I talked to my good friend and roomate the Sofa King and he set me straight on the cheating thing. I was tempted to seek an easy way out of a difficult situation and chose to briefly follow a dishonorable path. I haven’t cheated and will not cheat on my paper.
Thanks to all disgusted enough for shaming me into seeking further advice and ultimately arriving at an honest solution.
Jongri
Cheers for not cheating. Jeers for starting this in GQ instead of MPSIMS.
I’m new to the board, so please excuse my faulty posting.
Off to MPSIMS.
DrMatrix - General Questions Moderator
I for one (who has read all of your posts to date) am honestly happy to read this. I think it speaks highly of you not only to make this decision, but also to take enough pride in the decision to let others know that you were wrong, and that their comments made you see the right path.
Honestly, based on your past postings, especially in the felony thread, I wasn’t so certain that remorse was one of your strong suits.
Damn. You didn’t even say what your paper had to be on! This has to be the worst attempt at cheating I’ve ever seen, and I used to teach 3rd graders. I’d suggest a few more liberal arts classes.
Hey, I just spotted this one. If you don’t mind there, jongri, I think your explanation to me was one of the most honest and easiest to understand that I’ve ever heard. Mind if I tell it?
jongri simply told me that he has a habit of “angling,” exploring for that path of least resistance–and maybe even taking it sometimes. All I did was point out that he’s the one paying for his education, so why should he cheat himself? I would point out that being really bad at cheating may indicate that he hasn’t had a lot of experience in actually doing it.
Anyway, jongri is the one who made the decision to do it the right way, and since he’s been locked up in his room for two days now I surmise that he’s sticking to it. It doesn’t surprise me in the least. Despite what he said here earlier, I know him to be an honest, honorable, straight-shooting guy. And a great housemate and friend as well.
The reasons why jongri has that interesting streak of opportunism is his story. I hope he’ll tell it to you in more detail one day, because it’s an impressive tale.
I remember in my college statistics class I was tempted to cheat. I drank a can of pepsi every day. For one test I taped the equations to the bottom of the can. The prof left the class for a while. I was home free.
I couldn’t do it. I got a ‘d’ in statistics (D for diploma) but kept my honor.