Lexi Alaga
5/2/14
Academic Misconduct

Throughout school you were taught to never cheat. As a kid growing up we learned that mean to keep your eyes on your own paper, don’t copy other peoples math homework, and to use your own words and create your own sentences. As a kid this was easy, we had no pressure to be the best we were able to struggle and have our parents teach us or fail and it would be okay because our grade point average did not matter. As we grow up we learn through this method of learning from our weakness, fails, and creativity that we all can create our own work and put our name on it. Cheating and plagiarism became scary in high school but became our worst nightmare in college if one choice to partake in it and got caught. I was always proud of my work, especially when you spend hours and hours working on something and when you are finally finished you look back and it was worth that amount of time you spent on it. Cheating is not worth it; you’re not only going against the rules of academic misconduct you are cheating yourself. You’re not allowing yourself to actually learn something you are taking the easy way out and misleading not only yourself but those around you. Cheating goes into a lot of aspect in life, academics, love, sports, etc. The most interesting thing is it always comes down to one tiny aspect of yourself, your scared of letting someone down, you want to win so bad, your lazy and don’t want to try, but it all comes down to the amount you put into that activity. If you want to be good in school you need to put a lot into it to get a lot out of it, school does not come cheap. The same goes for love and relationships. Now of course there is no perfect human being, we all make mistakes, this is the beauty of cheating comes into play. It is those who learn from this mistake and take into the account how much they could of lost and