If you’re going to break the rules, you might as well be brazen about it. At Enigmatic Diversions, the pseudonymous Chessack (“a 30-something biologist”) tells the tale of a student who handed in an egregiously plagiarized paper, got busted for it, and then promptly turned around and submitted the same paper in a different course.

“It is times like this that I would rather not even assign papers to students,” Chessack writes. “The plagiarism inquisition is just not something that I would like to spend my time on between semesters.”

In general, Chessack seems to treat the perpetrator with kid gloves. There’s something to be said for being slightly cruel when you write about your misbehaving students. (Warning: rude language.)

(Photo by Flickr user Digirebelle.)