Re:EECS Grad Students Opinion: This makes me sad. (Score 1)

I'm actually much more cynical and less naive in real life than the above post would seem to indicate so I don't think I'm fucked. That still doesn't make it any less sad that a majority of people are acting without any serious regard to ethics. I'd really like it if at some point all the crap stopped and everyone started working with the technology more than socially engineering their way up the ladder, but I am a realist at heart and know this will never be the case. If anything, being a bit of an idealist just makes it easier to be terribly cynical and sad about the state of things.

As far as being screwed over by my peers I guess I just always thought the people screwing me over would be from one of the stereotypically unethical backgrounds (who are apparently not really that much worse or better statistically than engineers at not cheating).