I am amazed she had the guts to do it, that she thought she wouldn’t be found out…Maybe she really believed she wrote it herself: I believe that’s possible. Last year something similar happened to me. A colleague of mine copy/pasted half a chapter of my PhD, which I had circulated for discussion, into her PhD, then emailed it to me and a couple of other people for comments!! She claims she really didn’t understand how my work ended up in her chapter. And strangely enough that might be true, some sort of cognitive dissonance. Not that I’m ever going to trust her with my work again ;-).

Not that this compares to someone stealing one’s PhD or anything, but I plagiarized this year, five lines from a very obvious website for the topic I was covering. I would lose credit if the work that I didn’t have ready wasn’t done and had nothing for the teacher at that point. My friends say, “you idiot!” and most people ask me “what were you thinking?!” I respond that I have no idea why I thought such a stupid ploy would work, well actually I do. I was kind of riding on a stroke of luck (and a year of no self reliance and, as the teacher bluntly puts it, “self indulgence”). Speaking of blunt, I remember when you said that Sagittarians are blunt. I have an academic advisor that is a Sagittarius and one day, in between saying something last year said to me “you dish out a lot of crap” and moved right on. People really characterize her as extremely blunt.

But as to the Double Libra who responded back, not to be obtuse or anything, but why do you think it was cool?

Thanks Lupa!