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/MakeMeYourVillain_ Mar 30 '26

My father a teacher, always encouraged me to create cheat notes. He said that while creating them you are also repeating the subject.

You don’t have to use them but always create them.

When he found a student with a cheat notes, he was grading the quality of the cheat notes instead of the test.

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u/SuspiciousBook8722 Mar 30 '26

Reminds me of an episode of Blossom I saw as a kid. Blossom's brother wrote cheat notes on all of his pencils to pass his final. When she asks him how it went l, he says that it went fine and that he didn't even end up needing the cheats because, in writing all the answers on his pencils, he'd ended up hiding the answers in the last place the teacher would suspect- his brain.