Cheating. What exactly is cheating? In the dictionary cheating means to deprive of something valuable by the use of fraud. In other words cheating is when you use wrongfully obtained information for your certain situation. Everywhere you go you see some form of cheating. Whether it be at school, at work, or even at home. What I want to know is why do students feel that they need to cheat?
             During their high school years a lot of teens are put under pressure to earn good grades and graduate on time. Sometimes teens get so caught up in this pressure, and start to think that the only way out is cheating. For example in the "Truths or Consequences" article, a high school student by the name of Hilary Caltagirone expresses her feelings about cheating: "You have to do whatever you have to do to get ahead." "IM going to college. IM going to get a good job. If that means I have to copy a couple answers or go on the Internet and get some old essays, then that's what IM going to do"(Relin p.10) This is a common way that a lot of people think. They think that cheating is the only way to get out of difficult situations. When in reality all they have to do is study the situation and apply themselves.
             Nowadays with the growth in technology, cheating is becoming easier day by day. Teens are using technology as a way of gaining access to sites that promote and/or assist them with cheating. Some teens even admit to cheating and being caught. For example in the article an anonymous student admits to cheating and explains how it felt afterwards when she had been caught. "I didn't feel like doing an English assignment,"the student explained, "so I found this story online and printed it out. My teacher said she really liked it and entered it for the award. I figured it wouldn't win, and nobody would ever find out. But when all this came out it was horrible. It was the worst thing I've ever been through in my life. I used to think that cheating wasn't...