My head was spinning like a rollercoaster; my stomach was full of butterflies from being so nervous. My hands felt like they were crapping and I couldn't feel my feet. I was sweating like a dong. I've never felt so guilty and mortified in my life, the feeling of knowing that you got caught for doing something that was wrong. After testing was over, as embarrassed as I was, I decided to go talk to the teacher.
"Mr. Duque, I"m so sorry for what I was doing, I don't know what I was thinking .
to do such a thing." I said.
"Well Judith, you had an option, to either take the test without cheating or to take .
it and cheat and you choose the bad one." He replied.
"Yes I understand, and I am so sorry for choosing to do the one I wasn't suppose .
to do. It was a mistake and I"ll never do it again." I said.
"What's done is done, and you"re going to have to deal with the .
consequences." He replied.
Luckily, he only gave me a D for the mid-term and a warning not to ever do it again. I felt so bad and embarrassed having my teacher to catch me cheating on a major exam. From that time on if I was ever tempted to cheat again, I would just think back at the time when I got caught cheating on my Chemistry's mid-term exam. .
Now don't get me wrong, I"m not saying that I've cheated on every test that I took. I"m just saying that if it was a test that I had no way of passing, I would have probably written anything by guessing or just looking at someone else's answer. I remember one time I had to take a history exam and I was definitely not ready for it. I had to read like ten pages and memorize the information. Once I started to read the first page, I was already discouraged from reading the rest of the pages. On the day of the test, I had no idea what I was going to do. I knew I wasn't going to do good because I didn't bother studying and I had no idea what I was going to do. There were even times when I just turned in my tests with just my name written on top of the page.