--- title: Student Plays Kanye West on Record Player During His Test description: A resourceful student found a way to play Kanye West while taking a test, despite not being able to bring in his cell phone. canonical: https://time.com/5237838/student-listens-to-kanye-west-on-record-player-during-test/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-12T16:09:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:05.098Z og:title: Student Plays Kanye West on Record Player During His Test og:description: Talk about dedication og:url: https://time.com/5237838/student-listens-to-kanye-west-on-record-player-during-test/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4974703b6fd2210f/69892d7b97cdff80b06b4eee/kid-plays-kanye-west-on-record-player-during-test.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Kanye West Yeezy Season 3 - Runway og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Student Plays Kanye West on Record Player During His Test twitter:description: Talk about dedication twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4974703b6fd2210f/69892d7b97cdff80b06b4eee/kid-plays-kanye-west-on-record-player-during-test.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Resourceful Student Will Stop at Nothing to Listen to His Rap Music During His Test > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Yeezy Season 3) NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 11: Kanye West performs during Kanye West Yeezy Season 3 on February 11, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Yeezy Season 3) Dimitrios Kambouris—Getty Images for Yeezy Season 3  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 12, 2018 4:09 PM UTC An ingenious student went to great lengths to ensure that he would be able to have [the right soundtrack](http://time.com/collection-post/3822917/kanye-west/) to listen to while taking his physics midterm. Math teacher Eric Saueracker, who [teaches at Hudson’s Bay High School in Washington](https://www.ratemyteachers.com/eric-saueracker/2412068-t), shared via Twitter the intrepid tale of one of his students who went so far as to bring in a record player so he could listen to [Kanye West](http://time.com/4411055/kanye-west-taylor-swift-kim-kardashian-feud/) while taking his exam. Saueracker had previously told students that they weren’t allowed to bring in cell phones during the test since they could be used to cheat, so his student opted to bring in a record player so he could listen to West’s classic album, _The College Dropout_ while working on his midterm. > [](https://twitter.com/esaueracker/status/984119583391956992) It turns out that the student’s resourcefulness paid off; according to Saueracker, his student aced the test while listening to Kanye West. > [](https://twitter.com/esaueracker/status/984253634425700353) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5237838/student-listens-to-kanye-west-on-record-player-during-test/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5237838/student-listens-to-kanye-west-on-record-player-during-test/"},"headline":"Resourceful Student Will Stop at Nothing to Listen to His Rap Music During His Test","datePublished":"2018-04-12T16:09:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:05.098Z","description":"Talk about dedication","url":"https://time.com/5237838/student-listens-to-kanye-west-on-record-player-during-test/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4974703b6fd2210f/69892d7b97cdff80b06b4eee/kid-plays-kanye-west-on-record-player-during-test.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4974703b6fd2210f/69892d7b97cdff80b06b4eee/kid-plays-kanye-west-on-record-player-during-test.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Kanye West Yeezy Season 3 - Runway","caption":"Kanye West Yeezy Season 3 - Runway","creditText":"Dimitrios Kambouris—Getty Images for Yeezy Season 3","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5237838/student-listens-to-kanye-west-on-record-player-during-test/","name":"Resourceful Student Will Stop at Nothing to Listen to His Rap Music During His Test"}}]}] ```