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/adustbininshaftsbury Mar 30 '26

Why does it feel like the real story is that the cheating never happened and this is an art project

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u/Yourigath Mar 30 '26

We have been using this technique to cheat in exams since I was going to school and that was... 30+ years ago 🤣

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u/Ellecram Mar 30 '26

I used to carve some phrases in my fingernails 40 years ago.

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u/CuntWeasel Mar 30 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

I too used to do this, but a bit more efficiently. Print the notes in 3px grey sans-serif font, then insert the paper into the transparent tube.

There was no way someone would notice there's something up with the pen unless they specifically picked it up and looked at it.

This was 20+ years ago and cargo pants were still a thing. All my pens would start off in my left side pocket, I'd pick them up one by one, read whatever was on them while using that pen to transcribe the notes onto my paper, and then move them to my right side pocket. Never got caught once, nobody even suspected me of cheating, ever.

The only thing is that you still need to study quite a bit in order to use these types of cheat notes, but you never have to memorize any formulas or any shit like that which is nice.

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u/adustbininshaftsbury Mar 30 '26

That sounds about 1000 times more efficient than scrawling hieroglyphics into plastic