Pryor's Resarch Paper on Research (MUST READ!)

Submitted by AKMuskie on
Terrelle Pryor Research is the most used resource to finding out something you need from school papers to things you want to buy. Research is also used to find cheaper shopping supplies. For instance one store may have had a pricey type of material one was looking for and the other store you researched was a couple dollars cheaper. Coming out of high school I was thinking to my self what I wanted to do for a living and what I wanted to major in to start the quest for my job. Research is also used to find shopping cheaper shopping supplies. I used the research process to find out what type of job specific major I wanted to major in and what type of job I wanted to do when I graduated from college. I researched different types of jobs, Criminal justice, business, communications, and education. I came up with criminal justice but couldn’t decide between business and criminal justice. I did research on business and did their pros and cons. Then, I did the pros and cons of criminal justice. I came up with in the business world you can either have a good chance at the type of business you want to start or a bad business that won’t sell or bring in money. Another part of my research I did was the most important factors in the business, was what they want for what they can afford and is there a profit that can help me out to make some extra money.The availability of the job openings, the job entails, the pay hours. I looked up also whether I would have to be in school for along time or not to get a job. Also my personal enjoyment in the job would I love to do every day I woke up to go to work. With out research I would not have been able to get these types of information for the job that I want to do for the rest of my life. If one would just go and do something with out researching first they could’ve missed something that could have later benefited later on or benefited one more then the other.
Apparently this was found by an OSU student after realizing that Pryor hadn't logged off! Here's the facebook group (currently at 2,432 members). I know he's an athlete, but c'mon, he's a COLLEGE STUDENT! If he had been at Michigan for 3 semesters, it might've been a different story. Yikes...
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Maximinus Thrax

December 10th, 2009 at 4:21 PM ^

It was some kind of parallel e-mail to whatever the hell the program used to be at UM (late 1990's). All that was necessary was that a user be logged on to the computer. There was no further password protection. You could simply click on the Mulberry icon and have access to private e-mails, as well as the ability to send them. I would often sit down at an unoccupied computer, find it logged in, and proceed to read whatever tawdry e-mails there were. Once I sent a friend of mine a violent, threatening e-mail from one of these accounts, with the intention of telling him about it soon thereafter. A few weeks later he mentions that he was having some trouble with a threatening e-mail, and had contacted DPS about it. I informed him of my joke. Didn't want to get an innocent bystander in trouble.

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Tim Waymen

December 10th, 2009 at 3:21 PM ^

I made some jokes, we shared some laughs, it was fun. I'm not innocent because I took part in joking about Terrelle Pryor's paper. But I am rather bothered by someone posting TP's work online. It's kind of an invasion of TP's privacy. Say what you want about the state of college athletics and academic standards and how inappropriate this level of writing is for a college student, but at the end of the day, this is still TP's personal business and I believe that we should try to respect his privacy. Not to blame the victim, but TP should remember to log off in the future. But this also makes me wonder, what if TP had simply gotten up from his computer to go to the bathroom, for example, rather leaving and forgetting to log off? That would be more troubling. I wouldn't post anyone else's bad schoolwork on the internet. It's unfortunate that the guy at OSU who did this to TP doesn't feel the same way when it comes to athletes. Please understand that I am quite aware of how much of a hypocrite I sound like. My issue is mostly with the guy who posted the paper, but I feel a little guilty about giving it attention.

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michelin

December 10th, 2009 at 4:48 PM ^

I share your discomfort with the posting of a somebody's school "research" paper on the net. At the same time, it's more than mildly irritating when: -UM academics get smeared in a four part series of articles by the AA News (with questionable methods and no credible evidence of NCAA violations) -OSU takes one substandard player after another and skates. TP's paper is the tip of a giant iceberg here. Chris Gamble scored below the basic literacy level on the NFL's aptitude test after three years of "academics" at OSU, one more than TP. As I recall, MoClarrett said that he was given preferential treatment in not having to meet the same standards as other students (eg walking right out of an exam and later being able to take an oral exam). Many other academic improprieties were detailed by a teaching assistant--who then then was called "mentally ill," received death threats, was fired, and was driven out of Ohio, while an internal "investigation" within OSU completely cleared the program of any accusations. (coincidentally, none of the faculty on this committee were fired as was the dissenting TA) So, while I do feel some moral discomfort about seeing TP's paper on the net, it pales in comparison to the moral disgust I feel about the uneven field of media scrutiny that we've been playing on.

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Seth9

December 10th, 2009 at 6:39 PM ^

He badmouthed the university that (rightly) effectively kicked him out of NCAA football for his criminal activities. He has been in and out of jail since and has failed as a football player. Whatever he says about OSU is questionable.

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michelin

December 10th, 2009 at 7:21 PM ^

Also, I found Wojo's column last week interesting. Cryptically, he alluded to what must go on when NCAA representatives get too chummy with the schools being investigated and when the school reps have close ties with people on the NCAA committees. Was he referring to what happened at OSU? The AD hired at OSU around the time of the OSU investigation of the Clarrett allegations had been on the infractions committee (in fact, I think a chair of it at some point). To go to OSU, he was paid a salary of about a half million a year--more than a 30%raise over the previous AD, as I recall. Wojo raised the question: at what point might a school tell an NCAA official about the possible interest of the school in the official's candidacy for an important job? I found that very interesting.

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Wendyk5

December 10th, 2009 at 3:39 PM ^

When I was at U of M back in the 80's, my roommate had Gary Grant in several of her classes. Her favorite story about him: one day he sat next her and in the middle of class, leaned over and asked, "How you spell 'bum'?" To which she replied, "Like, a hobo?" He said "yeah", and so she spelled it for him. Tyrelle Pryor is one of many, and they're everywhere, not just at OSU.

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Jinxed

December 10th, 2009 at 4:13 PM ^

you guys think that's bad? Try being the only true bilingual guy among your group of friends.. who all happen to be taking 200-level Spanish classes. (after taking 4 years of Spanish in high school of course..) I'm convinced high school language classes are a waste of time.. the Dept of Education should just give up on that one...

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Seth9

December 10th, 2009 at 6:44 PM ^

Most high school foreign language classes are inherently problematic in that a lot of people take them and don't learn the language much at all (I include myself here, but thankfully, I'm in engineering school). However, what we are talking about is the significantly more important area of general reading comprehension and writing ability in English.

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bronxblue

December 10th, 2009 at 4:26 PM ^

While this is funny, and I do agree with the sentiment that the kid who posted this to the web should be fitted for his own asshat, it also reminds me of those random times in Angell Hall when I had to print something and stumbled upon some rather, um, linguistically-challenged papers in the printer from other students. And if memory serves me right, at least one was a backup to the UM basketball team. Pryor is an easy target, but figuring out who is a good athlete and a good student can create a rather goofy Venn diagram.

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jarjar

December 10th, 2009 at 5:01 PM ^

If it was Pryor's paper it would be saying: "I used the research process to find out what type of job specific major I wanted to major in and what type of job I wanted to do when I graduated from college. Then I remembered that I'm an unstoppable athlete and will be playing in the NFL, not making profits at business or criminal justice." I'm all for athletes half-assing their work if they're good enough to make a career out of their ability. They don't need to learn how to write boring papers on research, unless that happens to be their hobby. I know that colleges want all their students to become well rounded individuals and I think Pryor will get that training, it'll be on the football field though. Pryor probably spends like 60-70 hours a week on football right? I wish college had taught me to work that hard. I'm sure he understands how to be a team player far better than the average college graduate too. The thing that strikes me the most is that everything I learned getting my chemistry degree, I could have learned from Wikipedia. Working in research labs was important though. That was the best part of my education.

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Tha Stunna

December 10th, 2009 at 6:23 PM ^

You can learn organic chemistry from Wikipedia in the same level of detail as you get from the U of M class? (I assume you're a U of M graduate.) While I have many, many issues with the way Orgo was taught at U of M, it's still more in-depth than Wikipedia. Wikipedia does have high-quality chemistry articles however; no one cares enough to vandalize them or write false information.

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A Case of Blue

December 10th, 2009 at 10:53 PM ^

From someone who's taught at another Big Ten university, a little inside information: by no means are athletes the only people turning in work of this quality. I'm not going to lie, it seems to me kind of unfair to me that in order to do professionally what he is best at, Terrelle Pryor (and lots of other dudes) has to attend college for at least three years.

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