• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Pfft, amateur. Back in my day, we had to spend hours writing practically microscopic notes with the finest-point pen we could find on heavy-weighted paper so it didn’t rip through the page! I once even wore a pair of those magnifying glasses surgeons use just to read them, getting special dispensation because I wear glasses anyway, and the test proctor was an idiot.

    Or writing notes on your arms in UV ink and making sure to sit by the window so the bright sun would make it kinda visible… etching answers into the sides of pencils, programming them into our TI-82s… oh, the crazy spy-level shit we would get into before smartphones.

    The irony was that all that effort was usually sufficient to memorize the information anyway, and I’d rarely actually rely on the notes during the test. It was still kinda fun, though.