Well, my husband drank beer and played video games while doing one of the hardest programs in the Navy and graduated first in his class. His friends hated him for it, since he'd be calling out answers to them as they studied while he just played games the whole time.
He is getting good grades in his upper level college classes, too, now, even with watching the baby and playing the video games.
Different, I know.
If you are intelligent enough, you can get through undergrad (and law school) even if you are personally dedicated to having close to zero engagement with your classes.
The downside is that when you are actually asked to do things in a professional setting, your skill set is essentially nonexistent.
Possibly. I think that was how I operated in high school. I learned nearly nothing, I feel like.
In his case, when he graduated and started in his new job, he first had to get some qualifications. He got them (while annoying his superiors for being too much of a "know it all"), but then they quickly marked him out to be the next leader of all the guys in charge of handing out qualifications.
He just soaks stuff up and doesn't seem to need to go over it very much in order to remember it.
