>>555323I have a master's degree.
I cheated on my thesis.
I put it off, a lot, I did research and some programming work but I basically had to write most of the code for my master's thesis in the last 24 hours before I had to present it. And I tried, I really did. But I couldn't get it working, and it was like 10 o clock at night and I had to present at 11 the next day.
So, I did the same thing that got me by since freshman year calc: I looked up the answers, and messed them up just enough to look authentic.
Well, not quite looking up the answers, but I already had theoretical predictions for the results I was supposed to get from my program. So I randomized the bounds a little bit, and generated random variables from the distributions that I knew the result variables were supposed to have. I mean, it took some level of sophistication and understanding of statistics to make it work, even if not the programming skill.
No one even questioned it, my advisor said I'd done a good job. I've never told anyone this IRL, and the computer with all my grad school files on it died recently, it's a tablet so there's no backup or taking the hard drive out or anything.
