Cheating in school/university makes you better equipped for being a dev

In ex-Soviet country Universities cheating is like an art form, its something we (at least in my University) used to be proud of. It dawned on me that cheating and copying others work (adapting it to look like your own) is very similar to what i do now: take code samples, solutions from the Stack Overflow etc. and adapt it to look like its the job that i have done. I was pretty good at cheating and i think im pretty good at pretending to be a good Dev. I wonder if anyone else had the same experience