Academic Memes

This is the programming equivalent of asking for McDonald's and your mom saying "we have food at home" — except the food at home is MATLAB. If you've ever had the misfortune of using MATLAB, you know it's that weird cousin of programming languages that engineers and academics love but actual software developers avoid like a production bug on Friday afternoon. It's powerful for math and matrices (hence the name), but coding in it feels like trying to build a website using only a scientific calculator. The $2000+ license fee is just the cherry on top of this engineering department nightmare.

Student innocently posts a command to read a test file, professor immediately sees through the scheme. Classic cat-and-mouse game between students trying to peek at test cases and professors trying to maintain academic integrity. The command would display the hidden test file that the autograder uses to evaluate submissions. Nice try, kid - you weren't the first CS student to think of this hack, and you won't be the last. The professor's deadpan response is giving me flashbacks to every time I thought I was being clever in college.