<p>uggg okay, so right before my calc test today I couldn’t find my calculator, so I borrowed a friend’s. I went in started taking the test, and had a problem with the calculator (turns out it was in degrees and not radians–no big deal) but while my teacher was trying to figure out why my calc wasn’t graphing properly, she looked in the y= things, and apparently my friend had some info stored in there (like formulas and stuff) which I didn’t know about. Now my teacher didn’t say anything she just erased it (was only two lines), and moved on with helping me. When it poped up I said “woa I don’t know where that same from” but I know that sounds cliche’d. I really don’t want any issues of academic dishonesty to go on my record, so I want to talk to her about this, but I don’t want it to sound like I just made it up to try to squeeze out of cheating. </p>
<p>Since she didn’t say anything then should I just let it drop and assume nothing will come of it or should I email her with my explanation??? I’m so freaking out right now. when I saw it on the calc I litterally almost started to shake I was so freaked out (saw my life flashing before my eyes kinda freaked out considering I want to go to law school).</p>
<p>Ah, I can understand why you are freaking out. Maybe you and your friend should go and talk to her about this, let your friend tell her that he put those things on the calculator.</p>
<p>Sounds like it may have been the formulas (not really, they are a calculator command) that you have to put there in order to do first and second derivatives. They are supposed, and HAVE to be there. Not cheating whatsoever.</p>
<p>Otherwise, I dont see why he would put something in the y= when he can put it in the program section.</p>
<p>I can see what you’re freaking out about… did you get a chance to see what the y= formulas were before they were erased? was it test-relevent material? If it was just things your friend had graphed previously then I don’t consider that cheating at all… most people don’t delete things after they graph them.
Does the professor know your name? If she doesn’t know your name then she won’t know who to take off points for or report for cheating.
If I was in your shoes, I don’t know what I’d do. It seems to me that if it was problematic, she would have said something to you and stopped you from continuing the exam. Whenever someone in my classes is caught cheating (not very often), they are forced to turn in thier test immediatly and the professor notes who they were and what they did.
The fact that you came to her to ask for help with your calc helps you in that if you knew it was there, you probably would have done something about it before asking for help.</p>
<p>it was a ti-89, and it was test relevant stuff–all of the calc 1 classes do the same things at the same time, just not the same test schedule. And she most deffinetly knows my name. My class only has 30ish people, and she only teaches two sections, plus I’m one of the more active people.</p>
<p>I ended up calling her that night and it turns out she hadn’t thought anything of it, so I’m still good.</p>