> From my experience working at a university (in the foreign language department), I found a number of students who put a large effort into "getting out of work

> From my experience working at a university (in the foreign language department), I found a number of students who put a large effort into "getting out of work". I was astonished at the number who put more effort into avoiding work than it would have taken to get an A. It's funny when that happens, I used to do this in 7th or 8th grade when we were doing home exercises in touch typing. All the typing tasks were given from a textbook that was the same for everyone in the country, for a few years at least. Over 2 years of classes, I had probably spent more time scouring the internet for the solution rather than type it myself. The search was however always more entertaining than the exercise and taught me how to use the web. And I still learned how to touch type.