It's 9:45am. I had a test on Human Development at 9 and finished in 20 minutes. I studied all night and slept at 5am. So this girl comes in about 10 minutes late, sits down at the desk next to me and looks over at my paper. At first I thought she just wanted to make sure we could write on the test paper or something. But then I realized she was really looking to see which number I was up to (#30) because she then proceeds to flip to that page so that she can answer the questions by copying MY answers. I don't know this girl and have never spoken to her. For the next 10 minutes, she kept turning her head to look at my paper while I practiced some defensive movements - the hand block move (casually covering my answers by hovering my hand right over them), the flip and switch (turning pages quickly when she's on the page I'm working on), and the old keep-it-moving formula (flipping back and forth between pages to keep her guessing). It was annoying but I was almost done by the time she first sat down anyway.

Is she kidding me???? I'm not prudish about cheating and all, but come on!! There are some guidelines you just gotta follow, at least in my book.

1. If I don't know you and we're not friends or we've never spoken in our entire lives, no you may NOT look at my paper and assume I'm more than happy to let you take advantage of the studying I've done.

2. If you're going to attempt to copy from me and I don't know you, don't make it so damn obvious. Employ some discretion. Geez.

3. If I've studied for this test since the past week and the night before for 10 hours then you're out of luck because you are NOT going to get an A for something I've worked hard for.

What nerve!