Cheating

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Thread title as per Unilateral Declaration #349718/2 - B

I could never cheat in school. It wasn't so much that I was nervous about getitng caught, I just couldn't do it. It seemed to me that the effort it took to write answers on your shirt sleeve might just as well be spent in actually reading the damn chapter.

Anyway, this led to me to thinking about high school, and how much better I'd do today. I'm better now at organizing thoughts, taking notes, creating reports, etc. Of course, I'd have to sit through Calculus and The Periodic Table again. But I know all the capitals now, and how long hte Hudnred Years War was, and what a preposition is. High School would be a blast now.

How well do you think you'd do at high school today?

 

[CreamyLady]

I'd probably try and focus, and maybe do some work, but I'd still be a hermit.

On second thought . . .

Nah. I'd be the same. I was bored then, I'd be bored now, and I'd spend all my time in dreamland. Again.

 

[Laurel]

I'd hate it, but I'd probably do okay. I soak up factoids like names & dates & wars like a crazy sponge, and much of my high school experience was memorizing lots of names & dates & wars. High school bored the shit out of me, and my parents wouldn't let me skip a grade, so I coasted. I'd probably coast again today.

I never could cheat either. I am the world's worst liar. My face gets this "WARNING I AM A LYING DOG" expression on it (akin to the "Deer in the Headlights" look, only with more blushing and higher eyebrows) whenever I try to read the answers off the inside of my arm. But if I write the stuff down, then read it, I usually can retain it long enough to dump it onto the test paper. The stuff I enjoy, I don't even have to write down.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Never... never...

Cheated on anything - exams, tests - anything like that. Can't. Has anyone ever "found" money and not searched for it's owner? Is that cheating?

 

[Bonnie Wee Lassie]

Ok I am getting confused with all these cheat threads. LOL

Anyways I did write cheat notes in high school but by the time I got to the test I learned it all by writing the notes. Since I hated studying this was a great way for me to trick myself into doing it. But I always had them tucked in my bra just in case.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Nice vision -

Looking over your shoulder to cheat and getting an eyefull of bra.

 

[Bonnie Wee Lassie]

You would get more then just an eyefull of bra! LOL

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Ouch!!!

I felt that #2 yellow - stick right in my eye.

 

[Bonnie Wee Lassie]

OMG that's where I put that! LOL

 

[Endlessly]

I can't cheat either, Dixon. It's the silliest thing I've ever heard of. Then again, I can't jaywalk either.

How would I do in high school? Miserably. I hated it.

 

[Melody_lane]

I did great in HS. I graduated like 4th in my class. I didn't have to study for anything. But, I did cheat...or rather, I let others cheat off of me. Never once got caught, either.
Even though it hasn't been all that long since HS...I'd probably do about the same. I hate not doing my best, and I always like to be the one with the top score.

I wonder if I'll feel the same in 20 years!?!

 

[sallygirl]

I cheated once. I think it was in Grade 6. I studied those French verbs and thought I knew them, but when I was writing the test I couldn't remember which way the accent went on one of the verbs. That upset me, because I always did well. The teacher had told us to put our notebooks under our desks, so I scrunched down in my seat and casually tried to open my notebook with my feet and get a glimpse. Pretty stupid, eh? The teacher caught me (of course) and said loudly "Sallygirl, close that notebook and give me your test. You're done." I was mortified and got zero on the test

I'm only five years out of high school, and my habits and methods haven't improved in college. I cram late at night and forget what I studied as soon as the test is over. I procrastinate and hand things in late. I still do well, but imagine how much better I could do with proper habits!

 

[Rosebud]

I too learned from writing things on cheat sheets and never using them, something about cramming all that stuff on such a little piece of paper made me remember it, as for if I went to school now? I would do better in History. I hated history until my hubby started telling me about all the things i didn't bother to learn, and i would love computer class.

 

[Alyrahh]

Highschool was a nightmare for me... I did very well in the grade department. But, that is such a trying time of your life anyway. I mean, when else in your life do you become painfully embarassed if your hair doesn't look exactly the same on both sides? haha... that's so silly now, please tell me I'm not the only one who worried over such trivial things.

I'll have to agree with Dixon about doing much better now though. I too, have much better organizational skills. And after many years of college I've developed great study skills.

 

[RonG]

I'd do a heckuva lot worse. I had this photographic memory thing happening back then. Now my brain has replaced all those facts from History and Literature with things like knowing that Paddington Bear is from Peru and which skills Jigglypuff and Pikachu possess. Kids make you stupid!

 

[Fallen Angel]

A dream come true, if only I knew then what I know now. I would do great because I wouldn't be quite as shy about asking the girls out and whoa hoo I would really know what to do with them and not have to just guess.

I seem to do okay with all the math engish and sience that my two daughters in high school bring home for help. I love math and sience.

Cheat, nope too lazy. I could pass almost any test but never turned in homework. I would read my school books in the first six weeks and coast the rest of the time. I finally dropped out in my senior year because I wouldn't do my english research paper or my history notebook. Took my GED and went on to college, shit I should have stuck with college but quit to go make money. It just kills me to think of the chance I threw away. Computers were my major and we were still doing a bunch with keypunch cards.

Oh well I really have no regrets I have done more in half a lifetime than many do their whole life. There are still a few things I want to try though. Speaking of, Rosebud where are you hiding I want to play.

 

[Cheyenne]

I did cheat...or rather, I let others cheat off of me. Never once got caught, either.
I hate not doing my best, and I always like to be the one with the top score.

Ditto. I thought helping some of the cooler kids pass tests they didn't study for would help them somehow. I was wrong. I wouldn't do it again if I were back in high school now. I'd still do fine, and they would be on their own.

 

[Endlessly]

Waaaitaminute, I forgot helping someone else was cheating, in which case, I once helped a kid who did nothing but insult me pass English. I read a 500-page book for him and wrote the speech he had to give on it. I wasa fucked up kiddo.

 

[Danger Box]

Aren't we forgetting something?

Thread title as per Unilateral Declaration #349718/2 - B


How well do you think you'd do at high school today?

I think we're forgetting the big picture. Screw the grades, I'd still be trying to get laid!

 

[Xander]

Probaly do a hell of a lot better today than I actually did.
A constantly doped up teen, was what I was. And I always thought it was more fun to go barbusting then learning german verbs. Which of course was exactly what I did.
I graduated okay though. Don't ask me how, because I sure as hell don't know.

 

[Flagg]

High School was more about socialising than actually getting an education for me (though I suppose an education crept in their anyway goddammit!). My philopsophy in life has always been to do the minimum possible in order to succeed. A bit different to a complete loser whose philosophy would be to to the minimum possible full stop.

I cheated a few times and never got caught. I'm not ashamed of it though - I mean come one it wasn't fair, those other kids had revised a lot more than me!

I'd love to go back to High School. Parties, succession of girlfriends, casual sex - Jesus how I miss casual sex! No responsabilities, no bills, no fucking job!

OK, I'm depressed now.

 

[Whispersecret]

I never cheated. Too scared. I was a good girl, a rule-follower.

I would definitely not like to go back to high school. A couple of months ago I went to my 20th HS reunion, and was reminded how apart I felt much of the time. The kids I hung out with, the marching band and the drill team, were considered "geeky." We weren't the football team or the cheerleaders. If I went back to high school, I'd have to hang out with TEENAGERS. Ugh.