Kristin: I actually considered talking to her. However, after watching how they acted about it (i.e., they obviously had no issues with it whatsoever), I figured it’d be a lost cause, me trying to convince them of their moral wrongdoing. I suppose it might have worked, but I seriously doubt it.

Fig: Well, keep in mind, I’ve had this professor many times, and we know each other fairly well out of class, too. So he’s more like a professor of mine, as well as a friend (which I will openly admit influenced my going to him). It didn’t seem odd at all talking directly to him.

I would most likely have written a note to the professor telling him what you told him in person, or called his office. I would not have wanted to be remembered as having spoken to him immediately prior to ’shit hitting the fan.’ Call me chicken….

But I would probably talked to the girl and tried to stop her from helping this guy, give her the ‘it’s not fair to the others’.

Two questions you ask: 1) what would I do? and 2) did you act right?

My answers: 1) probably nothing – let him see what happens in future, when he needs to do real work in the real world (these people seldom make it beyond the admin desk shuffling paper about) 2) yes, you’re in college, not kindergarten and this isn’t ‘telling on someone’, it’s informing your professor about how his system is abused – and the girl, well, she’s a kid and she made a mistake; hopefully she’s learnt a little lesson in both life and academics.

Will that work for you?