Academic integrity needs to be taken much more serious than it is. It plays a very important role in who you are as a college student and your direct learning of the material. Personal and academic integrity are important to me because they reflect who I am and how serious I take my education. I believe that academic integrity and personal integrity go fairly hand in hand because if you have personal integrity it flows over into your academic life too. Those who hold themselves accountable for their personal integrity know that their education is a part of their personal life too therefore both hold substantial importance. In Professor Bill Taylor’s “A Message to My Students”, he explains the weight of integrity as “an essential part of any …show more content…
A few of which include: integrity, community as an overall student and community as member of a club or organization, accountability and responsibility, and respect. Community plays a much bigger role than one may think. Every day and every where, you are representing something other than just yourself. If you’re apart of a club, sports team, or Greek life, you are representing them as well as Oregon State University. I think this gets looked passed a lot because it isn’t written right on us, but is definitely apparent. Accountability and responsibility are vast factors in our lives. Everything we do or everything we say, we must take accountability for. Every action has an equal or opposite reaction. Many actions may require consequences, positive or negative; Which we must accept. If we do not take accountability and responsibility for ourselves and our actions, we will never grow as a person. Respect isn’t written out, isn’t said out loud- it’s earned and given. We must respect ourselves and others always. Respect how someone likes to go about their day, how someone dresses, how hard someone has to work to be good at something, or how hard the professors have to work to help us students expand our intelligence. Respecting yourself is equally important. Respect yourself enough to hold yourself to a high standard, to value your education, and to demand