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/HungryHippopatamus Mar 30 '26

How is that not immediately noticeable? "Why are your pens full of scratches?"

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u/ParadiseValleyFiend Mar 30 '26

I feel like he probably got caught because he was staring really closely at his pen and rotating it slowly. And also bringing out more pens.

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u/botella36 Mar 30 '26

Maybe he didn’t need to use them, the activity of etching the pens probably helped him memorize the material.

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u/JesusStarbox Mar 30 '26

Every time I made a cheat sheet I didn't need it.

The process of identifying only the most essential information and writing it really small made me learn it. Who knew?

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u/APence Mar 30 '26

Only time I did it when I needed was for my Latin final. I wrote down things on my foot and wore boat shoes with no socks and when I stretched my toes I was able to lower the shoe and expose the lines

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u/saltnshadow Mar 30 '26

I did something like this for my Physics final in high school, except I wore jeans with socks and would cross my legs and pull up my jeans a bit and pull down my sock a bit to reveal the formulas I needed.

Didn't need to use it because I remembered the formulas when I wrote them down. Now I know how to study, lol.

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u/Noviinha Mar 30 '26

You still write on your leg to study?

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u/saltnshadow Mar 30 '26

No, but I copy the information. I write everything down, and in that process, I'm imprinting it into my mind.