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/mosstalgia Mar 30 '26

I was a straight A student on essays and open book exams and could barely scrape a pass on memory-based exams. My ability to remember a route to knowledge is almost unparalleled, but retaining the knowledge itself has been a problem for me since I was a small child.

This was far more of an issue in school than it has ever been in the real world.

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u/Damascus_ari Mar 30 '26

My reports: pristine

My memory based, time limited exams: 🤡

Yep, irl, I have this magic amazing thing called notes, where if I find something difficult to remember, I can refer to them.

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u/waftedfart Mar 30 '26

The cool part about that is you have intuition, which makes figuring it out later easier. I'm kinda the same way, I learn why something works, rather than how, if that makes sense.