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In high school, I used to cheat occasionally by putting equations and such that I needed to remember into my TI83. I never went to the extent that some students went, tracking down other people's tests and then memorizing the answers or smuggling cheat sheets in with answers, but what I did was still wrong.
Then, in 11th grade, I had a reality check. I was working on a physics test, and I had some equations in my calc. I hadn't really studied enough, so they weren't even helping me. I was the last person in the room, and my teach came over, I think to see if there was any help he could give me, and he noticed my calculator. He looked through it, and took my test away.
The next day, he asked me to stay for a moment after class. He gave me a second chance, thankfully did not report me to the administration (colleges don't like cheating on your transcript), and let me take a different version of the test. The only condition was that I got half of whatever grade I actually earned on that test. So I studied my ass off, managed to pull a 99, and got a 50, instead of a 0. I realized how truly lucky I was, and I also realized that my teacher had given me a warning. I didn't cheat after that.
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I approach college much like a recovering alcoholic--one day at a time...
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