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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was an earlier poster who was a happy, social Hopkins undergrad.  Not aware of any cheating when I was there, not does Hopkins have a reputation for such.  The grad students on the undergrad campus were pretty nerdy themselves, and not really people I would take advice from with respect to any social aspects of college life.[/quote]

I think this is an accurate description of some of the grad students; there are also a lot of foreign grad students.  But I don't think those super nerdy and foreign grad students cared much about the well-being of the undergrads.  They often had experienced similar environments for their undergrad experience.  However, the grad students that cared about the (not small) set of students with an unhealthy relationship to learning (ie - getting ahead of others at all costs) and the school's lack of messaging on this point do not fit into your description.  And remember, as noted above, there were healthy undergrad students there like you....we weren't worried about you...

We were worried about the others that would come after every test and argue for points (like I have a 98% and want a 99%), and those that would take a final exam (or test) at a different time from the rest of the class so that they could take it in a room at the professors department.  In our department, that was the graduate student library - and we had multiple cases of students blatantly opening books and notes during their exam to cheat...right in front of grad students (which was always reported immediately).  Even more, the professors most often would give them the lowest possible "passing" grade for that test/exam and when the prof would leave, the undergrads would appeal to the grad students to ask the professor to give them a higher grade because they wanted to apply for grad school and didn't like how it would look on their transcript.  This happened more than once. It was so unhealthy and we always wished the school would provide more guidance on honor.   [/quote]

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