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> I plagiarized a few times in high school to get out of deadlines for work I didn't care to do. One time pretty much all the kids in my Chemistry class copied
by logifail 4y ago
> I plagiarized a few times in high school to get out of deadlines for work I didn't care to do.
One time pretty much all the kids in my Chemistry class copied my homework, at that time I had the reputation for knowing what I was doing.
Unfortunately there was a key error in one of my solutions, and all the other kids copied my solution faithfully - including the error.
The teacher figured out pretty quickly what had happened and decided on an unusual reponse. He corrected my solution fully ... in my book. In everyone else's book the only thing he wrote was:
"See $logifail's book"
We didn't do that again!
- aspenmayer 4y agoI understand now that you meant your answer book for the exam under discussion, but for a moment I imagined that you were saying that you got away with it until much later, when your former professor was reviewing some professional published work of yours after the fact.
- logifail 4y ago:eek: Looking at that again I really didn't choose my words very carefully, sorry. No published books here! Two exceeedingly minor scientific papers, but fortunately my misdeeds in school Chemistry were long forgotten by then. OT but interestingly in German there's a clear distinction in such cases between the word "Buch" (= book, of the sort that you read from) and the word "Heft" (= exercise book, of the soft-bound variety that you write in).