Anyone else do fairly well at School, College, University despite not attending much?

I never went to class..I spent my four years of college in a haze of drugs and alcohol. I didn't do all that well either.

Yes, went to school in LA - I put myself thru school doing commercials and awful episodic work. I was alway going on auditions I went to Peperdine, transferred to USC, and graduated from Loyola Marymount. I never went to class.

I skated through college doing the barest minimum to earn 90% in every class. My school did not have pluses or minuses, so 90% was an A. I graduated with a 4.0 and three majors. Attendance was never taken, but for small seminars and foreign language classes. But the "participation" portion of the course grade was tiny.

Grad school was an entirely different experience, though.

could you pronounce it "yooni"?

OP here, my Mother has my old school reports where some of the Teachers say they'd never met me and others who I'd never seen say that I was 'an active participant in class' I didn't even know who they were.

OP, is you just "passed" your exams that means you got "D" grades?

R6 All A and B grades,, 11 GCSE's, 4 A Levels an S Levels and my Degree, which probably would have been better if I'd turned up to a lecture or two.

I'm R1 's twin

I I should probably add that I earned a great deal of money in 1998/99 as I know how to program in COBOL (Y2K bug). My Mother was a lecturer in it, it's kind of my second language.

I was a star pupil through junior high, even getting into one of those competitive science high schools that are always winning robotics awards, and I never went to school. But that competitive high school made me into a full-fledged high school drop out because they required me to come to class consistently and do a ton of work, and I wasn’t willing or prepared to do so.

OP, a degree from a Red Brick count ? COBOL saved your life?

For me, every year in college got progressively easier. Freshman year I was pulling weekly all-nighters and furiously cramming before every exam. The next year, I learned how to sweet-talk my TAs into passing me based on my papers despite failing the exams. After the core "general education" requirements were done, it was smooth sailing. I had a creative major so it was really whatever I made it out to be as long as I handed something in. I was also a party animal and a full-blown alcoholic by senior year. I don't regret it though because I fucking hated everything about that college, the obliviously wealthy students, and the disgusting city it was in. I only stuck it out until the end because they gave me a full ride and I knew that if I just got the diploma, I could lie about my GPA on my resume. To this, day I'm still "Magna cum Lade with Distinction" and making good money. Suckers!

Laude* that is