Talk me through, like, the typical thing you'd have to do to write a fake essay.

I didn't have to become an expert in this subject.

Like, if it's geology or, you know, the price of cars in Connecticut or gingivitis, whatever, [laughs] whatever it is that I had to learn about that day, I just had to become good enough to sound like a student in your class.

In fact, there were occasions when a student would say, "Can you dumb it down a little bit?"

According to Dave, the demand for his services reflected a much deeper trend.

Desperation, pure desperation.

Back in the day, only the elites, uh, went and got their classical education at college.

But now, college is what you pay for to get a degree to be able to get a job and compete in this economy with, like, everybody else.