>For me, as for most students, the measurement of what I was learning completely dominated actual learning in college. Well I never had this problem in school.

>For me, as for most students, the measurement of what I was learning completely dominated actual learning in college. Well I never had this problem in school. I remember a high school calculus exam where I got the answer to the derivatives of the fundamental functions wrong (simple memorization - boring!) but I got the delta epsilon part of the test perfect. I got a C- on the exam, but the teacher wrote a comment that always stuck with me: "You understood the most complicated part , as usual!" Same thing in University, I never did homework in groups. I wasn't looking for the answer to the questions on my problem sets, I wanted a unique answer, or a more elegant answer. I would outdo the professors sometimes. One time I saved a ton of busywork on a problem by setting up a homomorphism with another vector space, proof done in 5 steps!