Homework is the new black.

Canadian TV station CBC reports Kara Koskowich, 17, made her graduation dress out of 75 pages of math homework—along with some well-placed Post-It notes.

“For me, it’s not a big, spend your money, you have to look this nice, you have to fit into this mold of grad,” the Canadian teen tells the station. Her BFF, Dorothy Graham, wore her own creation, too: a dress made out of plastic bags.

Who said you’d never use what you learned in math class again?

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