Honor And Duty

There was a time when I experienced the relationship between honor and duty at the Citadel. It happened during second semester in my freshman year. I took a challenging engineering class. It was about coding using C++ computer language. I had experience about coding before because I took Computer Science as my minor. So, I did really well in that class. Most of the time, my friends in that class would ask me to help them doing their homework. I could not refuse because they were my classmates. So, I tried to help them as much as I could. Sometimes, I had to show them my code because it was really hard to explain without seeing a picture. I tried to explain it to them until they understood, and they could finish it on their own. The problem occurred when one of my friends …show more content…
It was really hard to me because I knew what would be the punishment of the honor violation. Also, I was in contract with the Royal Thai Army. I would lost this contract if I got expelled from this school. The first thing that came to my mind was I need to tell the professor what I had done all of those time. After class, I emailed him saying that I had helped some of my friends in the class, also including their names, and I always told them not to copy my code. I only showed the code to them when I could not explain a solution in words anymore. I also told my friends to explain this issue to the professor. I knew there was no other way to fix this problem except for telling the truth. I also believed that I did the right thing. I believed in my sense of honor that I helped my friends in the right way. I did not gave them the answers, so they could finish their works without learning anything. Instead, I taught them and showed them the way I solved the problems, so they understood the concepts and develop their own ways to solve those problems. That was why I was confident to tell him about what I had