Recently, I was accused and "convicted" for cheating by a professor of mine. She is my Government professor and is something like a hard-assed bitch. My vulgar language is due to how stupid I think this situation is. Let me shed some light on why I think that I am not guilty.

I was doing an online quiz with a friend of mine from said Government class. On such quizzes it is common to use the book and any other resources you may find helpful, this goes for any class. We were in the midst of a quiz when she came down to the room we were in and proceeded to at least sound like she was joking in saying that we were cheating. We thought she was joking and proceeded with the quiz as they are timed. When we finished we went to her class and she told the class that "two students" had been cheating on the quizzes and that she was going to change how she administered the quizzes. She then proceeds to give us zeros on that quiz and that drops my grade to a 70. I cannot, as I have explained before, get below a 80 in any of my classes and so this pissed me off especially considering that I did not think that I was cheating.

I sent her an email saying that I did not believe I had been cheating and that she should have thoroughly given her definition of cheating in the syllabus because I felt as though I had been misinformed.

She tells me that I am "getting an attitude with her" and that the quizzes should be done using only the brain to take them and that they are a test of your knowledge. She refuses to outline her definition of cheating, which I thought a very reasonable request, and I feel that leaves us in the dark as to what she expects form us on these quizzes.

Basically, this class is hell and I would not recommend it to my worst enemy.

Do not, I repeat, do not take a class with Gretchen Lockett. EVER.