Did You Cheat in School?

[Admiral Yi]

If aiding the cheaters counts, then I did lots of that as well.  I always told other people that they're welcome to cheat off me as much as they wanted, just as long as they didn't make me do anything to actively aid them.  It got a little ridiculous on BC Calculus final AP exam, though, when it seemed like there was a gravitational field right where I was sitting, and way too many combo desk-chairs seemed to converge around me.  I even had to turn down an offer of $50 for help in cheating, because I felt that would be crossing the line.

Advanced Math (had a lot of calc and trig in it) was the class I helped three guys pass, the center piece of my cheating career.

Gave it a try once in French but I couldn't come up with a system that worked in short answer tests.

[katmai]

Pretty much yes. moving around for almost every year in the 80's meant had a lot of different schools. Moving to western PA from Alaska my mother wasn't impressed by the public school so only alternative was Immaculate Conception catholic elementary was only other choice.
Moving to San Francisco a year later meant I went back to Public school.
Another year, another move to central PA once again wasn't impressed with the public school so ended up going to alternative private school that had rotating electives beyond the basic classes of English, math, history, writing.
And finally after moving to Seattle and year at Hamilton Middle School I went to Homeschooling, which for me meant my mother had teachers/tutors from her job that taught me math and sciences (they were engineers at a testing laboratory) while pretty much read on my own with testing from my mother when it came to History and Lit.

[katmai]

i was saying you were calling your siblings (do you have any? lol) idiots who had to cheat off you.

15 year old in college? that was either cool or annoying.

My siblings didn't live anywhere near me.

and it was cool and annoying, tough to hit on the hot college girls when you don't even have a drivers license.

[Barrister]

I cheated once.  In law school. 

At the time it just seemed like such a bullshit assignment.  It was 1997.  I think we had to research some stuff on the new-fangled internet and then submit our findings on a disk.  This had very little to do with law, it was simple but fairly tedious to do.  It was the kind of thing you could do in 30 seconds with google, but google hadn't been invented yet.  It wasn't even a paper - I think we had to submit a bunch of hyperlinks.

Everyone agreed this was a bullshit assignment, so there was rampant copying of what other people had researched.

Now, not being incredibly stupid, I cut-and-pasted from about three people's research, threw in a little of my own, and called it a day.

A half dozen of my classmates were incredibly stupid however, just cut-and-paste the entire file, and got caught.  There were enough of them the school didn't want to look bad by expelling all of them.  I forget what their ultimate punishment was.

So, in hindsight it was a dumb thing to do given the possible consequences, but I didn't feel it harmed my academic integrity one bit.

[Fate]

Yeah. In college you could bring graphing calculators into most science-ish exams. I'd write programs for it that would have all of the notes, formulas, and even download programs that did the calculations for you if you put in the variables properly. Physics, biochemistry, chemistry... 

I really wonder what the professors were smoking. They never even thought to make the students reset the batteries. My high school was all over that shit.

[Zoupa]

I cheated a bunch of times, even in university.

I don't feel bad about it either.

[Razgovory]

One time I brought a pair of binoculars to school to read the periodic table posted on the wall for a test.  It was just a joke, and I gave them to the teacher before the test when she saw what I could do with it.  That's the closest I ever came cheating on something.

[Ed Anger]

I cheated a bunch of times, even in university.

I don't feel bad about it either.

tsk tsk.

[CountDeMoney]

One time I brought a pair of binoculars to school to read the periodic table posted on the wall for a test.  It was just a joke, and I gave them to the teacher before the test when she saw what I could do with it.  That's the closest I ever came cheating on something.

Surprised you could use them, what with the crash helmet and all.

[11B4V]

Define "cheat".

I like this answer.

[Grey Fox]

Yes. There's a person or 2 that should have my name on their diploma.

[Monoriu]

No.  I did reasonably well at school, so there was no need to cheat.  Cheaters face expulsion from school.  There was no way it would be worth it. 

[Valmy]

If you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin'

I didn't really try that hard in school so no.

[stjaba]

Yeah. In college you could bring graphing calculators into most science-ish exams. I'd write programs for it that would have all of the notes, formulas, and even download programs that did the calculations for you if you put in the variables properly. Physics, biochemistry, chemistry... 

This seems to be common among pre-med students I knew. 

[Razgovory]

One time I brought a pair of binoculars to school to read the periodic table posted on the wall for a test.  It was just a joke, and I gave them to the teacher before the test when she saw what I could do with it.  That's the closest I ever came cheating on something.

Surprised you could use them, what with the crash helmet and all.

No crash helmet.  Had an old Brodie helmet that I wore sometimes.  I was well protected from German 7.7 artillery bombardment.