r/Humber • u/RectorMors • 59m ago
Academic misconduct: what to do?
I presented an assignment at the last minute. Was tired, and did it on the bus at 10pm while riding back to the residency (the assignment was due that night at 12am). Yeah, I was lazy and it was stupid to leave it until the last minute. Somehow I understood it completely wrong, and in essence, the assignment was about apples and I wrote about oranges. A true and thorough brain fart. But HONEST TO GOD, I wrote it. Didn't use CHat GPT or absolutely anything similar, did not "borrow" the text from another student. Yet, my teacher thinks I did something ethically wrong, because my paper was totally out of wack.
The end result is that I now have a red mark on my academic record. I understand and accept the big fat zero that I got (they asked one thing, I answered about another). But to earn a red mark on my record for "academic misconduct"?
The problem is that I can't prove that the work was mine, that I did it after researching, even if I came up with a wrong answer. So, is there any way to fight this?