Your most BS homework assignment
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Last year in 10th grade, my English teacher made us take little notes on the books we were reading. We wrote them on sticky notes and stuck them in the book. She wanted like 1-2 per page. We read roughly 8 books.
And that, my friends, is the story of how I got my first D in an English class.
And that, my friends, is the story of how I got my first D in an English class.
Let's see... there was a review packet everyone needed to fill out just a few days before the AP exam in my AP U.S. History class. The packet contained over 100 terms, around 30 "short answer" questions, and several essay questions. The terms had to be defined in at least a paragraph's length. So, 130+ paragraphs, in a few days, and we couldn't type it. Hand-written was required.
My hand cramped half the time I tried to do anything with it for a few days after that torturous review. I still got a 3 on the the test. Haha, I R not 2 smartie, I guess. I studied far less for my AP Art History exam and got a 4 on it. Interesting, how that happened.
A funny (to me) essay/paper related story: We had a month to write a 10 page (double spaced) in Times New Roman 12 font research paper on whatever we wanted, as long as it involved new media and had academic sources. Due to my depression (I blame some supposed mental illness that plagues me, it's not my fault! It can't be my fault!), I waited until the morning it was due to start. I only reached 6 and a half pages in the 6 hours of early morning before class started.
So, I get it back expecting a D or maybe a C if I was lucky. After all, I came up 4 pages short of the minimum and didn't spell/grammar check besides being wary as I typed, plus the automatic spell-checker upon finishing it. I literally printed it 3 minutes after BS-ing the last 3 paragraphs in 30 minutes; then I printed it and ran to class.
I got a "Well done" note and a 98/100. It made me laugh out loud in my car, as I dreaded my score too much to check it in the classroom. I have always been good at BS-ing papers, but this takes the cake. My professor must secretly really like me, feel sorry for me or just rush-read my paper. It probably helped that he didn't know anything about my topic, violent video games.
Well, that was long and crappy. If you've read this far: Achievement Unlocked!: You're Bored: Be bored enough to read this post. +10 gamer cheese puffs.
My hand cramped half the time I tried to do anything with it for a few days after that torturous review. I still got a 3 on the the test. Haha, I R not 2 smartie, I guess. I studied far less for my AP Art History exam and got a 4 on it. Interesting, how that happened.
A funny (to me) essay/paper related story: We had a month to write a 10 page (double spaced) in Times New Roman 12 font research paper on whatever we wanted, as long as it involved new media and had academic sources. Due to my depression (I blame some supposed mental illness that plagues me, it's not my fault! It can't be my fault!), I waited until the morning it was due to start. I only reached 6 and a half pages in the 6 hours of early morning before class started.
So, I get it back expecting a D or maybe a C if I was lucky. After all, I came up 4 pages short of the minimum and didn't spell/grammar check besides being wary as I typed, plus the automatic spell-checker upon finishing it. I literally printed it 3 minutes after BS-ing the last 3 paragraphs in 30 minutes; then I printed it and ran to class.
I got a "Well done" note and a 98/100. It made me laugh out loud in my car, as I dreaded my score too much to check it in the classroom. I have always been good at BS-ing papers, but this takes the cake. My professor must secretly really like me, feel sorry for me or just rush-read my paper. It probably helped that he didn't know anything about my topic, violent video games.
Well, that was long and crappy. If you've read this far: Achievement Unlocked!: You're Bored: Be bored enough to read this post. +10 gamer cheese puffs.
Welcome to tertiary education. This is par for the course.BoredDragon said:
My last assessment required at least 5 journal articles and 3 text book references. It was worth 5%.
Deal with it.
edit: Oh yeah, my mum walked out the night before my final physics exam for year 12. Shit happens, you deal with it.
Some huge paper for civics class.
After I calculated that it would only make up 1% of my total grade (seriously), I handed it in half finished.
After I calculated that it would only make up 1% of my total grade (seriously), I handed it in half finished.
Now imagine that but having to do it from scratch in a 3D program. All the brainbleach in the world could ever make me forget the horror...Flailing Escapist said:
OT: My multimedia teacher got a call from the people that run our city's website...thing...and they want us to make the videos for it. My group got firework safety laws, but right now it's illegal to own fireworks so we can't get any footage of how to safely work with them.
I think I have the exact same assignment. Civic action plan? It's due tomorrow and the teacher hasn't been here for the past three weeks... so I started it today. Ugh.Hyldago said:
My Spanish class had a lot of tests that consisted of memorizing the names of the provinces of the Spanish-speaking country we were studying. No reference to this outside of the tests. I got an A on every single test, and promptly forgot everything I had memorized after each one.