I was this kind of student, to the bemusement of people at my year. And I can say we like to tell ourselves that - that by honest learning we somehow gained more. But to be honest, what you do at work is so different than what you learn at university that in retrospect, you may just cheat your way through bullshit exams. If you&#x27;re an autodidact, it could be even better for you, since you won&#x27;t waste so much time learning nonsense to pass arbitrary performance bars.<p>I&#x27;m not encouraging cheating here. But I learned that sometimes you have to accept that you hold to some rules just because morality, and you don&#x27;t need to invent practical reasons to justify it to yourself and others. Sometimes following the rules leaves you worse off, but the world where people follow those rules is better for everyone than the world where they don&#x27;t, and I want to live in the former.