LEARN FROM YOUR LESSONS AND NEVER DO IT EVER AGAIN

I really studied hard enough for this quiz. Economics quiz.

During the quiz time, I felt like I could do the quiz and I was confident enough to be getting a high grade. But then, a close friend of mine was sitting right in front of me and we had to swap papers with a partner and check/grade their work. Before I swapped my paper with his, I was going to swap with the person beside me instead. I made the wrong decision. That close friend of mine wanted me to swap with him. So I did.

“Hey, can you please help me give a high grade?” He pleaded.

I wanted to help so I did. But then..

“I can also give you a 100. Do you want it?”

Then I thought, I had been getting pretty low grades since the beginning of the year. So I thought I needed the high grade to boost up my overall grade.

“Sure.”

During the checking, we erased each others’ wrong answers and wrote the correct one and gave a tick.

“NO. Don’t give me a 100 give me a 90 or less than that so that it won’t be suspicious.” I commanded.

“Ok.”

The results were written and the papers were to be submitted.

I turned in the paper. Then the teacher was shocked that me and him was the only two getting the highest grades. Suspicion hit the teacher’s minds and my friends’ minds.

I didn’t feel good walking out that classroom that day. I felt like I was a criminal, feeling guilty all day. Once I didn’t think about it, the teacher called for me and called for that close friend of mine and tested the both of us. Questions from the quiz. I answered those and my friend did too. Unfortunately, the teacher could see that we weren’t honest from there. He asked one question which had the calculation part and on the paper, I had written the workings and the answer down but selected a different answer, which was supposed to be incorrect. Same to his paper.

So we had to do a retest.

After the retest, I just can’t get rid of that guilty feeling.

From this, I learned that even our closest friend could put us in serious danger and trouble. If he cared about me and our friendship and knew that it was a wrong thing to do and knew that it would lead to this, he wouldn’t want me to be part of it. So I learned that you just can’t trust ANYONE FULLY. NEVER.

And DO NOT EVER THINK THAT CHEATING IS OKAY.

DO NOT CHEAT. DO NOT DO WHAT IS INAPPROPRIATE.

Thank you.

Written: March 5, 2015

Published on: lovelifeasyoudo.wordpress.com