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<p>That’s gonna get you into trouble later on… You’d be doing yourself a favor if you started working with other people or really trying to do the problem sets on your own… You’re going to start getting into courses where there aren’t any solutions manuals and things will suddenly become <em>very</em> difficult because you never got to ramp up to the level of difficulty like everyone else did. (We <em>never</em> had solutions manuals… Jeez! Kids these days. 
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<p>Also, perhaps one of the reasons why I had a different experience was because I went to Rice, which is known for being ultra-non-competitive. Not even the Shepherd School music performance students were competitive with one another… Everyone just wants everyone to do well. Also also, there were twelve civil engineering majors in my graduating year, and we were a <em>big</em> class… So since there were so few of us, it was really in our best interests to collaborate.</p>