<p>Demeter: Exactly! Just the other day, I heard a guy in my HONORS humanities course talk about how he was considering paying for a pre-written paper as a substitute for writing the course’s term paper. Is it truly worth the risk? Absolutely not.</p>
<p>OP, you obviously don’t value your education if you have to cheat your way through college (and “shamelessly” at that). But, if you’d like to jeopardize your college career, graduate school opportunities, and possibly career opportunities, then go ahead and cheat. And no, I’m not throwing a slippery slope argument in your face. It is such a mark of immaturity to not turn your own, original work in, whether it’s for a general education class or for a major requirement. You might consider yourself immune to any trouble that may come with cheating, but trust me, you’ll be in for a rude awakening.</p>
<p>You can cheat in general education classes that are usually really big and almost impossible to detect cheating. There are usually 400 people taking a test simultaneously and only a couple of TAs to monitor them.</p>
<p>I hate gen-ed classes and they have no value to me so I don’t care about stuff I learn in them. I usually don’t even go to class and end up with an A or B anyway by cramming the night before the test.</p>
<p>I don’t usually cheat though… I learn all the material first (by cramming) and if I feel the need to cheat even after that, then I will “consider” it at the time (I don’t always do it btw), and I don’t give a ■■ about morality. ■■ those “moral, higher than thou” people (they WILL fall behind if they don’t learn to hustle in life).</p>
<p>That is ridiculous! Why would you cheat your way into a college you know you can’t handle??</p>
<p>If you don’t get caught, it can be worth it (especially in gen ed classes that don’t relate to your major - material you’ll never use in your life).</p>
<p>However, I’m personally terrified of the consequences of getting caught, so I don’t cheat.</p>
<p>But then again, we could also get into an argument about what cheating actually entails though, and I’m sure someone would include something in the definition that I’ve done (but I don’t personally consider as ‘cheating’).</p>
<p>My daddy always told me that “school is not the Boy Scouts, smart people figure out how to get good grades whether they can learn the material or not.”</p>
<p>I have heard this statement 20 or 30 times in my life from the most successful man I have ever met… my father, who I am pretty sure cheated his way through college.</p>
<p>I personally have cheated a handful of times because my GPA is super important to me, im not talking about just writing down old answers, i mean getting old copies of tests and writing A, C, D, A down and going and filling out the test form.</p>
<p>It works, am i proud of my GPA? Yes. When I graduate there will not be a separate diploma for me the “cheater” as compared to the guy next to me who did not. I bet my GPA is better though and that does wonders for grad school.</p>