This is probably not all that surprising to some, but Sydney uni students have been caught cheating. Felix downplays it by saying it's the typical reaction of a confused student who doesn't add a footnote/reference, but I don't think this is the case on average. Most of the time, I think copying is quite intentional, at least in the first two years. I remember lunch-breaks where there was a whole table of students sharing around an assignment due on the day. Funnier still is a time when a complete stranger asked a friend for his assignment so that she could refer to it when writing out the solution. There'll be no moralizing from me here; I really don't see myself as above any of these people.

Admittedly, when I first saw the headline, for some inexplicable reason I was worried that I was going to be questioned, in fear that one of those hazy nights of collaboration unknowingly went too far. In part, I am also reminded of the strange incident where someone who shares my name (imagine that!) was caught copying an assignment which I also did. My friend, unaware of this namesake, anxiously asked me whether I had done anything wrong, and I replied "Err I don't think so!". It turned out that my namesake had quite freely copied someone else's assignment, and was harshly questioned by the lecturer. Yet to this day I am wary whenever the subject comes up!