Today, I got cited for "internet plagiarism" and called to the dean's office. I'd been sitting a closed-book written exam, and my teacher had been breathing down my neck the whole time. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my teacher called a friend and me out of class and told us we had been reported for plagiarism because our answers to a problem were nearly identical, and he said that I shouldn't have shared my work. This for an assignment where significant marks were awarded for collaborating with peers. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
Today, I got yelled at for 10 minutes by my head of department for failing one of my students for plagiarism, because, "we can't be sure." It was my work he plagiarised, but because it's not in our system, it doesn't count. FML
Today, at school, I got in trouble for plagiarizing on a paper. The subject of said paper was where I see myself in ten years. FML
Today, my AP teacher once again accused me of plagiarism. Apparently the words "demise," "ultimately," and "rural," are too sophisticated for an 11th grade AP student to use and MUST have been copied from the Internet. FML
Today, I got my results on a recent, important midterm. During the exam, I'd noticed my instructor had accidentally left an answers page in the test packet, so being honest, I didn't look at them. It turns out she did it on purpose to help us pass. I failed. FML
Today, I took a final for my law class. As I was taking the test, I noticed the girl on my left copying off me. I wrote all the wrong answers on my sheet while writing the correct answers on my desk hoping she would copy the wrong answers down. I forgot to write the correct answers on my test. FML
Today, I got a paper back that was given a zero for suspected plagiarism. Everything I wrote was my own thought and analysis. My instructor basically thinks my paper is smarter than I am. He won't listen, even when I explain my thought processes throughout the piece. FML
Today, I tried to turn in a final exam online. When I went to check if it had been submitted, Blackboard told me it did. My grade told a different story. FML
Today, I got the best grade in class on my economics midterm. Rather than tell me I did a good job, my professor criticized me in front of everyone about how I was working "too hard". FML
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Top comments
Crazynopantsman 11
Did you try to hit undo when you were called to the office?
shudson186 17
School system for you. They take plagiarism seriously.
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Comments (79)
allison12197 23
I highly doubt it's possible to plagiarize a written exam with nothing to plagiarize
Plexia 9
Sure you can! Plagiarism is stealing someone's work without citation, not copying it work for word. Think of it like playing Twinkle Twinkle in a composition exam.
Saikon1357 25
***** sake. A gold star sticker for whoever can spell 'broken educational system'.
JustASmallTownBo_fml 7
If I did, though, I'd be committing internet plagiarism because the answer is right there. And I don't wanna get sent to the dean's office.
jimmy_poison 19
I love how everyone instantly goes with "**** the teacher" and "our education system is ruined" etc, but also forget that for work to be deemed to be guilty of plagiarism requires PROOF. No Academic Dean will uphold a decision based on "I don't like this student, so I'm going to screw them over"
Shade1982 21
I like your optimistic view of the world, however you are basing that on the fact this is a fair world. It isn't and there are plenty teachers, deans and school administrators out there who will happily cover for a colleague without ever having seen any sort of proof whatsoever...
jimmy_poison 19
Not to be rude, but I'm actually basing my perspective on having been involved as a professor in a number of academic institutions over the last 8 years. I've had to take plagiarism and academic misconduct through the system and it is an incredibly time consuming and rigorous process to prove a student has plagiarized information. Students may take such matters to court, so there is no room for us to just "look out for our own".
raeepressley 12
The American school system is one of the worst in the world (assuming you're American). I feel very badly for people who have to deal with that high of a level of under qualified educators, who respond to intelligence by immediately assuming plagiarism...
doemetoch 28
Why would you assume OP is American?
mete_orito 34
OP seems to be from Malaysia.
samsam23t 8
it may seem like the worst because we educate the entire population and on those education ranking reports we don't just put ap student s like some countries do
nemcali 34
Did you pass the test?
mythicaltimes 15
It's possible (although unlikely) to plagiarize while in a closed room if you memorized the information.
stiffster 5
should of gone smoothly with the dean then
Nish007 15
google glass?
JarOfPeachz 9
must of been those google glasses you were wearing that tipped the teacher off. :P
Grenith 21
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