it might be a good idea to fess up to the admin what you did.
I would, if it weren't for the fact that I'm exploring any network problems for the admin's from a students perspective in a student account.

Why would it be a problem for the admins since they are supposed to be ethical about what they do? And, since the logs would be viewed only by the admins, then gaining access to the program won't allow you to see much other than the program itself (kinda like looking at event viewer as a regular user. You can see application logs but not security sensitive logs).
Why would it be a problem? If these logs were stored where a student could get them, they could easily watch the admin's actions. If the admins went to a program where you can edit accounts (Which, ironically, I found the other day), then this student could follow the steps that the admin took and find the program.

third party products out there to perform auditing of Novell (e.g. Netvision )
If that, however, is true.. then the chances that a student could get access is very slim.

Is there any way to find out if the admin's watch your folder browsing? It would be helpful for my report.

~Parr0t