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Dear students,

Feel free to cheat as much as possible. I get paid either way, you get charged either way, and if you just want a piece of paper saying you attended a certain number of credit hours, who am I to stop you? Seriously, I don't care, and wasting my time trying to figure out whether you cheated is pointless. This is undergrad.

I would suggest that you get really good at cheating if you're going to do it because you will find that in your future career it's a skill that will serve you, but people get better at detecting it as you go along. I'm not here to teach you how to do it though. They don't pay me to do that.

I would also suggest that, since you're paying for this experience, you might consider actually learning the material I teach, because it's useful to know. You'll find that, in your future career, people who actually matter will care less about the piece of paper and more about the knowledge, though I admit many jobs won't. If you find yourself nice job which doesn't care whether you know anything and will pay you a decent wage, hold on to that job like your life depends on it, because it probably will.

I'm not going to do pointless nonsense like take attendance either. You're officially adults. You can take responsibility for your actions. If you don't show up, you won't learn the material and you will have wasted your money in that regard. I don't need to know why you didn't show up. You've probably got a good reason. It's none of my business.

If you use "artificial intelligence" to write your papers for you, I certainly hope you learn enough to tell whether it's just regurgitating garbage. If I get a paper which is regurgitated garbage, I'll grade it as such, whether it's because you didn't understand the material or you used an AI to write your paper. If I get an amazing paper, I'll secretly hate it if it's an AI, but I'll give it good marks.

You are not here to prove to me that you learned things. You're here to learn things. If you refuse to do that, you don't need to lie about it. All you're doing is wasting your money, and this isn't a course on money management.

Love,
Your professor