boxing and unboxing, why aren't the outputs both “System.Object”?

Question

I got the following code:

object var3 = 3;
Console.WriteLine(var3.GetType().ToString());
Console.WriteLine(typeof(object).ToString());

The outp

Answer 1

This isn't really about boxing; this is about the behaviour of GetType. It returns the type of the value of the variable, not the type the variable was declared with:

    object var4 = new List();
    Console.WriteLine(var4.GetType().ToString());

won't return System.Object either.