Academic Honesty

To me, academic honesty is getting your homework done on time, because if you don't you are cheating yourself out, making your work your own and not someone else's, and being the best student you can be. With all these in mind, being honest in your academics will soon get you far in life and help you achieve your goals. I believe students often resort to dishonesty such as plagiarism because they did not have their focus until last second, or feel really lazy and just don't want to do the work. They need to realize that college is a choice, if they don't want to do the work than they should not be in college. All they are doing is cheating themselves and the author out of work. There are severe consequences of plagiarism that I do not think people realize. You could end up serving time, which for me, its not worth it. It doesn't take much to research and especially with the resources students have now-a-days, they could get a research paper done in no time at all and in their very own words. The homework part is just on the student, but I know of people, and I am guilty of this that I will tell the teacher that 'I didn't bring the assignment, but its done' or 'My grandma was in the hospital all weekend and could not get to it.' This is cheating yourself because though that may have been how you could get by in high school, college is different. All in all, be honest to yourself and to your work and you will succeed.