[throwawayjava]

> So apparently giving up and having the wrong answers (or no answers at all) is what professors would prefer. Cool :)

It's much easier to correct known unknowns than unknown unknowns.

The best advice I was ever given as a student was "Pretend like you'll get an automatic A on your report card and treat your grades as a feedback mechanism for figuring out what you do and do not understand. Just focus on learning." As a simple corollary, cheating is kinda silly.

[aphextron]

>It's much easier to correct known unknowns than unknown unknowns.

This assumes you'll get any kind of personalized feedback and instruction in a lower division maths course. Good luck with that at a public university.