Other Comments about Comments: The Double Libra and Kaavya Viswanathan Rising From The Ashes

5 Responses to “Other Comments about Comments: The Double Libra and Kaavya Viswanathan Rising From The Ashes”

1. Amber says on 4/29/06 at 2:55 pm:
   

   I am amazed she had the guts to do it, that she thought she wouldn’t be found out…Maybe she really believed she wrote it herself: I believe that’s possible. Last year something similar happened to me. A colleague of mine copy/pasted half a chapter of my PhD, which I had circulated for discussion, into her PhD, then emailed it to me and a couple of other people for comments!! She claims she really didn’t understand how my work ended up in her chapter. And strangely enough that might be true, some sort of cognitive dissonance. Not that I’m ever going to trust her with my work again ;-).

2. satori says on 4/29/06 at 7:50 pm:
   

   Amber… I had a friend from 15 on who would occasionally tell stories that were not her own. she’d be in the middle and my other friend would say, “LIBBY, that wasn’t YOU; that was ME!” honestly, it seemed completely guileless. she seemed unbalanced somehow– not the euphemism for crazy, just really, well, unbalanced. she was bright, witty and interesting on her own and needn’t have taken someone’s else’s material.

3. Dani says on 4/29/06 at 8:13 pm:
   

   Not that this compares to someone stealing one’s PhD or anything, but I plagiarized this year, five lines from a very obvious website for the topic I was covering. I would lose credit if the work that I didn’t have ready wasn’t done and had nothing for the teacher at that point. My friends say, “you idiot!” and most people ask me “what were you thinking?!” I respond that I have no idea why I thought such a stupid ploy would work, well actually I do. I was kind of riding on a stroke of luck (and a year of no self reliance and, as the teacher bluntly puts it, “self indulgence”). Speaking of blunt, I remember when you said that Sagittarians are blunt. I have an academic advisor that is a Sagittarius and one day, in between saying something last year said to me “you dish out a lot of crap” and moved right on. People really characterize her as extremely blunt.

   But as to the Double Libra who responded back, not to be obtuse or anything, but why do you think it was cool?

4. Lupa says on 4/30/06 at 6:31 am:
   

   Dani, I don’t know exactly what Elsa will say about why it’s cool but I think it’s entirely cool. The double Libra heard Elsa’s advice and saw truth in it. She looked at what she was doing in the situation, took responsibility and changed the situation. She found out something less than attractive about herself in that, owned up to it and fixed it. What’s more she came back and told us what she had done! For an astrologer (or advisor of any kind) it just doesn’t get better. The right piece of advice at the right time changed everything for the better and we all got to hear the story so the possibility of influencing others positively is still there.

5. Dani says on 5/1/06 at 10:23 am:
   

   Thanks Lupa!

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