Editors Note: Some names were removed to protect the students anonymity

Working a late-night shift at work, the last thing many people would have in mind is studying for an upcoming midterm. So to many, making a cheat sheet sounds like a great idea.
“Yeah, I’ve cheated before,” an 18-year-old student said. “But who really hasn’t cheated before? I think everyone has cheated. It’s so easy to cheat. I’ve looked at the other people’s tests around me and I also programmed equations in my calculator before. At the moment, I didn’t really feel guilty but after I felt it a little bit.”
Students use various methods to try to get an unfair advantage over other students, including cameras, smart phones, the Internet, and cheat sheets.
“I felt a little bad because I got an A on a majority of my tests by cheating,” a 20-year-old student, English major, said. “I’ve even used my BlackBerry cell phone to take pictures of my scantron and send it back and forth between me and my friends to swap answers.”
The majority of the students indeed thought that getting an A through cheating was worth it, but after they all felt a little bit of guilt.
Harold Tyler, director of student development, said, professors have caught students in some bizarre ways.
Two students handed in the exact same essay questions for a final, which resulted with both students receiving zeros for the final.
Tyler said, cheating has increased due to the advancement of technology in recent years.
The days of making cheat sheets and looking over people’s shoulders is obsolete; there are tutorials on YouTube on how to cheat on exams and there are also tutorials on how to use digital photo-editing software to print exam cheat information on a coke label.
Although cheating has been widespread, there are some students who have never have cheated before.
“I have never cheated before,” Brandi Fry, nursing major, said. “I’ve been cheated off of before though. Other students would pay people to write for them or they would buy papers online. I’ve also seen students program answers into their calculators.”
The consequences are severe when one gets caught in the act of cheating here. The instructor may assign a failing grade, dismiss the student from class, recommend suspension or expulsion, and an Academic Dishonesty Report is filled out.
“I actually got caught before and it wasn’t pretty,” a 19-year-old mathematics major said. “I had a cheat sheet and was using it for the midterm, but I got caught using it and received an automatic zero on the test and received one of those disciplinary forms. I’ll probably never try to cheat again.”