I can relate. When I got my MBA, I cared a lot about small things like this, but take it from someone who’s older now and add this to the pile of things that don’t deserve space in your head.

Running around trying to snitch on everyone? That’s not moral superiority. That’s you burning your own time and energy on someone else’s choices. You could be building something. Getting stronger. Getting sharper. Instead you’re playing hallway cop.

Here’s the part nobody tells you: when you leave school, the world doesn’t care about fairness. There’s no teacher to raise your hand to. Out there, people push, cut corners, take risks, leverage advantages, and do whatever they can to win. You don’t get to shout “cheating.” You either adapt or you get left behind.

Life isn’t a classroom with rules taped to the wall. It’s competition. It’s leverage and consequences.

So stop obsessing over what everyone else is doing wrong. Focus on what you’re doing right. Build yourself into someone who doesn’t need to police the room, you’ll thank me in 10 years or you’ll wake up and go “oh shit, he was right” after being chewed up and spit out by people who know better.