So you're saying the moral of the story is 'don't pay attention at school/uni, and just cheat your way through because nothing you learn there is relevant'?
It's funny, because I use a lot of what I was taught at uni at my new job, especially in terms of programming and web-based systems. A phrase that I've heard a LOT from other graduates I know is 'I wish I'd paid more attention in *insert module name*, you don't realise how valuable that is'. As a faculty rep in my final year I had to give a pep talk to a bunch of militant second years who were complaining about a core module (TCP/IP Networking, FYI) because they said it was boring (which was true) and that it isn't useful. I had to explain that if there was one module I'd wished I had paid attention to and not dossed about in, it was that one, because when I worked in British Telecom's R&D dept, I didn't know what the hell was going on - it was all in that modules notes.
Basically - don't cheat, pay attention at school and always try your best to learn new things, you never know when it'll come in handy - and if you're having to learn something related to a career you want, you'll almost certainly regret not trying harder. If you cheat and someone expects that you can do something you can't, you're going to look like an idiot. A morally dubious idiot.
- Dag
