Coolest Homework Assignment?

[blizzaradragon]

Well yesterday I got a math assignment that is due today in my Math 243 class. We need to take three different samples of data, one qualitative and two quantitative, that relates to a hobby we have and make some graphs from the data for statistics. Thanks to this, in order to do my homework I have to play Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 all day and gather data on players I face.

This got me thinking about other cool assignments I've had throughout the years, such as making a Yoshi city in an elementary school class to showcase how civilized life functions or having to run a toy store in class to show economics at work.

So have you guys ever had cool homework assignments? Have they been game related, or just cool in general?

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[Tartarga]

Right now i'm in college majoring in game design and one day for homework we were supposed to play any game and come up with as many ways to improve it as we possibly could. It gave me an excuse to play through my favorite game again and it was the easiest assignment i've ever had to do for school.

Best. Assignment. Ever.

 

[Lionsfan]

I've never had cool homework. Woe is me

 

[BloatedGuppy]

It's been 16 years since I had to do homework. If I ever had a cool assignment, the memory of it has fled entirely.

 

[smearyllama]

Virtual PE is great. All I have to do is a few writing assignments and the occasional test or quiz, and it's all pretty easy.

The best part, though, is that because I need to do an activity log, it gave me an excuse to pick up martial arts again, which is a lot of fun and has gotten me into much better shape than I was in before.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

My university had just started a game design major at the start of my senior year. My roommate and I were both in need of a couple elective credits, so we both took a 200-level "History of Games" course together.

Freaking great class. Part of the curriculum was to experience the evolution of gaming, so the university provided us with copies of a whole bunch of classic games that we were supposed to play as homework and write short essays on.

 

[DANEgerous]

Well as a nerd who live in a top rated school district LOTS, hard to pick. Mouse Trap car may win overall. It involved moving a model car made by you with mouse traps via pulleys and that kind of thing. Mine was awesome it use the first very large rattrap to spin an axle like most of the cars but with some nice hacking experience I made a garage door opener allow for two additional smaller mousetraps as "after burners" to be triggered remotely with the press of a button. having no need to accelerate the car from a dead stop i fired one at a time off once the car slowed down and won our contest with ease nearly doubling the second place winner over all our class periods.

Second comes in a science fair labeled freezing points in about the second grade, this is likely less cool but more significant it came from the time I found liquor in the freezer and was awed by the fact it was not frozen so I let it there overnight still liquid this blew my 11 or so old mind, this cleaner (what my parent told me it was so i would not try drinking it) never froze... even at freezing! Clearly it was magic... or just science so i used it water and 10 other household compounds to see how long it took them to freeze and won my science fair. It was nice i even taught some of the more idiotic adults tier booze will not freeze and after i learned what alcohol actually was other than cleaner... yet still never drank until 22

 

[Scarim Coral]

Well I rememeber in Art class we had to turn our favourite show into cereal form. This was during the rise of Pokemon so my cereal sktech was Pikachu holding a spoon and the brand name was PokePop.
Anyway what I remember most about that homework was when we were showing each other works my classmate was Chef Chocolate Salty Balls in cereal form! XD

 

[Jedoro]

In one of my psychology classes, we got a homework assignment to stand backwards in an elevator, either alone or with other psychology students, and see how people not in our class reacted.

It's pretty hard to keep a straight face when you see the looks people give you.

 

[DANEgerous]

In one of my psychology classes, we got a homework assignment to stand backwards in an elevator, either alone or with other psychology students, and see how people not in our class reacted.

It's pretty hard to keep a straight face when you see the looks people give you.

Yes i must say everyone should do this, it is so simple but such a mindfuck to everyone. You will be asked absurd things like of you are from countries that people simply know exist and nothing other than that, if you are depressed even have them guess if you are real and if you are real perhaps you are a terrorist and yes i now do this all the time and have had people poke me as if i was a figment of their imagination than ask if i had a bomb even had a person say "get off he is going to kill us!" just or standing backward in an elevator silently... yeah absurd and yet hilarious. Best yet is if you walk off still in reverse and ask some relevant question i do this in the mall and tend to ask where something on the floor I got off in is. People may even follow you to find out what is so wrong/intriguing about you due to this unfathomably simple act. I implore you do this the next time you are in any crowed elevator it is hilarious as i do not mind being "odd" and in fact rather like it i will never face the so called "correct" way on an elevator again

 

[Esotera]

For my A2 English Language coursework we had to complete a small research project, so I chose to study how language changes over time. I wanted to get a load of different samples so that it'd actually have some form of validity, so I ended up going to the largest cemetery nearby & photographing then transcribing the text on 150 gravestones.

I then split them up into 50 year periods & counted differences in several features like the inclusion of Latin/quotes, whether someone was referred to by their name or as 'wife of John Smith', and the formality.

The main conclusions I found were that people were a lot posher in what they wrote in 1860-1910, and they also tended to refer to women as wives. Also a load of more quotes, and generally less words on the stone (possibly because it's harder to engrave).

Doesn't really sound fun, but I had a question that I didn't know the answer to, was allowed to go off & design an experiment, and then analysed all the data to get a reasonable answer. Which was actually pretty awesome.

Also, you'd be amazed how many people spell things wrong on gravestones. About 5% of the whole population there had some form of misspelling.