Med student reports his study partner to the academic honesty office for copying his notes and taking credit for them: 'I confronted him, he brushed it off and said, “It’s just notes, chill.” So I reported it to the academic honesty office'

Hey, can I copy your homework… Sure, just let me report you to the academic honesty office first. 

Ready for another old joke? What do you call a Med Student who got all D's by copying his friend's homework?

Doctor!..

We've all been there, you forgot about a test or an assignment, or just got too busy in our personal life and couldn't get it done beforehand. You come rushing, blustering into class slyly and as quietly as possible, trying to get your friend's attention so that you can try and get their homework off them and quickly copy some answers down before the teacher asks everyone to turn it in.

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    "AITA for reporting my friend to the university after he cheated using my notes?"

    I (22M) am in med school and have this friend, let's call him Jake. We've studied together a few times, and I shared my annotated notes with him before a big exam. I made them myself, with diagrams, explanations, and even some mnemonics I came up with.
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  • "Friend" here is used pretty loosely, but even study partners deserve a bit of honest conversation and hashing things out before you turn them into authorities. Let's be real, what's going on here is actually a good bit worse than just copying notes… The fact that he's actually taking credit for work that someone else has done and submitting something he copied verbatim as his own work leads to a huge issue of credibility here.

    Still, is the Med Student's reaction extreme, or does the punishment here fit the crime?

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    A few weeks later, one of our professors used one of my made- up mnemonics in a lecture, crediting "an anonymous student." I was confused. Turns out Jake had submitted my notes (with his name on them) to the prof's "student tips" portal, where students can share study tips for extra credit. He didn't even mention me.
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    I confronted him, he brushed it off and said, "It's just notes, chill." So I reported it to the academic honesty office, since it technically falls under plagiarism. Now he's under investigation and might lose the extra credit worse. - or Our mutual friends are calling me petty and saying I could've just talked to him. AITA?
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    OP has offered the following explanation for why they think they might be the ah le: I reported my friend because he took my notes and submitted them as his own to get extra credit, without asking or crediting me. I guess I might be the a hle because I went straight to the university instead of talking to him first, and now he's facing real consequences. Maybe I overreacted?
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    Puzzleheaded-Age-2... 12h ago You're in med school. He needs to be held to a HIGHER standard, not a lower one. It's alarming that someone with such poor judgment is a med student. You did the right thing. You don't know what else he's been doing to skirt the rules and expectations. What if those few extra credit points are the difference between him graduating or not? He would literally have lied his way into a field that requires integrity and sound judgement. NTA
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    MarionberryPlus8474 12h ago NTA. To the friends who say "you should have just talked to him"- -You DID talk to him, and he blew you off. Plagiarism is serious, at many schools it can lead to expulsion. He brought this on himself.
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    lamIrene 13h ago . NTA. I'm sure he's shocked that he has negative consequences for using you and then treating you like cr p. He made his bed...now he gets to lay in it.
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    ARandomStudentHere • 12h ago NTA, he should've thought about the consequences before doing that. Also MED SCHOOL?? I wouldn't want someone like that to be my doctor, its better he gets the consequences now rather than later when he misdiagnoses someone and causes their death.
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    strangenamereqs • 12h ago You DID talk to him. This is someone who's going to be a doctor. Impeccable ethics is number one. You did the right thing. However, I don't know why you told anyone what you did
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