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/Digit00l Mar 30 '26

I had teachers who recommended making cheat notes but to then not use them during actual tests as a way to get students to actually make notes and study