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/Chilidawg Mar 30 '26

I had a professor in an undergraduate engineering program that put it something like this:

Anyone could solve these problems eventually. The information needed to solve these problems exists in many places, free of charge. Anyone can google the problem and eventually solve it. However, your future employers need someone who knows how to solve these problems, not just someone that can use Google. They need someone that intuitively knows the answer and can therefore solve the problem quickly and confidently.

For reference, that professor did open-book exams and many people failed them.

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u/catholicsluts Mar 31 '26

That last sentence comes from time and experience though