This gives me strong Samir! You are breaking the car! vibes.
this can’t be real
Have you ever worked in academia? This kind of email could definitely be real, not saying this one necessarily is though
I have never worked in academia, but I’ve spent time around academics and have read plenty of emails in both academic and corporate contexts … this particular one looks fake, even if the circumstances of plagiarism are common - this just not seem like how a thesis adviser would address this kind of plagiarism with a grad student
This is the second post today with an over-the-top reply to a student named Faith but yeah could be real
Sounds like you would be shocked by the reality if the situation.
This one almost certainly isn’t because of both the jocular tone and the several other “emails to Faith” posted in this comm recently, but indeed they are drawing on the true experiences of graduate students.
Googled the Professor, found plenty of Screenshots like this and an article from 2022
Wait but… is that actually a thing in Kenya? I only have heard first hand accounts of school systems in a handful of countries in Africa (not Kenya, mostly west side) but consistently I’ve been shocked by either the severity of punishment for basically any form of failure or dishonor or for the prevalence of fear as the administrative motivator-of-choice. (One was just a few months ago I think in c/offmychest where a high schooler was describing their beatings for tardiness, bad grades, and other minor infractions. I think I commented on it.) Maybe they’re for real?
ETA: a bunch of them were from my calc I and calc III professors who were both from (different) African countries but regaled us with stories of the brutality so we knew how good we had it lol (they were good teachers, just a little unhinged, as some math educators are).
26% isn’t concerning to anyone with a brain unless you’re doing some real novel shit. That moronic program will toss that out for citing a title.
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First the rainbow tables, now this. This must be an interesting thesis, even if its academic value might be … questionable.
Would it actually be an arrestsble offence though?
Depends on the country, I think some actually do criminally punish fraud on the public research dime.
I know there are countries where the government can revoke your PhD if you fuck up enough.
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