I Jinxed It

Say what you will about bad luck but I knew that this was going to happen.

I started grading papers. They were looking REALLY good. Like to the point where I was handing out an excessive amount of A's good. Like, goodbye bell curve, hello everyone passing.

Then I told my students.

The very next paper I picked up. Plagiarism. Plagiarism everywhere.

I dug around in databases for the past two hours trying to show just how bad the sources were so I was justified in citing the student for plagiarism. It was great fun doing all of the research forensics of the deal and finding out new ways to use databases, but oh was that annoying. I knew I should have never said anything. I jinxed the entire deal.