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"  So I definitely can&amp;#039;t believe that my first year of college only has one month left! There&amp;#039;s still so much left to do though in the remaining weeks! As of this Wednesday, I&amp;#039;ll be leaving for Dayton, Ohio to compete in the WGI (Winter Guard International) World Championships! I, along with the other 19 members of Etude, will be competing in the Independent Open class, and with the good things we&amp;#039;ve been hearing from judges so far, we&amp;#039;re really excited to perform for the rest of the color guard world! The eight or nine-hour road trip up to Dayton isn&amp;#039;t going to be the best thing in the world, but the three days in Ohio are bound to be fabulous! Here&amp;#039;s hoping, anyways!   Also, I&amp;#039;ve been getting ready for my Italy Maymester trip which kicks off on May 9! Soon enough, we&amp;#039;ll be spending three weeks in the heart of Italy! However, last Wednesday, I was almost certain I might not be able to finish this year with a clean record. See, there were two identical copies of a project turned into my journalism professor, one of which was mine. I spent several hours working on that project in the Coliseum (where the &amp;quot;J-School&amp;quot; is based) and apparently forgot to delete the final product after printing it and saving it on my USB drive. Thus, someone else in my class found my work and decided to put his name on it and submit it to the professor as his own work. The email I got that requested I pay the professor an office visit did NOT sound like I was in a good shape, despite the fact that I hadn&amp;#039;t done anything wrong. I called my mom and talked to all my friends in the dorm, all of whom know how serious plagiarism is in universities, and no one really knew what was going to happen to me. Luckily, as I walked in to talk with the professor and explain that I simply forgot to delete my work from the system, the other student who happened to find my work on a computer was confessing that he&amp;#039;d turned in an assignment he hadn&amp;#039;t actually done. I was off the hook, but still felt bad for my professor. The lesson learned - always delete work once you&amp;#039;ve got it backed-up somewhere else. The one time I was in a rush and DIDN&amp;#039;T delete it was the one time someone else got a hold of it. Best Wishes, Alex! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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