Bad Experience

Most people don't believe when I say that I've had tons of bad experience. their always like "No a goody good like you doesn't get in trouble", but then of course they get to know me =]. Even though I've had my fair share of bad experiences I learned a lot from one in particular. It was in the middle of 7th grade and I was in Social Studies or History class. Now you have to take into consideration that by then everyone knew I wasn't all that good because of all the pranks we had pulled on my Social Studies teacher, and I will admit I came up with some of them and was kind of the 'leader'. Anyway, we were in class and this boy named Dante sat in front of me. For once in my life I absolutely did not feel like doing the work assigned so I asked Dante if I could copy off of him since for once in his life he actually did the assignment on his own without my help. Yep, it didn't turn out very good, the teacher caught me and looking back on it the punishment wasn't bad at all compared to what she could have done. All she did was assign me and Dante to write an essay on why cheated is bad and get it signed by our parents. She did that when she could have easily suspended me, but at the time I didn't know how merciful she was actually being. Yes I was a bad child, but I had never actually gone to the principle's office and gotten yelled at, so I was deathly afraid of what was going to happen to me. When nothing further than the essay happened I learned that cheated wasn't worth it at all. I learned to not depend on other's knowledge but my own and I now thank that teacher (even though I still don't like her very much) because she taught me a valuable lesson. I also learned to deal with the consequences and don't fight them, I mean I was the one who got myself in trouble so I should have just owned up to what I did and dealt with the consequences. Now I don't cheat, I get help... theres a difference.