When I first became a college professor, I was not surprised at the number of custom term papers that my students handed in to me. It was not long ago that I was in their shoes, myself, and I remember the pressures of trying to get everything done and the temptation of getting a little bit of extra help.

Lucky for them, I could tell the students that were trying and just needed a little boost and the students that were going to pay their way through college. I had one student that was struggling so much and she did not think she was going to make it. I, however, was not surprised when she came to me to talk about her thesis.

I told her that I had faith in her from day one. I knew she wanted it more than most of the other kids in my first class and I knew that she would one day be working on her dissertation. She thanked me for having faith in her and I told her that if I made a difference in just one person, than my job had been worth it.