In response to the many debates on ugrad quality

[greatestyen]

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There is a difference between ‘rigorous’ and ‘cutthroat’. Cutthroat implies highly negative, social suboptimal behavior. For example, intentionally telling other students wrong information so that they get a test question wrong. Hiding library books or tearing pages out of library course materials so that other students can’t read them so that they get lower grades on the exam. Going to the bin where course homeworks are submitted and throwing away other student’s homework sets so that they get zeros (which therefore lowers the curve). That is cutthroat behavior that I don’t think has a place in any academic environment.

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<p>Indeed, I should have used the word “rigorous” as opposed to “cutthroat.”</p>