All Final Papers in Memetics Course Plagiarized

 

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(Austin, TX) - Flagsdon College in Austin offers classes on memetics, or "memes" for short. There is a consistent problem in the classes that wouldn't seem that hard to predict. Professors are finding it hard to curtail the copious amounts of plagiarism they are finding in the work students hand in.

"The final exam was an essay question about whether or not the students found memes to be more indicative of currents within culture or influences upon it. Every single paper I graded was some iteration of the same paper. Same sources. Same quotes. Same thesis. Not only did the students not do any thinking of their own, they didn't even seem to feel the need to hide the fact that they weren't. It's crazy. I've never seen anything like this in my life, and I used to work in public school."

Students, however, had plenty to say in response. Graham Yustid is a junior and doesn't seem to mind a poor grade.

"Oh, that class? Yeah. I took it for, I don't know, some kind of credit. The thing is, it's like, I don't even really need to get a specific degree, so long as I have one. Companies are a lot more interested in hiring people they can rely on as indebted to a system. I mean, if they know that your student loan Shylocks are coming for you, they'll totally hire you because then they own your ass. It was, like, that or join the Marines, I guess," he said after taking a drag on a Parliament and a sip from his PBR.

A lot of professors are having trouble keeping up with the students as many of them have been grafted into the program from other disciplines.

"One of my students sold a picture of the syllabus online as an NFT," said Dr. Richard Pleeker. "I was actually really impressed with how well she seemed to have understood the class and its utility. What I hadn't expected was that it fetched more than I make in a year."

Raven Jefferson, the student in question, had this to say about the NFT and the class that she took on memes:

"Really? Memes? I took the class because I thought it was going to be about something. Sort of like why I came to school here. Guess what? It's not. It's stupid and pointless. Everything else in this crazy society just seems to be another way to get into debt, to have to work some drone job, to be a cog in a machine that keeps expanding itself. People talk about the potential energy consumption that Block Chain creates, but the truth is that if we didn't have such a stupidly capitalistic system, we wouldn't even be worried about crap like this. Oh, and you can take my statement, write it down, screenshot it, and make an NFT that - for no reason in particular - some idiot will buy. Why? Because I'm hot. That's it."