For Kiki Kho, a 19-year-old Texas college freshman, the moment of weakness came on the eve of a French exam. There were just so many words to memorize, and so little time to learn them.

So Kho did what many students do at some point in their academic careers. She cheated on the high school test.

Kho found a see-through plastic pen, opened up the back and slipped in a strip of paper with vocabulary words written on it.

Piece of cake. She passed the test.

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