Sometimes the projects of graduate students surprise me.  I am not talking about ridiculous topics for studies, but rather ones that are insightful.

Over the past number of years, there have been a few that have stood out.  One of the better ones in the past year was one about a person’s perception of whether a route was a shortcut or not.

But that was awhile ago.  But on Friday, another student came up with a brilliant idea – he was going to see how many students order essays.

The study would start with the college application essay and include everything up to graduate studies (including MBA essays).  It will be the first time that there is a serious study regarding the increase of purchased essays being submitted as student’s own work. 

It will be interesting to see how the results turn out, but it will be a couple of years before the doctorate student in question will be able to show us his results.