This student, who was very pretty, would stay in the classroom long after everyone else had left, and she would write out the text with one of those erasable ballpoint pens, then rub it all out again and write something else, over and over, and then turn to me and say with a twinkle "What do I have to do to get an A in this class?" She did this week after week, and she spent so much time doing it that it would have been just as easy for her to actually do the work correctly and hand it in and get an A. If she'd wanted to date me that was OK too apparently, as long as she went to another TA's class instead of mine for the next semester. We weren't supposed to date the students in our own classes, but it was OK to have a relationship with someone you'd met in class if you waited until the end of the semester and then moved them to another one of the many different classes. Since she was perfectly capable of getting an A in the class just by putting in some effort, it seemed to be a sort of game where she wanted to prove she was attractive enough to score TAs and get given As for "nonacademic effort" as Trish puts it, or something.