User blog comment:Raidra/The Case for Vetting Graduation Speakers/@comment-17385488-20160522085338/@comment-4849011-20160523003748

I vaguely get the maximum overdrive reference (I want to say it's a 1980s action movie), so do I get vague kudos? If not, then I understand.

Thanks for the congratulations, and congrats to you for completing your first year! It's good to hear you've moved past such things and are writing good papers honestly. Keep up the good work, even if you do procrastinate! Yeah, we've all made mistakes. However, continuing to make rookie mistakes on purpose will just make things worse. These people who constantly plagiarize/have others do their work for them are hurting themselves. Likewise, this girl's parents (and the school) didn't do her any favors. She'll be in trouble when the professor catches her plagiarizing and her parents won't be able to help her.

Hey, did you hear the urban legend about the student who found an old term paper in the school records (or wherever it was), copied it, retyped it, and submitted it as his own? One ending has the professor giving him a failing grade and telling him, "I know for a fact that you didn't write this." The student protests, but the professor is insistent. The cheat finally demands, "How do you know?!" and the professor replies, "Because this is one of MY college term papers!"