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Molo · 03-10-2005, 08:11 AM

It must have been last semester in University. A friend and I had been working on an assignment together, though the assignment was an individual assignment. We handed it in, then the next day we received an e-mail from the course co-ordinator asking us to come in and discuss 'similarities' between our assignment.

Now we knew what we were doing wasn't entirely frowned upon, but they didn't enjoy it. It wasn't cheating because we didn't look at each others work, we just did it together.

But I'm one of those people who always assumes the worst of the situation, and it would definately be considered an academic offence. Now I go to university about 3000 km away from home, and my meeting was the next day, and I couldn't talk with my parents about it. I couldn't get any sleep I was so worried about the result. I called my mom at about 4 am, and started off ok, but just broke down mid-conversation because I was so worried about getting kicked out of university and such.

It was insanely stressful. We went in for our meeting and were told that we 'excessively collaborated'. So the end result was getting -100% on the assignment, and getting our names added to a list (the assignment was only worth about 2% of my mark, and the list is just a list of names so that if anything like this ever happens again, the punishment would be much more severe).

03-10-2005, 08:11 AM	#37 (permalink)
Molo Upright Location: Waterloo	It must have been last semester in University. A friend and I had been working on an assignment together, though the assignment was an individual assignment. We handed it in, then the next day we received an e-mail from the course co-ordinator asking us to come in and discuss 'similarities' between our assignment. Now we knew what we were doing wasn't entirely frowned upon, but they didn't enjoy it. It wasn't cheating because we didn't look at each others work, we just did it together. But I'm one of those people who always assumes the worst of the situation, and it would definately be considered an academic offence. Now I go to university about 3000 km away from home, and my meeting was the next day, and I couldn't talk with my parents about it. I couldn't get any sleep I was so worried about the result. I called my mom at about 4 am, and started off ok, but just broke down mid-conversation because I was so worried about getting kicked out of university and such. It was insanely stressful. We went in for our meeting and were told that we 'excessively collaborated'. So the end result was getting -100% on the assignment, and getting our names added to a list (the assignment was only worth about 2% of my mark, and the list is just a list of names so that if anything like this ever happens again, the punishment would be much more severe). __________________ Everyone on the Universal Serial Bus!