Honesty

For Converse 101 we were challenged to be honest for 24 hours and see how we did. Well I would have to say it was pretty easy for me. I think this experience could be difficult for people who were never told not to lie or cheat. If you have a strong set of morals and you believe in doing the right thing, being honest will just come natural. At Converse College academic integrity is taken very seriously. All new students have to sign the Honor Code, which means they pledge to be honest and do what is right. Academic integrity is very important in the college setting. Your professors expect you to do your own work and they trust that it is yours. Having the Honor Code you know you are in a trustworthy and respectful environment. Your professors trust you and you can trust your classmates because they all signed it just like you did. It also levels the playing field, someone cannot get ahead of you by using someone else's ideas while you did your own work and can up with your own ideas. Also knowing that you did you own work and took your time you have a sense of pride because you know you earned the grade you got. You also know you earned your degree and it means something to you and you learned what you were suppose too. But overall if you do the reading and write the paper you will learn the material better than if you cheat on it. So being honest with your work will help you in the future.

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt (26th President)

*C.E.R.