I graduated in 2018 from a state school in the USA. No helping other students on assignments. All exams are: closed book(this means no notes or textbooks with

I graduated in 2018 from a state school in the USA. No helping other students on assignments. All exams are: closed book(this means no notes or textbooks with you during the exam) and done with a pencil and a BLANK white sheet of paper. I still managed a 3.75 CS GPA, but we were literally writing syntactically correct C and C++ on blank paper. Why oh why? Early on before I had learned C++ well, I would get marked off something to the tune of -30 for missing a curly brace. No one will miss that IRL when the IDE shows you the visual prompt that it's not there, OR you waste maybe a minute of your life if you forgot it when using VIM... -30 man oh man.