Why not to Cheat

I know from experience that it can be easy to be tempted by the
availability of internet to go searching for answers. I can also from
experience tell you that it is not worth doing.

The University of Louisville claims in its Student Code of Conduct
that cheating/plagiarism of all kinds degrades the value of a degree
in which a student receives. This may sound dramatic at first and like
an overstatement on their part, but in truth this is the case. Having
gone through the process myself twice now, both times during COVID
when the concept of online classes made the temptation that much
greater, I can without a doubt agree with that statement. Both
instances caused me to lose the opportunity to truly take in what the
class offered to me. I allowed my knowing the answers to homework
assignments would be online to drastically change how I worked in the
course and how much effort and priority I placed into it. To say this
took away from what I learned in this class would be an
understatement. It caused me to form poor habits in meeting deadlines
for the class, it hindered my attendance as it began to feel
unnecessary, and the time I spent studying for exams slowly became
next to nothing. The smallest of things can, and will, become a
slippery slope into poor habits that can be so easily avoided by not
cheating on something you may think is insignificant in the big
picture of the class.