Purposely keeping this non-specific bc i go to a VERY (<4000) small school, as in my program has TWO professors that teach the whole thing, and the department has under 12.
This is a lower level required class that I put off taking forever. Anyway, the final was today, it was completely open-note due to the classes abysmal midterm scores. Bc of this I only studied for about 2 hours, and had 8 pages of notes (3 handwritten, 5 typed). I show up 20mins early, other people slowly start to shuffle in (mainly underclassmen, this is a lower level course), and I start to notice a good amount of people have absolutely no notes whatsoever.
The final starts, 35 questions, super easy stuff. I was 100% confident on all but four. About 5 mins into the exam I catch the kid to the left of me staring over at my paper. I look at him, then flip to a random page and start doing the exam out of order. He keeps looking over at me and is clearly trying to read off my paper. WTF... I ended up holding my exam at an angle where he couldn't see, but he absolutely did try every single time I would flip a page or put it down.
It really took everything in me not to write on the front page of my exam 'professor. xyz, please take note of who is sitting to the left of me and expect an email from me within the hour'. I didn't end up doing it bc I have no desire to be a witness to an accidemic integrity investigation.
I also observed this MF on his phone atleast twice, as well as FOUR OTHER STUDENTS ALSO ON THEIR PHONES. Like WHAT??? Maybe its just bc I havent taken a course with 18 y/o's in 2 years now, but this is just absolutely ridiculous & extremely demotivating.