A not-so-hypothetical question:

[aruan]

Say a friend asked you to write a relatively easy paper for him, with plenty of advance, on a book you're already more than halfway through anyway, for a class of over 200 people for which the chances of the professor being the one to read all the four-page papers himself being, just an a generous ballpark figure, slim to none.

The only caveat being that you wrote said professor a brief paper last semester (for a different class of about as many people).

Oh, and you stand to make a pretty sweet profit.

Thoughts?

Comments

[embitca.livejournal.com]

Not for any amount of money in the world. Cheating at University is fucked. Really fucked.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

See, and the thing is, my guilt complex is just way too overdeveloped, so it's not really like I posted that as a for-real scenario after walking away from it for a couple of hours. If nothing else, I want to be able to look this professor in the eyes again should the need arise later in my academic career, but mostly, I'd be way too paranoid to do it in the first place.

Plus, you know, with the wrong and academic honesty and my whole life spent with teachers commending my "distinct" writing style.

So, for a thousand reasons and not one besides the incentives offered against them, I'm declining the offer.

[embitca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the right choice. And ethics aside, there are way too many consequences to getting caught cheating in college and they would pursue you and your friend for the rest of your lives.