> I made a conscious effort to get through with as little work as possible I did a lot of that, too - and although I was (and probably still am) a bit lazy, th

> I made a conscious effort to get through with as little work as possible I did a lot of that, too - and although I was (and probably still am) a bit lazy, there was more to it than just laziness. I had in some way convinced myself that studying all the time was sort of "cheating" - I was too smart to be doing such mundane things as showing up for class, reading the material and working the exercises. I didn't come to my senses until my senior year of college - and even then, when I took the GRE I actually bought a test-prep book and read it and the whole time I felt like I was going to get "caught" and thrown out of the testing center for being too prepared.