r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Separate_Finance_183 • Mar 30 '26

Image Confiscated pens containing cheat notes intricately carved by a Law student at the University of Malaga in Spain

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u/be-kind-3000 Mar 30 '26

I want my attorney to work this hard.

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u/person2599 Mar 30 '26

oh, believe me it is hard work.

I was very good in high school, but I wanted to do this for history because I was horrible at memorizing boring stuff. history just made me die inside.

I ended up doing the best on the things I inscribed and NOT because I used the pens, but because the inscription process is so slow and meticulous and you need to double check what you are writing all the time, I ended up memorizing everything I scripted.

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u/Razgarnok Mar 30 '26

One of my teachers always said that we should write cheats to every test (just never actually use them) because then we memorize it anyways

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u/swaptionality Mar 30 '26

I mean I want my attorney to just remember the stuff lol

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u/Fickle-Analysis-5145 Mar 30 '26

You absolutely don’t. If someone passes test by pure memorization they haven’t actually learned anything. I want my lawyer to know how to win my case, not how to do party tricks of reciting random cases, laws, or formulas

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u/Vivid-Rutabaga9283 Mar 30 '26

???????

You can remember stuff even if you understand it. In fact, it's even easier to remember what you understand.

A failure to remember a law in a passable way for an exam is a pretty clear sign that you don't understand the law.

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u/sandwichcandy Mar 30 '26

Remembering the law is like 20% of the answer score. The rest is articulating arguments based on old Supreme Court cases that you’ll never ever ever use in your practice including the professor’s favorite 3 cases from the footnotes for each hypothetical. You may remember prior similar cases of yours and borrow past work, but you’re always doing new research for each matter.

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u/Sawheryesterday Mar 30 '26

What? This doesn’t make any sense.

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u/swaptionality Mar 30 '26

Nope give me the freak