Did You Ever Cheat On A Paper In High School Or College?

[THUNDER HANDS]

Poll question: Did You Ever Cheat On A Paper In High School Or College?

I did.

'Fess up.

[HEyHEY]

1. Nope

never absoloutely not....man that felt good. O8)

[Kamika]

2. i admt

I voted sometimes.


I also turned in complete paper about hitler ripped from the net, and got an A.

Anyway school hell is over!!

[Loyal]

3. haha

nt

[Dogmudgeon]

4. No, never

It was just too easy to write the damn thing myself and get it out of my life.

Once I learned how to type, organize my notes, and decided to get down to it rather than put it off, I was able to crank out major term papers in a single evening. There's really no trick to it, just facing the project at hand and doing it.

If you want another point of view, just pester Will Pitt. He's a schoolteacher AND a best-selling writer. I'm sure he'll tell you something like "just get down to it and beat it into submission".

--bkl

[Kamika]

6. Tell that to a dylectic

Writing a paper for me was like writing a NOVEL.

If it hadnt been for audio books i would have shun books forever

[JVS]

5. Hell no.

I would never trust anyone to write a paper better than I could do it myself. I have engaged in a good deal of collaboration doing math problems, my friends and I sit in a room and do stuff at the board. Then we all copy down the same thing, but the teacher seems cool with it. I once read a few papers off of the temp file at the computer lab to get an idea of what others were writing about in a class, but I wrote about something different. I just wanted to see what people were thinking about.

[Friar]

7. I never had to

I usually had read the text book within a month for all my classes and listened attentively and aced the exams (except math, at which I sucked). Unfortunately, I refused to do homework so I got mostly Cs while skewing the grading curve. Go figure. My teachers used to rag on me for underachieving. They were probably right. I was a lazy student. I just liked to read and I was a good listener.

[tridim]

8. Never did, but..

In my sophomore year in college I had to write a paper on 'The Odyssey'. I put it off for so long that the night before it was due I just said f*ck it and got really stoned, scribbled down three pages of psycho babble and handed it in. I got an A on it! There is no way the TA read it, because it made absolutely no sense and was obviously written in an altered state. Technically I didn't cheat, but it sure felt like I did. :)

[Awsi Dooger]

9. Yes, as a junior in college

I had this awesome new girlfriend and was correctly prioritizing her amazing face, hair and chasis.

That semester I took an investigative reporting journalism class, taught by a very aggressive reporter. He had done many high profile investigations, including hired by Playboy to write about the murder of playmate Dorothy Stratten.

The class grade was heavily weighted on our final paper, an investigative piece we were supposed to work on all semester. The prof gave us several weeks off to work on it. I had a lead about some corruption in a local business, but my source chickened out late so I was stuck.

About 3 days before the paper was due, I solicited my roommate for help. He had written many annoying and critical letters to the editor to the student newspaper, which I worked for. My brainstorm: use those letters as justification to investigate him.

My roommate drew sketches of his home. We went there and took pictures. He gave me all his ID numbers, and plenty of personal history like old schools and work records. I talked to my roommate's mom and chatted with a neighbor, insignificant questions but just in case.

Then I wrote it up like a devious and extended investigation, applauded by other members of the student newspaper. After I turned it in, seemed like forever before my class grades arrived for the semester. Admittedly I was worried. There was plenty of room for the tale to be checked and proven phony.

Finally a package arrived. My paper from the prof, and I'll never forget the exact words attached to a little card: "A+++. You did a really sweet job of invading this guy's privacy. Hey. Hey Hey."

[devilgrrl]

10. I was a horrible student...

It wasn't for personal gain or to get a "good school", I just hated high school so much I did anything just to get the f*** out of there! :spank: Makes :puke: when I think about it but I haven't had to cheat since as I get a great deal of joy from taking classes, studying and writing papers as an adult. :shrug:

[Rocinante]

11. No

but a young lady next to me in Biology class in college tried to cheat by peeking at my paper during a test. I managed to block her view before we got caught. She was a nice person and pretty too, but I couldn't risk getting thrown out of school.

[DoNotRefill]

12. Never, sort-of....

I once turned in a test that was blank, except for my name and a statement that I cheated off of my buddy's paper (he sat way across the room from me, but we'd agreed beforehand to do the same thing). They got HIGHLY pissed. :)

That's the closest I've ever been to cheating...

[Ellen Forradalom]

13. No

and my see-sawing grade history reflects it :-)

[VOX]

14. No, I was lucky, writing comes fairly easily to me...

But the blessing comes with a curse. Because I know I could do it, I habitually procrastinated, and usually pulled very late- or all-nighters writing the damned things.

[Piperay]

15. Gee, I am surprised so many

people never cheated, I did, anyway sort of. I had a paper I had to write in college, the teacher gave a list of books and you choose the book and subject you wanted. I choose "Puritanism in America", I read the book again and again but I just couldn't get enough out of it to make a decent report. I finally dug up what I needed out of my family's World Book enclopedia that was about 20 years old. It was practically word for word from the enclopedia and I got an A on the paper and this after the teacher said he could always tell when things were taken straight out of a book. :shrug: I felt sort of guilty, but I did read the book and more than once, I guess I found puritanism too boring and not to my liking. :boring:

[mitchum]

16. No...and anyone who cheats on a college paper has no business...

being there

[cally]

17. No, but I once

fudged on references which I still have occasional nightmares about. I was the worst typist and I probably typed 18 words a minute in college. I was writing a paper on the revolutionary war and why the rights of women were not included. I was using two original articles and I mixed up the references. So everytime I quoted one source, I was actually quating the other one. It was about 2 in the morning when I figured it out and I just decided to turn it in because noone would ever know. I didn't plagiarize but still I knew I had totally messed up. It was a class in political philosophy which was a Senior Seminar and I had never taken a political science class before. I was totally intimidated and just assumed that I would get a passing grade and that would be it. Ha.

I take my final and go to turn it in to my TA. She looks at my name and she says, "You're 'Cally', I loved your paper. I passed it around to all my fellow peers and a few professors and I want to look up your references." Shit. I never made that mistake again.

[Vitruvius]

18. Never!

n/t

[curse10]

19. Nope

I always thought it was easier to do my own work than try to steal someone's work, which was never up to par anyway.

[bicentennial_baby]

20. Hell no

[FlashHarry]

21. Nope. Turned more than a few in late, though.

Always had a good excuse...