Blog 8

In high school, every student at least cheated once throughout their four years of school. Students found it easy to cheat off of the internet, their classmates or textbooks during tests or while they did homework. Many students procrastinated in high school, and thought why study or take many hours doing homework when I can easily copy my friend's work? I mean i know i had that thought through my head during high school. I knew of people who would wait till the last day to do their research report and they would just copy and paste all the information from the internet, and they would just change a couple of words. Then there were some students who wouldn’t study for their tests and just copy off of their classmates. Basically what I’m trying to say is cheating throughout high school was not a big issue, I mean there was no big punishment if you got caught cheating so every student thought why not do it, and I thought nothing wrong of it as long as i got a good grade. I would continually copy my friend's work throughout high school especially since I was in AP and honors classes, and it wasn’t that I wasn’t familiar with the subject or I didn’t know anything but it was the fact that I was too lazy to make time to do the assignment. I would always wait till three days before the tests to study which was not good at all. So when I went to college, I realized procrastination and cheating will take you nowhere in life. You actually have to make time to study and fully know the subject in order to get a good grade, it isn’t easy to cheat in college and if you get caught cheating there are some serious punishments. I learned that I should of taken high school a little more seriously, even though I received all A's I should of worked on my studying habits. Being a college student, and college athlete and part time employee is hard and doesn’t allow me much time for my studying or work time, but no matter what I always begin studying for next weeks before the test date. If I wasn’t to succeed in my career I have to know everything about it and study and do all of my assignments. I don’t think people should cheat nor procrastinate because in the long run it will only hurt you and your future!