It already happened to me once in 2008 when my professor mistakenly gave me a credit for a class work that wasn’t mine. The work was about a writing a simple code for a program software that computes your average grade. He acknowledged the work he thought I did all alone at the end of the class. My classmate who really did most of the work already left so I was on the situation where do I take the credit or explain to him that my other classmate did most of the job.
It clearly came to my mind to tell the truth about the classwork because I felt it’s wrong to take someone’s work for your benefit without giving them credit. It’s like stealing someone’s hard earned money. My professor then replied back and said he thought I did it because the other guy was like always slacking in the class and never came on time. I understand what he was trying to say because at that point the guy was on the path of failing the class. So I said to my professor that may be he’s coming to realization of failing the class and wanted it to turned it around and passing it. The following meeting I told my classmate what happened and he was thankful for what I did.
