I actively blogged about my thesis and it somehow came up in one of those older-model plagarism detectors (this was years and years ago, it might have been just some hamfisted google search).
The (boomer) profs convened a 'panel' without my knowledge and decided I had in fact plagiarized, and informed me I was in deep doo doo. I was pretty much ready to lose my mind, my career was over, years wasted, etc.
Luckily I was buddy with a Princeton prof. who had dealt with this sort of thing and he guided me through the minefield. I came out fine, but my school never apologized.
Failure is often just temporary and might not even be real failure.
I actively blogged about my thesis and it somehow came up in one of those older-model plagarism detectors (this was years and years ago, it might have been just some hamfisted google search).
The (boomer) profs convened a 'panel' without my knowledge and decided I had in fact plagiarized, and informed me I was in deep doo doo. I was pretty much ready to lose my mind, my career was over, years wasted, etc.
Luckily I was buddy with a Princeton prof. who had dealt with this sort of thing and he guided me through the minefield. I came out fine, but my school never apologized.
Failure is often just temporary and might not even be real failure.