While I was at university for computer science, I often found many "senior" students (both graduate and undergraduate) who were truly astonishingly unversed in

While I was at university for computer science, I often found many "senior" students (both graduate and undergraduate) who were truly astonishingly unversed in the most basic things (I think my "favorite" was the time I did a group project involving a student who had had an internship working in the kernel at Sun the prior summer and he turned in his portion of the project (in C) with code like "[...] char* foo = ""; foo += "bar"; [...]")... ...and yet I never thought to wonder how they managed to keep passing exams.