sechan19 | Attention Cheaters: You Ain't Slick.

I spotted my first official that-dude-is-totally-cheating cheater this morning in Intro to Asian Exam #2. In a room of 180 people, he was the only one who couldn't seem to keep his eyes on his own paper or the projection screen. I spotted him as I was doing my rounds and began a major concentrated surveillance of his behavior, which--given that he was on the watch for TAs--he noticed immediately. I'm pretty sure I cut into his cheating habits significantly, and I know that I scared the hell out of him. After about twenty minutes of my obvious maddogging, his hands began to shake and he became visibly frustrated and angry.

Unfortunately, the kid isn't mine. He's my coworker's, and she isn't sure of his exact name--nor of the name of the girl he was cribbing off of (who we think is his girlfriend and probably in on the scheme)--so it's hard to do much about it at this point. But for the next test, we'll have our eye on him and the professor will be aware of the potential situation. If it appears to be happening again, I'm going to come down on them like a pile of rocks.

As an aside, I'd also love to sit that girl down and let her know that no guy is worth that kind of exploitation, and that she should kick his punk ass to the curb, but I suspect that such an action is outside of my job description and probably translatable as some form of personal harassment. But seriously, it makes my fiercely-independent-bitch meter ping like a motherfucker.