Yeah, I do. They always sit a couple rows in front of me. I did just e-mail the prof. I'll see if I get any kind of response from him.

ION, I have the best job. They just told me I should be working on homework on the clock, since I've probably got much to get caught up on.

I really need to haul myself across town and get Harvey some more $1.50 a can Harvey-food. Maybe I'll get him a sweater too. Or should I find a pattern and crochet one for him? The whyfor of this is his essential Siameseness. You see the Siamese coat is temperature-sensitive, and darkens as it is exposed to cold. This is why their extremities are dark and their middles are lighter, and why they get darker as they age. Siamese cats exposed to winter in places like Russia won't have the familiar point pattern, but will have solid color coats. Hence the wanting of a cat sweater for Harvey.

Oh, shoot. I just remembered I have a meeting right now. Wonder if she'll remember to show up this time.

I guess this is the unpopular opinion, but I would never turn somebody in for cheating in school. Not as a fellow student anyway.

Get 'em, vw!

And have good meeting, Emily.

Why not Hec?

As an online student, we are completely on the honor system. If I'm aware of another student cheating, I have no problem letting the instructor know.

I would never turn somebody in for cheating in school.

What if you were graded on a curve? I know it's tough -- I have actually watched students cheat on assignments I did poorly on and not done anything. But I'm starting to think more as a teacher these days, and cheating like that... it keeps the professor from really doing his job, for one thing, if he gets the wrong picture about how students are really doing in his class; it cheats the students who are really trying to do the work, for another; and it keeps the students who are copying from really learning the material. Mind you, so does the penalty, quite often, but there are good reasons for penalizing it. It's not really a victimless crime.

(ETA: which I think is what many of the students doing it, and the students not turning them in, believe, that it doesn't hurt anyone so whose business is it?)

I'm with Hec. I actually surprise myself by feeling that way, because I'm usually all with the Justice and the What's Right, but honestly, I don't care what my classmates do. If they get an A because they cheated, and I get an A because I worked my ass off, well, I still got an A and I learned what I need to learn to be a good nurse. The cheaters' A doesn't diminish that at all.

Moreover, the cheaters don't learn what they need to know to be a good nurse, and boy howdy is that going to be a problem when they go to take the licensing exam. Four years of nursing school down the toilet.

ETA that Emily makes a good point about grading on a curve, which I hadn't even thought of--only one of my professors to date has done it.

Why not Hec?

I think it's a really bad impulse to set myself up as the ethics police over my peers. I think it also betrays an alignment with the power structure/hierarchy over loyalty to your peers, which also feels wrong/petty/bad to me.

There's a reason why snitch, tattletale, informer, rat, narc are all such unpleasant words.

This is a class that is graded on a curve.

And really, I doubt that going to the prof is going to do anything, since I don't know my "peers" who did this.

It's just frustrating that I spent hours and got nowhere, and these guys did nothing. And actually, I can't believe that girl would just let them copy her work. I know how long and hard I worked on that lab report to get nowhere. I can't imagine the amount of time it took to actually complete it.