Q: An allegation of Academic Integrity made against me. What should I do?
I'm a student at a CUNY college and during this Spring semester I took 5 classes and most, if not all, had math-related topics. I was able to manage keeping a good grades for all but one class, Linear Algebra. I had a decent grade on my first exam, I studied for the second midterm, which was based on what we have done in the homework which I used as basis for studying and I even went to her office hours. but All the confidence I had built completely left me when I saw the exam, some questions were extremely long and the others were much more complicated than the the homework exercises. I believed it to be impossible to finish in 90 minutes. Consequently out of distress and I asked a peer how to do one of the questions. I am not proud of what I did, and I hate myself or doing such. I received a 0 on the exam and I decided to withdraw from the course because I knew I wouldn't be able to pass the class with a C. 2 weeks later I was reported.
A: This is a serious matter. Having admitted to cheating, you have few options. You must not admit to anything again, and find a way out of this that does lead to expulsion.
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