Angelina didn’t worry that she was committing a crime. She knew she was, but it didn’t matter. She was more worried about her upcoming presentation before her boss. It was a high-stress moment for an aspiring writer working a prestigious internship.

“I was so terrified of my boss,” said Angelina (not her actual name), “and was about to go into …

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After a night in jail, two Rice University juniors, Will and Simon, approached a county judge. They couldn’t deny that they had broken the law, but their lawyer had a trick up his sleeve. He would read their academic transcripts:

“3.95 out of 4.0 in Electrical Engineering, with top grades in Digital Logic Design, Quantum Theory and Advanced Linear Algebra.”…

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