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While reading the comments on this Digg article, I found one user who made a very good point (a rare occurrence these days on Digg).

There are a lot of classes where if you just show up, you'll pass. You don't really need to listen, and if you do a bit of work here and there, you'll do just fine. That's the attitude shared by many students, and they decide to do this before even entering the classroom. They've heard from their friends that it's an easy class, easy marks, so they take it for that reason and that reason only.

The problem is that students keep that attitude with them and go to work thinking the same thing: do as little as possible.

So what do I propose? Eliminate all the "bird" courses? Of course not! After all, that is why I'm coming back another year.

Actually, I propose nothing. Don't you know it's not up to me to come up with solution? I just want to complain about things and you can fix it.

But seriously. You usually get a couple courses every year which are fairly tough and a couple that are fairly easy. I tend to get all the hard courses one semester and all the easy ones another.

And, I mean, I'm just guessing, since I wouldn't really know, but the average student probably gets a barely passing grade in the tough courses, maybe a fail occasionally, but a fairly good or sometimes really good grade in the easy ones, right? You know, I never really considered those average students. It's hard for me to imagine anyone getting less than 99%, you know?