Higher education students, be honest about your cheating...

[irishScott]

I'd rather get the F I deserve then cheat.

 

[Pwnbroker]

We need a poll to see who can tell the truth from a lie when it's in print.

 

[NeoPTLD]

Office of Student Conduct considers:

"unauthorized collaboration" , "studying from old exams w/o explicit permission from the instructor", "plagiarism in whole or part", "lookng at another person's exam" and myriads of other things as "academic dishonesty"

 

[hjo3]

In my attendance to higher education (CC, Univ, grad school etc) have you cheated?

Have I cheated in your attendance? No, I don't think I have.

 

[DaShen]

Collaboration and homework groups were actually recommended by some of my professors (in some of those homework groups, I didn't do that much work <but like I said that was allowed by the professors> ). Of course, by test time I was screwed. Other than that, nope, no cheating, and even that stuff wasn't cheating because the professor allowed it. You just had to put your names together on the homeworks.

A lot of the homework were proofs. Not things you could really just memorize, so there was a point to some of the professors doing that.

There was one time, one of my friends was really behind on schoolwork, so I lent him my cryptography homework to double check his work after he attempted it. I told him to use it only as a reference. He ended up copying it word for word, and that dropped me a letter grade. :| I was really pissed because I had made him promise to not copy it but use it as a reference. Oh well. After that, I didn't lend out my homework again. If the person needed help, I would spend time explaining it, and going over it with them. That becomes time consuming though. 🙁

 

[eLiu]

I've never cheated in university (currently a junior). It's too dangerous to do so on exams... not that I think most of my classmates are worth copying from anyway.

And cheating on HW is aimless; I do most of my learning from homework problems--I've been "lucky" enough to have profs who usually give interesting (hard) psets.

 

[Pwnbroker]

I've been lucky enough to be able to take most tests and pass with highest marks without ever opening a book. I've also been well-blessed with the ability to sit down and write about something without knowing anything about the subject. I think I'm psychic.

 

[DainBramaged]

I've never cheated because if I got caught, it would be extremely bad.

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I've never cheated because if I got caught, it would be extremely bad.

Thats why you don't get caught...

Well, I just wrote a detailed explanation of how I've cheated in high school and college, but I figured maybe being specific wasn't a good thing, so I will simply say yes, I cheat all the time. I cheated in high school, I cheated on the SAT and AP tests, I cheated in college, I have never been caught, I find it highly ulikely I ever will.

Also, I am not the only one, I am not even close, so many people here saying they haven't, I wonder, maybe ya'll are telling the truth, or maybe the other cheaters simply aren't posting in this thread, but cheating happen in high school, cheating happens in college, cheating happens in real life, and it happens ALOT, such is life.

EDIT: for point of fact the only time I have been caught "cheating" was when I forged my mothers signature once in first grade. I spelled it wrong, thats how the teacher knew, needless to say I never did that again (the spelling it wrong part, not the forging part).

 

[Excelsior]

Have I or will I ever cheat at college? Hell no. Are you kidding me?

Now in HS, I did, but mostly because I was lazy. Never got caught either, cause HS teachers seem to care less.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: cRazYdood
I haven't cheated on anything at the University. There is way too much to lose if you get caught to even consider it.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
EDIT: for point of fact the only time I have been caught "cheating" was when I forged my mothers signature once in first grade. I spelled it wrong, thats how the teacher knew, needless to say I never did that again (the spelling it wrong part, not the forging part).

You were forging signatures at 6 years old? :Q
Bad boy.

 

[Orsorum]

I take pride in my work and I take pride in what I am capable of. However, the most valuable thing I learned in college was how to fail, personally and academically. Those experiences taught me that there are worse things than a bad grade or a forfeited job, and I'm able to hold my head high now as a professional because I know that my word and my honesty are worth something.

Having failed in the working world now, too, even then I think my honesty and my word are more important to me than maintaining some facade of perfection. I can explain a mistake to a client and retain their trust and their business; I cannot explain to a client that I lied to them and expect to retain their business.

Once you show that you're willing to compromise your ethics and your integrity for short-term gain, you demonstrate that you cannot be trusted. Some people may not care and you may get away with it for a while, but in the end, I think almost all cheats and liars get theirs.

 

[wasssup]

I never really cheated, I didn't see the point. Unfortunately my college is notorious for having students in the CS program cheat. That's probably why most of them never end up programming after they graduate...

 

[radioouman]

Yes I have. I didn't do it regularly though.
I actually cheated in one class during my graduate work. I was really stumped. I studied for hours trying to get a single problem to match the answer in the back of the book. My prof posted the work, lecture notes, and answers (after the assignments were turned in) on a website. As a last resort in order to pass the assignments or at least get a clue on how to do them, I started looking around the website for the answers for my homework that I hadn't turned in. After a few careful key strokes, I was able to find the answers to the problems for future homeworks. I used those as a guide to get through my homeworks. I ended up doing OK in the glass, but I'm sure that I would have learned more if I were able to figure them out on my own.

 

[dug777]

I cried...once 😱

 

[KoolAidKid]

I don't cheat.

When I was in grad school I had to do a lot of grading as a TA. The idiocy of some of the people looking to cheat never ceased to amaze me. In a class of 100, I had 5 students turn in a paper that was copied and pasted from the first Google search result on the paper topic. The funny thing was that the web site that they were copying from had itself plagiarized content from an entry in Microsoft Encarta. Dumba$$es.

 

[Triumph]

I cheated once, on a C++ program that was absolutely impossible to accomplish, the professor was giving no leeway, and it was either cheat or get a zero. That's the only time that I can remember ever cheating in college.