I hate to break this to you Sigilcreed, but without that "I'm not an idiot diploma" that you are talking about, you end up with a dead end job, and barely scraping by. I'm speaking not only from personal experience, but from the people I see loosing their jobs, or being replaced by those who have said degree. These "cheats" are not only wrong morally, but IF they would even work, they would not be beneficial in the long run.
When looking from a spell casters perspective I give extreme congratulations on finding out such simple ways of getting good marks and it's very intresting how these spells worked out for you.
And of course if you want to look at it from an intellectual perspective it wasnt too smart in thought of the future.
But all in all I am looking at this as a spell, and not just a way to cruise through university, and i think that's pretty cool how you were able to naturally come up with these spells and make them work. Congrats!
I can't really see what you mean Sigil by learning takes place outside and not in. It's as Silver says, the diploma gets you places in the real world, with out it your not going to get too far.
Plus, and this is where it counts most, working to getting that diploma/degree/etc. proves not only to other people but also to yourself that your willing to put the effort in to learn something, and once you've proven you can learn one thing, it is pretty much sure that yaou're bound to learn more from that.
Think of it this way:
If you were cheated in first grade, say you were suppose to read a book out loud or something, and instead you learned to memorize what how others read it. You deprive yourself of the ability to read, which later on impacts on the rest of your life in every aspect.
A more meaningful example(one that relates more towards magick and the alike), if you go around asking for spells, or have others cast spells for you, you deprive yourself of the natural skill of casting/writing spells of your own(which would probably work better then someone elses spell for you). Also by not putting the effort in, you then lack the desire and will to do things such as doing research(which is a big lack these days by many I'm noticing).
So, to make a long story short. Just because it might be the EASIER way to do it, DOES NOT MAKE IT THE BETTER WAY to do it.
Personally, I think thats what is going wrong with todays younger generations. Too many people wanting a quick, right now answer/fix, with out putting the effort in.
For those that would rather get the video version of what I'm talking about, just watch "Idiocracy". If we're not careful we might just end up like them.
Glim i couldnt agree more my generation disgusts me i look around my school and theres only a handful of honest workers everyone else is worried about whos said what about who or hey whats the answer to number 5 its so disturbing that people dont care about there education
I love learning, but only if its topics in which I'm interested like magick and programming. Not topics like history or geography.
Your spells can be useful if you must gain knowledge which you're going to use just once. Example, you must memorize the names of all the guests who will be attending a function.
However, if you need to learn something for a job, you need to learn and practise. It won't help to learn everything like a parrot and you can't apply it in practice.
Well, I suck in explaining things, but Leopard kinda got it. I hate what I'm studying now. He said he likes programming, me too and I have an A without using anything, well I'm also very good in this. I also like history, but I suck in it. Finished high school with A, hard work, a lot of reading :) but when it's up to some useless stuff... come on, if I'm ever going to be engineer I'm going to need tons of stuff that I can't learn in the collage and nearly nothing of what is studied in there. I never judge the people and try to be nice and helpful to everyone, please, don;t judge me. I posted this here mostly to get a comment on how to perfect this "skill" and maybe be useful to guys who are stuck with too much and hard exams
In life there is no easy way, no instant method, no must be fun criteria. You are bound to have to learn things that are dull, boring, and realitively useless. All you can do is make the most of it, get through it, and do what you have to do for the time being. As I said before, if you can get through learning one thing, then it helps you to further learn something else.
If you find a subject you have to learn, for whatever reason, to be boring then try not a cheating method, but rather a self changing method. That is to say, instead of cheat, change your view on the subject.
For example, history and English have always been my weak points(not including foreign lang). I never thought much of learning things that happened in the past or how they could be of any use. Nor did I ever have much ambition to read the many novels/texts required by school/college. However, make it about the history of magick, something tech related, or even nature related, or something I could actually put to use, and you have more of my interest. As for English, give me a novel about magick, wizards and the alike, and I'll read right through it till the end, often times finishing it in a few days time(just look at the list in my profile).
My point is, theres no need for cheating at anything. It doesnt show your true potential, nor can you take pride in getting a good grade, cause lets face it, you didn't do anything.
Things one could do without:
Cheating
Plagerism
Stealing(in any form)
Things one should stride for:
Learning
Studying
Ones Own Research
I just wanted to point out even though some of the stuff you're forced to learn may seem boring and pointless, often there's a good reason your school/university/country force you to learn it.
I'm personally a very sciencey person; I took all science subjects throughout high school and I'm now studying a very science-based course at university. In high school, we're forced to take english in my country. I hated english with a passion and thought I would never need it again. As a result, I only did enough work to scrape the grades I needed. However, throughout my course I've had to write numerous essays and articles. In my first year, I had to basically relearn everything they taught us in high school about effective and persuasive essay writing. I can write half decently now, but my first year would've been much easier if I had actually paid attention in english at high school.
My favorite quote to live by= 'An investment in knowledge pays the best interest'
