<p>hello everyone.
btw, i know there is another thread by this title, but i have nothing to do with that.
Regardless, let me give you the background on this event.
Not to long ago, I had to take a leave of absence due to sickness from my university, and i struggled for the half semester during the summer when i tried to come back and diddn't do so great again.
I wasn't sure at first if I should take a full load of credits for this next semester.
So for a while, I did not attend one class I thought I might drop (for about a week), and apparently I missed my first quiz in it.
But oddly the only way I can get any health insurance at this point is if I can prove I am a full time student.
So I ended up sticking with all my classes.
The problem came when, not too long after I started going to the class I previously thought I would be dropping, we had a quiz.
I saw a girl sitting next to me take out her notes and look over them during the quiz and I assumed we would be allowed to use notes, not knowing any better as I had missed the first quiz and was unsure of the standard practice for this course.
Now, I am totally aware I should have asked. It was a very bad mistake.
afterwards the TA who was proctoring the test asked to have a word with me and told me he saw me cheating. At first, I vehemently denied it simply because I was in shock and couldn't believe what I was hearing, but I began to realize what was going on.
I am terribly sorry for what has happened, it was all a horrible mistake.
I have never cheated before.
In addition, I have always wanted to go to graduate school. My major is electrical engineering. I have already not done so well in the past, as I had mentioned, I was relatively sick.
hehe, i guess that explains why I was getting weird looks at me during the test from my desk's neighbor.
In addition, I had happened to sit right in the back corner of the room, which seemed all the more incriminating, I am sure.
seriously, what happens next? what will they probably do and how should i react?
On that note, I'd like to add I have never ever even dreamed of cheating on a test / quiz in college. This is my first infraction.
HELP!</p>
<p>The only other choice seems to be ratting out that girl, which isn't a choice at all. Just take it like a man. It won't kill you.</p>
<p>It'll be okay. Just tell them again and again that there was a huge misunderstanding, you didn't know it wasn't allowed, you missed class cause u were sick, all the same stuff u told us.</p>
<p>At the state university where I teach, the instructor fills out a scholastic dishonesty form detailing the offense and including any evidence and sends it to the judicial services office of the dean of students along with a recommended penalty. In a case like yours the penalty would almost always be a zero on the quiz. If the student agrees that he committed the offense and accepts the penalty, he signs the form, and it goes into his file for roughly five years, after which it is removed and thrown away. If the student fights the charges, a hearing is set up where he can plead his case, with the dean of judicial services as "prosecutor," the student acting as his own defense lawyer, and an instructor from the law school as judge. (Students are allowed to hire an attorney, and one of mine did this last year, but the attorney only serves in an advisory capacity and does not argue the case during the hearing.) If the student loses the hearing, the penalty is assessed and the form becomes a permanent part of the student's file and is never removed. The scholastic dishonesty form remains confidential and is not sent out with requests for transcripts or anything like that, but if a grad school, med school, employer, etc., specifically asks about any dishonesty incidents, they will be informed.</p>
<p>Based on my experience having sent about a half dozen of these forms to the dean's office (and never lost), your best bet is to plead guilty by reason of stupidity. It's a quiz for crying out loud -- how often are you allowed to go into your notes during an in-class quiz? You saw one girl do it out of how many students, and thought it was okay, even though nobody else in the room had a notebook out? That defense will never fly. Ratting out the girl is of no use to you either, since you have no proof to back up your claim.</p>
<p>You are responsible for knowing what happens in class when you don't attend, so it really doesn't matter that you saw one person in the whole class looking at notes and assumed that you could do it too. You cheated, you lied about it, and now you're trying to shift the blame to someone else. That doesn't make you look good.</p>
<p>If you want to know what is going to happen, I suggest that you check out (a) the student handbook, (b) the syllabus for that course, and (c) the lecture notes you get from a friend for the days you missed.</p>
<p>But I suggest you start accepting responsibility, because this really is <em>entirely</em> your responsibility. Suggesting that you shouldn't be held accountable because you cut class just makes you look worse.</p>
<p>A friend was accused of cheating and thrown out of school(Ivy League School) He was in a 5 year double major program. What can he do to get at least one degree. He has finished all the classes needed for one degree and would have finished the classes for second degree in the next couple of weeks. He was offered a job and then they backed out of the offer because of this. All his work, effort, time, accomplishment(won many awards) tuition all gone out the window What can be done Please help. He has to be off the campus tomorrow.</p>
<p>I don’t see why ratting her out isn’t a choice, if he can show that she cheated (I don’t see how) she deserves equal punishment.</p>
<p>take as many as you can down with you!
nah im joking (sorta)</p>
<p>but yea i have seen a couple times people peek into their notes during exams, I think while he/she is doing it and think ‘wow what an idiot’ and think nothing of it…but once the exam is done and they got away with it, it really sucks…knowing that they had an unfair advantage.</p>
<p>(these people almost always fail anyhow though)</p>