> I also made up a citation in 11th grade to fill out the citation for an essay I had to write. This was back before it was easy to double check things online.

I love this comment. I also suspect that even if it were easy for your 11th grade teacher to check, they probably were not interested enough to do so.

Story Time: When I was in 4th grade back in the '70s, I had to write a book report: the book was a novel about astronauts traveling through space.

In my report, I lied about the plot because there was a romantic subplot between two of the astronauts... and my 4th grade brain didn't want to discuss anything so "disgusting."

I handed in my report and then spent the next two weeks in terror thinking that my teacher would read the book and realize that I lied about the plot.

Obviously, my 4th grade teacher had no interest in reading a space-travel book targeted to grade schoolers, so my lies went undetected.

I hereby apologize to Mrs. Davis for my sins.