Within my generation the problem of academic dishonesty is growing more and more. I don’t know if it is because we have gotten lazy as students or we just have the means to cheat more then previous generations have. To me, this is a big problem because if people choose to cheat then they are not really learning anything. Getting too much help, copying another persons homework, or making a cheat sheet for a test do not help us grow intellectually. Because of these things people are learning to not think or do their own work for themselves.
People need to realize that it is not ok for them to not study and coast along on the coattail of another. The students who choose to take part in academic dishonest such as cheating and plagiarism really need to think about the consequences. At the moment, cheating might be the easy way out to save their GPA, but in the long run it could be one of the worst decisions they ever make. For example, no one wants a doctor to operate on them who cheated their way through college and medical school. If my life were in the hands of another I would want them to have been paying attention in class and studying whenever they are going to perform a surgery or even diagnose me with something. Also, because they cheated they might not know all the information they need to become a successful practicing MD. In an emergency situation that doctor might not know the best action to save a life because he or she didn’t take the time to learn what he or she needed too.
I realize someone dying because a doctor cheated in medical school is an extreme situation, but if academic dishonest continues to occur this example could become a reality if it hasn’t already. At times cheating seems to be the best solution we as students might have but in the overall scheme of things it could really hurt someone. Now is the time to put an end to the problem and start finding a solution.
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