Cheaters 1, Hard-workers 0

This last month or so has been very destructive. We’ve had midterms, quizzes, assignments, a final, and a nice big cheating scandal resulting in nothing. Needless to say, I’m trying to reconstruct myself, and drinking on a Monday night really wasn’t the best way to start things off. But, what’s done is done and I always like to find the positive side of any situation.
To begin with, I had my microbiology final last Friday. I am never one to stay after a test to find out my mark (although in retrospect I should’ve for this one). Normally, after I’m finished a test I relish in packing up course notes, taking down all the post-its or charts I hung on my wall, and just putting everything away. Oddly though, after this final, I couldn’t bring myself to take any of the notes or charts off my walls – for some reason it just didn’t feel right (at times I get eerie bouts of clairvoyance). Low and behold, Monday we found out that cheat sheets were discovered in the washrooms used during the test, and we were informed that all 350 students (regardless of whether they used the bathroom or not) may have to re-write the final, as a consequence for the few. The rest of the week was a huge hoopla regarding the issue. The course of this semester has gotten worse as the weeks have gone by, so when I heard we may have to re-write the test I had no feelings at all. I've been so numbed out by all the other work we have, I couldn’t have cared one way or another (its like being $100 000 in debt – what’s another $10 000).
I am disgusted by the fact that there are people that may have cheated on our test. It reminds me of undergrad. There were some students that spent so much time figuring out how they could scam the system when it would’ve made more sense to just use that time to study. Well, it seems that the cheaters won again this time. After a week of noise making, no action was taken and our grades were finally released yesterday.
So when do the cheaters stop winning? Is it only about feeling good on the inside, and taking pride and satisfaction in my own hard work? It’s so infuriating – I cannot wish misfortune and bad luck on people, but I do believe in karma. Those who have cheated may have passed their microbiology final now, but in the grand scheme of things, maybe they will be cheated out something much larger in the future. Also, this group of cheater’s are particularly stupid – if you’re gonna cheat in the bathroom – flush your damn cheat sheet down the toilet when you’re done dumbass. I have so much more I would love to say regarding the situation, but frankly it's all talk, and nothing will come of it – so why waste precious study time?