Thanks for your help, folks. I feel terrible realizing that this student pulled my leg for several weeks. Actually, the student is a 40+ year old woman who's eager to get into 3d - and I have given her special attention and hours of spare time assistance, just because the demography of our industry has very few 40+ y/o women. I'd love to see more females get into 3D and I do my best to help them out. Getting fooled over like this really ruins my enthusiasm as a teacher. Instead of 100% concentrating on teaching and inspiring, I now also have to be on the lookout for frauds.

Strangely enough, I can understand her apparent desperation, being an unemployed immigrant with a bleak work opportunity forecast, perhaps with children to support and an absolute necessity to graduate. It's no excuse, but its an explanation and I try not to be judgmental. After all, we're all human, and I cannot say that in some equally desperate situation I wouldn't try something equally stupid.