Undergraduate school really worked for me on two occasions ... once when my Biology professor from Berkeley pointed her finger at me and called me by my last name ... and secondly when they started posting exam scores in graph mode on the university web page, showing high scores, and I beat everyone else's lazy, Facebooking asses in Spanish, American History, Geology, and English.
Rudimentary mathematics, on the other hand ... last in class, cold sweats, nausea.