story time!

I don't know if this is STRICTLY cheating, but this is definitely a "dumbest way I got caught" story.

I went to a small religious private school, and we had a Bible class. Our teacher was kind enough to give us some of the best study guides I've ever had: if you did the study guide, and studied it, you would generally do well on the exams. He was pretty strict and serious, but I liked him regardless. Deadpan sense of humor. I had transferred in from a different high school, but had been made to feel incredibly welcome, and wanted to pay back my classmates.

So I would do these length and detailed study guides about a week before the exam. Part of why they were good study guides was that you had to have had been doing the reading and taking notes, etc, but I was a really good student so I always had all of the material. But I would spend multiple hours and a few evenings putting together a great study guide. We were never told we couldn't work on them together, or anything like that, but it was somewhat frowned upon as we usually got the essay questions, etc on these study guides. I was so dedicated, I would write up mock essay outlines for everyone. However, for one exam, one essay question was essentially a page or two straight from our textbook, and I wrote in the study guide that I wasn't re-writing what people should have been reading all along, and that if they were STILL too lazy to go read two pages, it wasn't my issue.

How I distributed this pricesless study guide to my classmates was via posting it as a Facebook note. But after several exams, this became my downfall. To this day, I STILL don't know who it was, but someone, instead of copying the text to a Word document, printed out the webpage. With my Facebook profile picture loud and proud in the top left corner. And then left it behind in that class, two periods before me.

luckily, the teacher was pretty cool and just kind of made fun of me about it in class, all while playing dumb, but I was confident I was going to die that day.