I decided grades were bullshit and rebelled in college because I failed a programming module while people who copied my lab work passed. Even worse was when peo

I decided grades were bullshit and rebelled in college because I failed a programming module while people who copied my lab work passed. Even worse was when people who copied my answers for a quiz got higher marks than me even though our answers were exactly the same (seriously, wtf? was it my handwriting? ok, so I have really bad handwriting). Towards the end, though, I realized that spending extra time in college redoing modules wasn't making any statements other than that I like incurring debt and am possibly retarded. So I gritted my teeth and finished it. Despite knowing that grades are mostly bogus, I found to my surprise that I actually enjoyed that last year in college. If I bothered to learn the course material, it was good for me. If my teammates in the lab hacked the system by letting me do all the work, it was good for me because I learned more. And if they got better grades, it didn't matter, because they're bogus anyway, and I knew I could leave them in the dust when it came to doing real work. What I'm trying to say is that grades are bogus, but you should try to learn the course material in any case because it's good for you.