reading response #4

     online articles 

          The two articles I read were a humorous one about college and a more serious one about plagiarism.  The first article about college written by Dave Barry was in a way making fun of college and saying you don’t actually learn things just memorize it long enough to test over it then move on. The second article over plagiarism written by Trip Gabriel was about cases where kids in college had been caught plagiarizing and how it is becoming a huge deal in today’s society with the internet and kids not understanding that using other peoples words without giving credit is wrong.

            I really enjoyed the first article I thought it was funny and gave a different view of college then what you normally here from adults. The second article was informative and I like that I’m learning these things now so that later in college I won’t be caught in a bad situation for doing something I didn’t know was wrong. 

“PSYCHOLOGY: This involves talking about rats and dreams. Psychologists are obsessed with rats and dreams. I once spent an entire semester training a rat to punch little buttons in a certain sequence, then training my roommate to do the same thing. The rat learned much faster. My roommate is now a doctor. If you like rats or dreams, and above all if you dream about rats, you should major in psychology.” –Dave Barry on College

I picked this quote because I plan for my major in college to be psychology. And even though this isn’t everything that is involved in the subject in my psychology classes this year we have already talked about dreams and rats. So I could relate to what he was saying and he made it funny to see psychology from that point of view. I also choose the picture because it is basically the definition of plagiarism which is what the second article was talking about. I feel like if one of these was hanging on the door of every classroom more students would be aware of what it was and how not to do it.