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I just had to bump this thread.
I want to comment on that "cheaters never prosper" proverb.
You know, even though I was an excelling student, sometimes I fell as a pawn/tool to my peers. At the time I was in junior high school, cheating was considered 'cool', so even though I probably was creative enough to write about things which I didn't read beforehand, I cheated instead, to be cool. I was probably the best cheater there ever was, always getting away with it. It became like a mastered skill to me. Anyways, as I gradually elevated through school, my grades started to wane.
It was not because I could not cheat. It was because I thought that I would never have to read again, always resorting to cheating as the first alternative. In the beginning of my "cheating career", I would actually read my lessons just in case, but that was a habit which evanesced with time. I was also dejected because my friends used to receive the blame if any of our writings and literature turned out to be marginally identical or similar. It was quite a selfish thing to do. At first, I tried to make myself believe that I didn't care what my tutors thought about me, but I was wrong. It did really matter to me. I was getting this odd gratifying feeling that I was somehow fooling them, when I was really the loser. I started to realize the error of my methods, so afterwards, I poured in my heartiest dedication into my studies upto medical school and beyond.
Cheaters really don't prosper at all. I suggest that you never cheat at all. You won't go very far with it.
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