Back in summer of 2020, I was taking an online course because of Covid. It was early enough after the switch to everything being virtual that no professors had adopted real anti-cheating measures during exams yet.
Anyways, there was a group chat for a course I was in and you could take the final exam for that course at any time for a 24 hour window. Someone asked in the group chat how the exam was, and I had already taken it and gotten an A (because it was automatically graded), so I said something along the lines of “It was pretty easy, I got an A.” I knew I wanted to do grad school and I’m not a fan of cheating, so didn’t give away any answers or test information.
I thought that was it, but then throughout the day, I had not one, not two, but THREE people offer me varying amounts of bribes to take their exams for them. It was kind of funny actually, one offered like $10, another offered $50, and the last offered $100. Anyways, I didn’t know any of these people, and the class was basically asynchronous so we didn’t interact on zoom much at all. I didn’t want to get in trouble and I also hate people who cheat, especially those who try to make it pay to win. So, I took screenshots and sent them all to my professor and I let him know I wasn’t involved with any cheating. Don’t know what happened to any of them, but he said he’d be contacting the honor board so I assume they were all caught red handed and punished to some degree.
Edit: For everyone saying I’m a rat/insulting me in the comments, this is r/confession , I wouldn’t be posting here if it was something I was proud of lol
And for anyone asking me why I did it, it was definitely a bit of self-righteousness, but I also wanted to make sure I wasn’t complicit if they got caught anyways without me intervening. As I said in the post, I knew I wanted to do grad school and didn’t want to take a chance at being complicit
Also, to give some context, this was an upper level elective for my major, not a gen ed class
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