While I was working on my biology termpaper for my first year in college, I decided to go back to my high school books and papers that I had at home. I got amazing grades in high school biology, which is what fueled me to take it as a major in college. That and my high school biology teacher was the bomb.

I had written a couple of research papers when I was in twelfth grade biology and I got perfect marks on both of them. I was considering choosing one of these to hand in to my university professor, as part of my research assignment. I was not sure whether this was ethical or not, as I still did all the work myself.

My friend and I were going through the term papers that I had written in high school and we both decided that the work was not what would be expected of a college essay, so I couldn’t really just use them. I could, however, use them as part of my research information. I am glad, in the end that I decided not to hand one in, as I think I would have ended up feeling guilty anyway.