Personal Narrative: My Ethical Dilemmas

The most recent ethical dilemma that I have faced occurred just a few days before the October 2014 SAT. On this test, I was determined to improve my my math score as a way to increase my competitiveness for the academy. Several of my classmates knew this, and attempted to convince me to take a focusing drug in order to improve my score, and I was truly tempted to take it achieve this goal. Who would know that I had committed such an unethical act? Who would be able to judge me based on this one singular event? I would know, and I would be able to judge myself based on this event. I knew that the guilt of committing this act would most definitely weigh on my conscious should that have been the reason I gained entrance into the academy, and I knew that such an act would violate the Honor Code that I would hopefully hold myself to come July 2015. How would I be able to adhere to that code at the Academy if I was not even able to follow it in such a simple circumstance such as this? After this rumination, I denied the drug and instead resolved to increase my efforts in studying for the exam, spending at times four to five hours a day reviewing the material. As a result, I succeeded in increasing my mathematics score on the SAT, and I also learned to not buckle to the suggestions of morally ambiguous peers. I held …show more content…
I hold my integrity as one of my core values, and I know that any breach of this integrity would benefit no one, and would absolutely destroy any prospects I may have. This event showed me how important it was to maintain my integrity, and how important it is to take the morally correct and wholesome path. Should a similar situation occur, I would most certainly take the righteous route , and I would most certainly hold myself to the Honor Code of the United States Air Force