Wharton friendship

FutureMan
Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:54:55 +0000

i agree with whartonalum. most people won’t step on their friends to improve their grade. keep in mind, classes don’t just have five people (especially the core classes) so the mentality of “either me or him” is not prevalant. In Accounting 101 there are about 700 students so getting a higher grade than one more student really doesn’t change your standing. on another note, do i believe that there are vultures? absolutely. but these people are everywhere. do i think its ridiculous when a random person i have never met comes up to me ten minutes before stat homework is due and asks me to explain the answers to her? definitely. The bottom line is I don’t know every student in that class and I certainly wouldn’t feel better inside knowing my friends did crappy on the midterm. I believe aj explained it well and his situation is very similar to my current situation. in many cases it actually feels more like you are competing against the teacher’s curve not the other students in the class so the teacher seems more like the villian. and i think that mentality brings students closer. when we sit around at 4:30am in a huntsman study room getting ready for the final we can all agree on at least one thing…the teacher is an a**hole for only giving 20% of the class A’s.