| Ah, it’s all explained so clearly! | On Yahoo! Answers, it’s up to Them… | |
| 1 | One good way to figure what you’re in for is to look at the assignment sheet. If the symbols look too complex, you’ll need to copy a friend’s assignment, that’s the rule. So I looked, and there weren’t too many funny symbols. Mostly word problems. Unfortunately, I didn’t understand the words. So I Googled them. | For my next assignment, I decided to be the ne’er-do-well cheatin’ student, and let someone else do my work for me. I’d heard of Yahoo! Answers-where you post your questions and wait for someone to reply-and how delighted was I to see there was a section called “Homework Help”! |
| 2 | Turned out these were “statistics” problems. What is standard deviation? What is sigma? I did get answers to all these, but not too much on how to solve the problems themselves. The alarm bells are ringing in my head. | I didn’t bother to figure what the terms where all about: just put in my questions under Homework Help, and hoped for the best. I’m living dangerously, I know. Except I’d added a “PLEEEEZ HELP ME! :-(” at the end of my post. |
| 3 | Some soul-searching later, I had the idea that I’d just have to keep looking, hoping to stumble upon a tutorial or something. That’s what I did, and about an hour later, I’d found the general method to solve the problems. | Ten-yes, just ten-minutes later comes a mail saying “You’ve received a new answer to your question.” Yahoo! Someone had posted the solution to one of the problems! |
| 4 | Self-help needn’t be the best help, as they say, so I enlisted the help of a friend to explain that method to me. We worked together-through the night-and our assignment was ready. Hope we don’t each get half the marks! | The ecstasy and the agony! How was I to get the answers to the rest? The answers poured in, but three of them solved the first question again in a different way, and the rest were unkind: “Do ur own hw you ne’er-do-well cheatin’ student!” “U think I’ll spend time doing your homework?” |
| 5 | Who needs textbooks when you have the Net? I’m just so proud of myself I solved everything without knowing the name of my textbook! | So all I had to show was one problem solved. And here I’d thought someone, somewhere in the world would do it for me! Homework Help indeed! |
And The Winner Is…