ZTC - Zero Textbook Cost or OER - Open Educational Resource.
- Use Anna’s Archives
- Wikipedia Library
- Wosonhj
A professor of mine sent me a similar email when I said I was having trouble accessing some journals through the University library portal:
“One should definitely not use Sci-hub, if you catch my drift.”
Too bad it doesn’t have the latest papers. annas-archive is supposed to be growing that database, though.
