Sperber talks about how cheating has become an epidemic at large universities and how it seems ironic to cheat at a university where it is relatively easy to get a good grade on tests . I disagree with Sperber that he says it's easy to get a good grade. At universities like Penn State it is very difficult to get good grades anywhere. Of course with the right amount of studying and time spent on school work it can be easy to get good grades, but college is about living life or experiencing life. Attempting to do both is almost impossible, except for the few exceptions I believe. Something has to give here. Since grades are harder to achieve, this is where I believe the cheating comes into play. With all the stress posed by getting good grades and having a successful life after college, the urge to cheat is more prevalent. Along with college decisions, cheating has become easier and more widespread than before. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essayExcludes the possibility of students cheating out of desperation. I think this is the most common reason why students tend to cheat. When students don't know the answer to an exam or assignment, they tend to look at what others around them are writing and look for things online to help them. He also states that high grades are easy to get, so it's not worth spending time on students. I completely disagree with this statement, good grades are not easy to get and with all the pressure on students to get good grades this provides an even greater incentive to cheat. Schools don't exactly help solve the cheating problem either. Universities purposely create large classrooms to create more revenue, but in the process they create a better environment for cheating. The larger the classroom, the fewer people the TAs or professors can pay attention to. Students know that because there are so many people, the chances of them getting caught are minimal. Faced with the easy decision of whether or not to cheat, many students tend to cheat. Furthermore, saying that students cheat in protest or resistance against the university is nonsensical. I can't think of a time when I've heard a student say, "Oh, I'm going to cheat on this exam because the university doesn't care about us." Perhaps in 1900 students with a more rebellious nature might have done so, but in the present that idea is null and void. The mention of off-campus note-taking services to sell to students who don't go to class or online lecture notes was seen as cheating by one professor. In my opinion, if it is the same information provided by the professor, what is the difference? The professor still gets paid, the student is still learning as most are studying the material, and it shows that the students care enough about the class to purchase these notes. Finally, the idea that students cheat for the sake of it is idiotic. What kind of students would cheat if they knew the subject but wanted to get an adrenaline rush? This makes absolutely no sense to me. There are many other ways to get a thrill besides cheating on an exam. All in all, students cheat at colleges because colleges make bad decisions about class sizes, it's hard to get good grades, out of desperation, and it's easy to cheat. This is what I think is the most common reason why cheating is so prevalent in our schools today.