Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.

School exams are memory tests, in real-world no one is going to stop you from referring a book to solve a problem.

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

No amount of exams will prepare you for life.

I’m assuming you have a reason behind this irrational need to conform to this institution." (Eric)

A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.