x(y) •∑ = A

I have no idea what the string of symbols I typed in the headline reads, but according to a survey mentioned here, if I include it in an academic paper I increase my chances of getting an "A."

I thought for a minute how this might have improved my indifferent undergraduate GPA, but then I remembered I took only a handful of classes that included math or science and realized they wouldn't have budged the overall figure by that much.