How's it going everyone Today we have a story time of a iPad kid
who fails his exam and thinks that he's a master hacker.
So he's going to somehow hack his grade to be good.
Let's just say that it blows up and fails miserably and the
ending is hilarious. So you're going to enjoy the
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if you're new and like stories and with that being said, let's
just jump right into it. So we're going to call a
subscriber who submitted this story Will.
And there's this, there's this kid in his class who we're going
to call Ben. And Ben was the iPad kid.
And Ben was the kid who spent all day on his iPad.
He was just playing video games and watching YouTube Shorts
literally all day. And so this story all happened
one day in class where they had a pretty big exam in this iPad.
Like it was a big kind of big cumulative test.
It was like coming towards the end of the fall semester, the OR
the first semester, whatever you want to call it, right?
So it was kind of a big test about everything that was
happening leading up. And the way that they did it is
they had an exam they had so like the last two weeks of
school before we went back for a Christmas break.
The first of the second two weeks, right?
It's something where you take the exam and then there's
another week where it's almost like a chill week in this class.
And partially the reason is the teacher that the teacher did
this is because the teacher realized that in the last week.
So in the second of those two weeks, every other class had an
exam. So he was thinking, why don't I?
Yeah, I'm doing it a week sooner.
So in theory, kids aren't able to study for as long.
But let's be real, I know these kids, everyone's going to cram
it all at the end is 8th grade, right?
No one's like, oh, I'm going to think through this.
So it was actually a very nice thing because you were able to
kind of focus on this exam and then you can almost take a pause
and then focus on all your other exams and presentations and
everything else you have for the other classes.
So it was actually quite nice. Anyways, though, so sure enough,
in the week leading up to the exam, the subscriber Will and
all of his friends were putting in a decent amount of effort
because they knew that this exam was going to be pretty hard.
This was, I mean, it was eighth grade.
It was an algebra exam and it was something algebra one, which
I know a lot of you guys, some of you guys might be scoffing at
that like look, algebra 1 is hard.
I graduated college with a math degree and I could even say like
that stuff can be hard, man. I mean, right now it might not
be that hard for me, but like, especially actually when I was
taking that back in the day, like that was a struggle.
And the thing too is like, you can't really wing it.
And if you can wing it, then maybe you should go get a PhD in
math and solve cancer and save the world.
I don't know, that might be an extrapolation, but everyone in
the class was putting in a decent amount of effort because
they just realized that this was going to be fairly challenging.
However, the iPad kid Ben was not so in the days leading up to
the exam. Like they basically had the
class period every single day leading up to that Friday of the
exam. They had the entire class period
to sit there and study. Like the teacher was super
chill. Not only did he not put the exam
where everyone else's exams were going to be the following week,
he also gave that entire week of like not teaching anything.
Now I'm just going to give you no homework, no materials in
class. You literally have all the time
to study. So you said you better use it
right? I'm not just being the nicest
guy ever while I'm being a pretty nice for a teacher.
I will tell you this exam is hard and definitely warrants you
spending this time at least in class.
And I also recommend that you know what?
You would have spent the 3060 or 90 minutes for homework every
single night. I would recommend you also study
then too, but I'm giving you double the opportunity.
So during that week leading up, you know, will, you know, he
wasn't always the most focused and the teacher kind of let
people do what they want to do. He was like strongly encouraging
the people studied during the class period.
But he also believed a little bit in that kind of personal
accountability, that personal responsibility basically being
like, hey, man, if you're not actually going to take this
seriously, then you're going to get a bad result on the test.
But also, if you've like crushed it and spent so much time on
your homework, maybe you're ready and you can spend this
time for something else. I really don't care.
Do what you want to do. But I am giving you this quite
nice of an opportunity, you know what I'm saying?
So sure enough, you know, Will's, you know, and his
friends are doing, you know, they're trying to study, they're
going through doing whatever. And they look over and they see
this iPad kid Ben, who is on his iPad, quote UN quote, studying
bro literally has his headphones in watching like Roblox Tik Toks
bro. But he is on there giggling with
his big headphones. And the teacher kind of notices
this. But also we'll call him Mr.
Davenport. But remember, Mr. Davenport very
much believes you can do what you want to do.
But also, let's just say that Ben was not like APHD in math.
He was not a math Olympiad. He was not Terrence Tao, but he
was not going to save the world with his mathematical abilities.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
In fact, I got a math degree in college, but I was in low math
in high school. I was not good at math in high
school. I was not in the top.
I was in the bottom class. So I will say that anything is
not anything is possible, but like if you're determined and
maybe I got my math degree partially out of spite of being
like, screw you guys, I can actually do this.
It also turned out to be really cool and interesting and a great
idea. But what I'm trying to say is
like, bro probably should have used the time to study, but
buddy was out there ripping YouTube shorts.
Buddy was on TikTok giggling away at some skippy toilet
nonsense. Bro, like, come on now.
You're given this great opportunity in class to study.
And at one point, like the day before the exam, Will sitting
next to Ben and this is the fourth day in a row of him does
the laughing at YouTube shorts in class and kind of like leans
over. He's like, bro, don't you think
you should be studying? Like I've been told from
everyone that, you know, Mr. Davenport's exams are really
hard. And Ben's like, no, I actually
don't. And Will's like, oh, so you
think you're really good at these?
Like Nope, I don't think I'll be good at all.
He's like, wait, so you're OK getting bad grade?
He's like, no, no, no, no, no. I don't think you understand.
Here's the truth. I've been studying, yes, but
I've not been studying algebra. I'm not a beta male like you.
I've been doing the alpha male thing.
I've been studying hacking. And well, this looks at him
like, bro, you cannot be serious right now.
What do you even mean by that buddy?
Bro actually came out and said that I've been studying hacking.
Like OK, Reddit's Reddit's down the hall to the left, bro.
Like come on now. And so the iPad kid Ben goes on
to say that it doesn't matter what he's going to score on this
exam because he's literally going to any and quote in quote.
By the way, this is a quote hack into the mainframe to change his
grade. If anyone says to you I'm a
hacker, first of all, Discord is down the hall to the left,
buddy. But anyways, if someone says to
you that they're a hacker and then they proceed to say that
they're going to hack into the mainframe, All this means is
that buddy watched the 1st 20 minutes of the Matrix movie and
watched like 1 YouTube video about Python or something.
He's like, Oh my God, I'm a hacker.
Hello world, I did my first for loop.
I'm a hacker buddy. It's like all right, all right,
all right, all right. That's not the case.
And you know, Will is not some master hacker.
Will is not some computer science PhD Bro is not at
Microsoft. He's not a tier one at Microsoft
getting 600 KA year to manage some programmers.
He's not an expert at the cloud code or anything.
But bro, at the end of at the end of the at the end of the
day, he realizes that this iPad kid Ben is completely Larping
Bro. He's not a hacker and he's going
to absolutely have this blow up in his face and there's no
question. But this is also something where
Will has learned that, you know, he, he doesn't dislike Ben.
He doesn't necessarily like him either.
I mean, Ben is saying that he's a beta male and that, you know,
he's actually that or the Ben's a beta male or that Will's a
beta male and Ben is an alpha male because he's hacking and
learning how to hack or whatever.
And he doesn't have to study. He can watch AI slop all day and
laugh. But he's also Will's learned the
truth that some people cannot be saved.
You guys are going to learn this at some point in your life.
You know, it was something where I not that I have like was like
a savior complex. It wasn't even that.
It wasn't even like some people can't be saved.
It's just some people can't be helped and they need to learn in
their own way. You can tell people all the
right things. You can give them all the tools
to succeed. You can try to show them the
light, but there's certain people, their brains are just
wired in a certain way. Or really, the biggest thing is
sometimes you just need perspective.
If there was one thing in this world that I wish I could
purchase that I cannot, that would be perspective.
That would be intuition and experience.
If you when I've experienced things go horribly bad for me,
I've always tried to pay extremely close attention to
what went wrong, why, and I'll never make that mistake again.
And those turn out to be since the errors have not been fatal
so far, and hopefully not forever.
I learn actually I get I get more value out of those
experiences than whatever I lost in the moment, no matter how
large the loss is. This is one of those situations.
Then the iPad kid has become way too confident because he's
watched the Matrix for 5 minutes and went on Reddit once and has
done one for loop in Python or something.
It probably didn't even work. It's like when those memes where
it's like, oh, like here's my CS final.
It's like the calculator app. It's like 1 + 1 equals syntax
error or something. But anyways, he's got to learn
this the hard way. And will, the subscriber
understands this. Sure enough, the next day comes
around. It is the day of the exam.
And you know, you know Will's paying attention.
He's doing all right. It's definitely like he prepared
a lot, but it's one of the one of those things where it's like
there's certain exams. I definitely experienced this
where it's like even with all the preparation in the world,
you go into the exam and you're like, damn, I'm still not ready.
It was one of those where Will knew that he was going to do all
right. And he also knew that he did put
in a good effort and that, you know, if he got an 85 or
something or a Knight like he did well, right, He's going to
do all right. He's not going to be top of the
class and he's OK with that because he put in the effort.
He didn't, you know, sell himself short and just watch
iPad, you know, YouTube shorts all day instead of studying.
So he was fine. But during that exam, he kind of
looked over and Ben was like just kind of like sitting there
drooling, just like scribbling, doing random multiple choice
answers. Ben finished his exam in like 6
minutes because he just went through and went like a BBA A/C
DA, just like boom boom boom, boom boom boom.
And the only thing that like he spent time on were the free
response where he kind of just like put in all these like bro
was not doing math correctly. That's all I'm going to say.
So Ben was the 1st to get up and walk up to the teacher, Mr.
Davenport and hand over his exam.
So I can honestly relate to kind of the the test anxiety of being
first to submit your exam. I was always a fast exam taker.
I wasn't always correct, but it was something where I wasn't
going to sit on a problem or or really anything across the
board, history, math, physics, whatever.
I was not someone who was going to sit on a problem and slowly
go through it and then I figure it out.
It was always something where I either really, I knew it or I
didn't, right? And quite often I'd be very fast
with it and it was just, I tried to pace myself, but I'd be fast
and sometimes I'd do really well.
Sometimes I'd do less than great.
But I would always be one of the first to finish my exam.
And I would always sit there and just wait until someone else
went up first. I'd usually wait till two or
three people went up, then I'd go up and hand up my exam even
if I was done like 10 minutes early.
It's kind of dumb. It was like no real reason
because like who cares? But I, I, it's funny, I have one
of my friends, my actual friend Will in real life had the same
thing happen to him, which is partially why I chose him for
the name of the story. But anyways, Ben within 6
minutes of a 50 minute period went up and handed in his exam.
Mr. Davenport gave him a look and he's like, Ben, Are you sure
you're done? He's like, Yep.
He's like, OK, just so you know, once you hand this in, it's
final. We don't do test corrections for
this final exam while we have in the past for other exams.
So just maybe take a second to review it.
So he hands the test back to, you know, Ben, usually when the
teacher hands back your test, you should go back and do
something different. And it wasn't as if Mr.
Davenport looked at his answers and was like, oh OK, well these
are all wrong. But the teacher has a good
assessment of if you finish it ridiculously early and
especially you're not like the top kid in the class.
Because at the end of the day, Mr. Davenport knows how well Ben
has done on his homework and exams and quizzes and general
comprehension. And it's pretty unlikely that he
has just jumped leagues ahead in his knowledge even given all
this time. Because he also realizes that in
class, Ben was just giggling at YouTube Shorts all day.
But anyways, usually when a teacher does this, they have
some good intuition or context signalling you to go back and do
it again. But he hands the exam to Ben.
He looks at it. Ben goes like kind of like
pretends to speed read through all the answers and within 10
seconds, hands it back. He's like, OK, just double
checked. I'm done.
And Mr. Davenport's like, OK, Once again, Mr. Davenport is
very much a, you will either do well in this class or you will
learn a great lesson of how to do well, or you'll just fail.
That's always an option. You might not learn anything and
was very much a do what you got to do.
I'll give you structure and I'll encourage you, but it's also
your actions are a result of your or your your actions.
Your you know, your actions are an input that determine your
outcome. So if your outcomes are bad and
your actions are bad, then hopefully you can go back and
you know what I'm saying. Anyways, so next Monday rolls
around. The weekend goes by, and Mr.
Davenport's, he's a fast grader. It always kind of annoyed me
when teachers would just, like, take years to grade.
And look, I understand, especially in college, it gets
hard. They're people, too.
They have lives, all that kind of stuff.
I'm like, bro, even if you have multiple classes, like, you
expect me to complete some crazy assignment.
Just graded, bro. So, yeah, next Monday or the
following Monday rolls around and sure enough, at the very
beginning class, Mr. Davenport's like, all right, guys, I have
all your exams. Remember, you know, there was
kind of a range of results here. You know, most of you did, did
very well. But you know, you can always
recover. You know, remember your grade,
yes, your mid semester, your mid year, whatever grades will be
posted, your teacher, your parents will see them.
But you can always recover. I've made it so the second-half
of the year is weighted more heavily so that everyone can
have an opportunity to recover. I love it when teachers do this.
By the way, I remember that there was a, there was a linear
algebra class that I took in college and I ended that class
with an A. But the first exam I had, I
literally got a 40 on it, an exam, by the way, like a big
test. And from that I was like, oh, I
did not study this properly. I did not approach this
properly. I had enough opportunities to
iterate on your problems, right? You're never going to get
everything right in the beginning.
And I'm someone who will fail drastically.
But I've also gotten good at the skill of looking at the mistakes
I've made in the past, making an improvement and having that kind
of iterative process of you get an outcome, you get some results
in the outcome, you change your process, you do it again, you
get results in your outcome, you make changes, you kind of get
you, you do that again and again.
Having a good iterative, iterative, iterative.
Sorry, I've been speaking for too long, Iterative process is
very important for all aspects of life in general.
But anyways, sure enough, he goes around handing back these
exams and let's just say that he gave Mr. Benny boys exam face
down, which always means you're cooked buddy.
Unlucky. So yeah, Will gets his exam
back. He got an 85.
He's actually pretty happy about that.
He was like, I know I didn't crush it, but this is pretty
good. You know, he's talking to his
other boys and they did about the same one of his like boys
who's just like a genius got like a 93 and he's like, dude,
screw you. I know I studied more, but such
is life. My friends, such as life.
Figure out things you're good at, double down on those and try
to get better at the other things.
Whatever. But yeah, he looked over and
like Ben was sweating bullets and he looked over and kind of
glimpse 28 bro got a 28 actually cooked which the only points he
got was because he kind of got lucky and his random guessing
and by yeah, he got lucky and got a 28.
What I mean by that is he randomly guessed for so many of
the, he randomly guessed for every single like like ABCD
multiple choice question and he just happened to get like a
pretty good percentage on those and everything else just like
completely flopped. So sure enough, the teacher is
like, all right, well, you know, I got to go to the bathroom,
like feel free to like review these and you can talk to me
after class. So he gets up, leaves the
classroom, and that's when Ben is just, like, staring at his
paper. And he looks up, and he sees the
computer, The teacher's computer is just sitting there.
And then he has this little smug look on his face.
And he turns over to Will. He's like, remember how I said I
was a hacker? And this doesn't matter?
And Will's like, yeah, I remember you saying that, bro.
And he's like, yeah, watch. So he stands up, and he starts
to walk to the front of the class.
And Will's like, is this kid an idiot?
The answer to that is yes. By the way, if you made it this
far into the video, I want you to comment pants down below.
Like the thing that you wear PANTS.
I'm just just a pair of pants in my floor that I need to wash.
And I'm just looking at that. That's the secret word of the
day. I like seeing the names and
faces of of the people who made it this far into the video as I
do appreciate you guys. Anyways, so he walks up to the
front of the classroom. He goes up to the teacher's
computer. So his version of hacking the
mainframe meant just going on to this guy's computer and trying
to change it. So the computer's left on and
he's just sitting there. He's like typing away.
And Mr. Davenport must have just had to take a piss or something
because he was back in like 2 or 3 minutes.
And he walks into the classroom and Venice is on his computer.
Mr. Davenport doesn't say anything.
He just walks up to him because he's very curious and he's like,
I want to catch this kid in the act or whatever he's doing.
And Ben is like frantically typing away, clicking into
things. And Mr. Davenport is just
standing behind him like a scene in the movie, dude.
And the whole class is just like, not is just went
completely silent 'cause they want to see what happens here
too. And Mr. Davenport's like clears
his throat and Ben like jumps up from his chair like a buddy.
It was like Buddy was playing Five Nights at Freddy's for the
first time and got that, you know, unexpected foxy jump
scare, bro. Like Buddy just jumped out of
his chair. He's like, oh, and Mr. Dragon
Board's like Ben, he's like, I saw your computer was left on,
so I came over here to turn it off to save you power.
He's like, really? Then why is it on?
He's like, I couldn't find the power button.
He's like, OK, but why is it open to my grading sheet?
And he looks like like moves over to his computer.
He's like, it looks like your exam grade has changed on here,
Ben. He's like, oh, I think it was a
glitch when I was trying to turn off your computer.
He's like, Ben, come with me. He's like, well, I didn't do it.
He's like Ben. Ben's like, OK, so basically Ben
went up there, tried to change his grade and apparently he
tried to change his grade to a 100.
Which like bro, you don't think the teacher is going to realize
when he calculates your grades that you went from like a 70 in
the class to a 98 and be like, oh, maybe I inputted something
wrong. Like if you got a 28 and you had
the opportunity to change your exam grade, bro change it to
like a 68 or something so that your total grade doesn't
immediately shoot up and cause suspicion but it also doesn't
tank down. Either way, you shouldn't do
this because it will probably cause suspicion and then the
teacher will be like, oh, I must have inputted this wrong and
change it back to what it's supposed to be.
But this is the lesson that like buddy's not a master hacker.
And then like just just study for your exams.
Don't think, oh, I'm just going to cheat my way out out of this.
It usually doesn't work and you should not OK, it doesn't work.
Just don't just actually study for the exam.
Guys, come on.