What I Hate

I hate when you're at school and people are constantly comparing grades with you. You feel pretty crappy when people deliberately point out that they have higher grades, but it also make you feel angry when you know that the only reason they have higher grades is because they cheat.

With the whole mentality that you won't get into college if you don't have a 4.0 gpa, students have lost there moral compass replacing it with an innovative mind. When I say "innovative mind" I mean an innovative mind for cheating. I've known people to place notes in their calculator cases, write answers on their erasers, even right notes on their legs in the holes of their jeans. There are even students that are so desperate that they will literally beg people for any hints on the next test. It's disconcerting and plain disgusting.

Our generation has become nothing more than a generation of cheaters. To those who actually do their work honestly, it is depressing to know that someone will always have a higher grade than you, not necessarily because they studied more, but because they cheated. Students have become too familiar with the mind set that "you got to do what is necessary." Necessary being cheating? I don't think so.

So to all the cheaters out there, you have made hard work seem meaningless, you have extinguished the concept of morality, and you have changed the world for the worst. Your actions do mean something and when you chose to act wrongly, they have harmful effects for everyone else.