<p>I'm very tough emotionally. I don't crack under pressure. I can't even remember the last time I cried. I prefer to move on in life. Thinking about your emotions gets you nowhere.</p>
<p>You don't understand the situation. Reread the OP's post before making asinine judgments. We have ALL cheated. Cheating is stealing. We've all STOLEN.</p>
<p>No one is perfect, not even the all-mighty Garrity. We are humans, we make mistakes. Go lay down, rest and stop getting so worked up over this.</p>
<p>Jman: Nobody is trying to be rude to you.Please calm down. I have shown you respect by responding truthfully to your sarcastic comments.You are young and you are way too emotional,but that is not uncommen for teens. this is not meant to insult you.</p>
<p>However,it is you that needs to re-read the threads.</p>
<p>Read your posts. You are getting hyped up over these posts. You are emotional; you are angry. </p>
<p>I thought you were going to sign off?</p>
<p>Jman: Now you are just trying to make me laugh.Congratulations! You have succeeded.</p>
<p>I feel like I'm talking to a 4 year old. You aren't posting constructively. It's a waste really. I like to have mature conversations; it's not happening here.</p>
<p>Jman:Thank you for your observation. I think it best that we just agree to disagree.</p>
<p>Well, have fun pestering the OP. This thread should have died along time ago.</p>
<p>Well, i have to admit i have cheated a few times. Its kind of natural, BUT STEALING A TEST!!! Even if i could get my hands on a test, i would never steal it. it just makes me feel bad inside. Just use notes and put them under your sleeves, under your shirt, between your legs, on your arm, under your TI calculator lid, on your palm, etc. I say that you say that you cannot remember how he looked like. but still, there is no possible excuse that can let you avoid a possible suspension or lost of class credit.</p>
<p>^ Trust me, teachers know every trick in the book. They're not stupid like you think they are. My trig teacher back in high school told us to put our TI lids under our desks. </p>
<p>Do not lie about it. Just admit you made a mistake and deal with the consequences. It's that simple. Lying will just escalate the problem.</p>
<p>the ONLY way ive ever cheated is by typing notes on my TI-84 using the alpha key in the spot where you enter the equations to graph...who would ever look there?</p>
<p>Why would you need a calculator during a History exam? (For example) I think they'd be suspicious of that...at least at the university level. There are faciliatators who walk around the rows.</p>
<p>erato, IMO, i think you should just tell you principal straight up that it was you. Just calling out someone's name is not right. And, I think that the teachers know that it was you, and they're testing your honesty by doing this. So just be yourself, and confess, and be calm. Don't worry about your recommendations, just try to redeem yourself again. You cannot do anything much about them. Also other CCers, erato knows what he has done wrong, and you don't need to shove it up in his face. If at all y'all are gonna post in such forums, please do so constructively.</p>
<p>Good Luck, and please, learn your lesson.</p>
<p>jesus, i'd hate to go to school with some of you in this thread (or just be acquainted with you). some of y'all are acting like he did the worst thing in the world.</p>
<p>to the o.p, good luck. i agree that you made it worse by lying and should've been upfront from the beginning, but might as well follow through now and hope you don't get caught. i wouldn't advise accusing another person though...you'll have to live with it.</p>
<p>in the big scheme of things...it's not the end of the world.</p>
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You'd be every college cheater's dream then. There are NO second chances in college PERIOD. You either flunk the exam/paper, flunk the course, or get thrown out of the university. (Also professors will push to have the cheating incident noted in your record.) Let this be a lesson for the OP because high school isn't as harsh as college in terms of cheating.
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<p>Not really. Often professors don't want to bother with all the paperwork and stuff and just let the student off. They might see people, for example, sharing calculators, but they'd simply tell them to put the calculators away because (a) it's not worth the trouble to accuse them (b) often there's not enough evidence to claim the students were cheating. I have friends who are professors and have done this in the majority of cases.</p>
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jesus, i'd hate to go to school with some of you in this thread (or just be acquainted with you). some of y'all are acting like he did the worst thing in the world.
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<p>I'd hate if you attended my college and you're a classmate in my huge lecture hall. It may not be a big deal in high school, but in college it's a different story. I don't like cheaters in my classes and I distance myself from them.</p>
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Not really. Often professors don't want to bother with all the paperwork and stuff and just let the student off. They might see people, for example, sharing calculators, but they'd simply tell them to put the calculators away because (a) it's not worth the trouble to accuse them (b) often there's not enough evidence to claim the students were cheating. I have friends who are professors and have done this in the majority of cases.
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<p>Um..yes really. Well, I'd love to meet those professors and let them know that they should be adhering to the university policy on academic integrity. My professors here take these cases very seriously and have emphasized this before every exam and paper assignment, as well as in their syllabi because they don't want to deal with the paperwork. Also, they have reported students and the committee sided with the prof. For some reason, I find your story very hard to believe. If those "professors" actually told you that and are not tenured or are on the tenure track, then they should not be teaching academia. If they have TA's who read the papers and find something fishy, they will notify the professor. Are these professors assistant, associate, or full professors? </p>
<p>Also, I'm saying that if a facilitator does catch you with a calculator during a history exam, that would be a strong case. For math, that's a different story since it will be hard to prove.</p>
<p>Also, I just realized from your profile you are only 15 and you are friends with professors? Professors aren't your friends, they are mentors. When you graduate from college then they can become your friends. When you can buy them a drink at the bar on your tab, they are your friends. :) I've been on good terms with many professors, and yet I do not consider them my "friends".</p>
<p>your cheating methods are pathetic. If you really wanted to cheat, then you would memorize the answers instead of carrying around them with you.</p>
<p>In response to "everyone cheats"...</p>
<p>Even if you suppose that a certain threshold of cheating is somehow forgivable since "everyone does it," you can't logically conclude that a more serious form of cheating is similarly forgivable. If you're going to argue that the OP's actions were somehow forgivable, then you have to define your threshold to have a "serious" factor which is greater than or equal to that of stealing a test.</p>
<p>Philosophical arguments show me that I can't be 100% sure of anything, but at the very least I'm fairly confident that not everyone steals tests.</p>
<p>OWN UP TO IT and then beg for dear life. Clearly your teacher is sensitive to the fact that this has happened at a critical juncture in your college applying stage and will consider that although I am sure she wants to hang you. You must face some kind of consequence but tell her you will do anything but risk the loss of those valuable recs. What were you thinking? You have come this far, and are a self admitted natural brain getting straight a's forever, why now? It just doesn't jive I am not trying to make you feel worse than you already presumably do, but you gotta think about something like stealing a test! Thats pretty major. I think if your teacher understands you are truly remorseful and will do anything within your power, she will find a way to still keep you on the right track but also make sure you learn a valuable lesson, good luck to you!:)</p>