There is nothing wrong with believing in hard work. I believe that those who believe things should just come to them without hard work have a misplaced sense of entitlement. A prime example came yesterday. Two of my classmates were incredulous that I had received 100% on one of my major projects and that they had barely passed. Meanwhile I had put in 12 hours of work into the project while theirs had photocopied pencil drawings done in a few hours.