I admit to some plagurization in University. 1st year English, we all had to take it and it was always a hell class. Needed good marks to get into the 2nd year program so my second semester I borrowed a girl's essay that she wrote the semester before on the same novel. I rewrote it in my voice but the concepts were the same. She got 84, I got 84.
I had a micro-econ final that I knew nothing about. I did the classic "if you don't know the answer go onto the next question". I got to the last page, flipped it over, and started again with a blank exam. I had no idea what I was doing and only managed to write some stuff down because I could see what the guy in front of me was doing. It still didn't help, I failed wonderfully with a 42.(...and then doubled my mark in the summer when I took it again.)
I guess it depends on the type of cheating with me as face it, in the real world we borrow and reuse other people's work all the time. Most of the time it is "public domain" which I don't think is a problem. Using copywritten work and treating it as your own is a different matter. Needing notes on how a formula goes together isn't as big a deal to me as I think in most cases we don't have to pull that stuff out of memory in the real world and if you understand how to apply the formula or the number generated that's the key learning piece. I do recognize there are exceptions to this and in certain cases knowing the formula or whatever will save lives.
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