Friend advice

[Jack24]

Ok, so a friend of mine has been using this http://one-hour-essay.essayshark.com
Do I say anything? Not sure it's any of my business, although I would like to know how it's possible to write an essay in an hour...

Seriously though, anyone had any experience of this type of thing? Am I overreacting?

 

[Frezzato]

I wrote 10 papers for a friend when she was struggling in school. Without fail, she approached me the night before each paper was due, always with zero to very little work already completed. Hell, sometimes she didn't even have the required research materials on hand. So if I was willing to write these papers for fun (yes, FUN) then I don't see a problem with people making some money off of it.

I begrudgingly admit that it was dishonest of me (and her) but I remember the days of having papers assigned with little to no direction from professors. I also remember the parameters for her essays and most of the time they didn't make sense. They were a reflection of the reality in which most college professors live, and by that I mean they were half-assed assignments created by someone who was probably working two teaching jobs just to pay for the cost of their master's degree.

And besides, she was an accounting major; who cares if she genuinely appreciated the works of William Blake?

 

[Jack24]

I see your point, it could also be seen as a skill to recognize what you're not so good at and arrange for someone else to do it for you, that kind of thing is probably more useful later on in your working life than, like you say, being able to write about William Blake.
It's not something I'd heard about but I suppose that in this day and age, anything is possible with the internet.

 

[f1r2a3n4k5]

I would agree. It isn't really your place to interfere.

That being said, your friend is only hurting themselves. I mean, for what purpose would you pay good money to attend a course and then not extract every ounce of value you can from it, ya?

That would be like buying a book from the store and paying someone else to read it for you. You gain nothing from that.

Silly. Pointless. Wasteful. Lazy.

But students will be dishonest and students will cheat themselves of actual learning 'til the cows come home.