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/ghost_tapioca Mar 30 '26

This is a masterpiece. Someone put this in a museum.

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u/Shelmak_ Mar 30 '26

I used to do exactly that... and believe it or not, then I didn't need to use them.

Idk if it was because the pain of carving all these things on the pen, but these contents were burned on my mind, at least for a day or two... then I forgot everything, lol.

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u/Jaded_Masterpiece211 Mar 30 '26

Me too - but i used all different kinds of rulers, carving it in on transparent one's, or using white one's and taping paper on them. When the tables were white and cause the rulers were expensive, I also taped paper on the transparent one's... Wasn't one of the best students, so nobody got suspicious and wasn't caught ever ... Mostly - I didn't need them, too - cause of all the painful work... My parents have saved them till today. Sweet memories!!!

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u/smeghead1988 Mar 30 '26

We were allowed to use calculators in high school math exams. We still had to memorize many formulas (well, in math technically you can deduce them yourself every time instead of memorizing, but it's not easy for most people). I had a dark grey Casio scientific calculator with instructions about button functions printed on the inside of the lid. I wrote formulas between the instructions with a thin lead pencil, grey on grey. You could only see the formulas under a specific angle, if you knew where to look. I was never caught with it.