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No, because I consider the lesson learned far more valuable than what I lost. In college, I never had the urge to cheat on anything and if I didn't do the work
by blackflame7000 8y ago
No, because I consider the lesson learned far more valuable than what I lost. In college, I never had the urge to cheat on anything and if I didn't do the work I simply took the F rather than copy. My pre-expulsion self would have done whatever it took to get the A. Post-expulsion I realized that what I know and what people say or think I know will never be the same. A grade is simply what one person thinks that you know. It is not the arbiter of one's knowledge, you are.
- braythwayt 8y agoI used to break into the locked cabinet that held my high school’s 5MB removable hard drives (Look upon my works, and weep), but I never touched the one with our grades, I was having too much fun with the one that had a single-user BASIC implementation. It bumped available RAM to a whopping 16K, so I could develop my Super-StarTrek and Eight Queens programs. I certainly was in danger of being suspended or expelled just from the break-in, but in retrospect, my CS teacher was looking the other way. Mind you, it may have played a factor in another way. There was a Computer Science medal, it went to another student with lower grades. I was upset at the time, but in hindsight my devil-may-care attitude towards other people’s needs is a perfectly reasonable thing to take into consideration. He was probably more helpful to other students at the time, I was getting all my social credit from letting people play the game I wrote. Any ways... Sorry you were expelled, but glad we have both learned lessons that helped us become decent human beings.