This started on 10/5/23 at about 3 p.m. I'm about halfway through my semester and I've gotten 20 Organic Chemistry mindless completion assignments... That is why I'm over it. it doesn't matter what you click you get 100% as long as you finish it! That sounds awesome in theory but... you open the assignment and it says it'll take 3 hours to complete. I'm sorry?! The first assignment had 131 different sections and each had give or take 10 questions per section. The website timed me and it took a grand total of 6 hours to read through and answer the questions all to find out that I wasted 3 hours of time actually attempting my homework and that it didn't matter and it was completion in the end. Oh, boy is that annoying.

My solution? a program that clicks through the questions for me. People use script programs like this all the time for gaming and actual jobs on extremely repetitive tasks because at the end of the day your hand WILL cramp after clicking the same button on a computer for 6 hours a day.

I don't think this is wrong as people do this all the time for repetitive tasks! But I know someone would consider this academic dishonesty. I am in contact with a few CS majors and I am slowly learning some CS language just to solve my problem of clicking for hours on end. Now that is my question for you... Is solving my problem of a repetitive meaningless task academic dishonesty? or at the very least a moral issue?

Some context on this is that the questions are completely random and not cheatable and everyone in the class that I've spoken to just clicks through the questions... The professor knows that we don't take it seriously all he's worried about is the reading part of the whole thing. Also to manage to cheat this would be crazy you'd have to blow up one of your classmate's phones with about 3k different questions and they most likely won't match up LOL.

So... Do you think I am wrong for making a script to make my life easier?

I am a philosophy minor as well as a mathematics minor so I might play some devil's advocate with you I am just genuinely curious about students' as well as post-grads opinions on the situation especially people who went through school during COVID! because academics have gotten more intense to make up for it as well and the students have been quicker to burn out and choose easier routes and using creative resources to get through homework faster.

My answer: just do the stupid assignement - It wont take 3 hours. Part of "adult" life (Shudders) is that sometimes you must do boring things. Cheating in any way, shape or form on this type of topic is not really worth it. Sit down with a cup of tea and buiscuits and crack on! you will be fine :)

I appreciate your reply. I do understand what you mean I should "just do it" and yeah maybe but I work full time and I'm also very far into my Chemistry undergrad... This means I'm taking Calculus 2, physics lab and lecture as well as organic chem lab and lecture which is a pain by itself on top of other classes for general education like languages and philosophy. It just feels like such a battle against the time that I do have to just exist. Which is the reason why I concocted this plan anyway. But maybe you're right I understand the idea behind "adult life" and just accepting the things you cannot alter. But I find a more ethical problem in just accepting 3,000 homework problems every 3-4 days for one class it's excessive. As well as working 30+ hours a week. I think every college student suffers but honestly, I just don't understand why we just have to accept the suffering as normal it doesn't feel normal in any way. Which point blank your comment is endearing and I love that and thank you. Maybe we are not supposed to understand why we have to accept ridiculous things :)