Most Memorable Homework?

[yoyo13rom]

Got a terrible, long, hard, exciting, life-threatening, challenging or boring experience regarding a certain homework, and need to tell the tale? Here's the place to do it!

I've opted for this big array of "special" homework stories, because not all have the same attribute that makes them worth telling, but all have something unique of their own, worth talking about.

I got this idea while solving my average norm of 70 maths problems a week(I do this because I like it, and I need all the practice I can get for my Senior final exams); this reminded me of the most challenging homework I ever had to do.

Flashback time!

It has 7 and a half years ago, when I was in 5th grade, during the winter holidays. I had only one week of vacation and fun. But all those plans fell apart when my insane, and yet mysteriously beautiful, and always robotic calm maths teacher told my class that for the holidays we had to solve (I'm not kidding here) a 100 (not exercises, wait for it) pages of problems. She wasn't kidding, when school started once again, she marked us all on how much we worked (and to give us a fighting chance), the same day she gave us a test(which had the hardest problems for those 100 pages of pure torture) so she could average the to grades.

I don't know about you guys, but this devil of a woman taught me discipline, hard work, and an good enough quantity of maths, to be able to save my own life if needed(the maths I mean).

I have loads of wicked stories regarding my old maths teacher(like that one time on April's Fools when she joked about a pop quiz, which was in fact a real pop quiz; darn her reverse psychology!), but this one marked the beginning of beautiful frenemy-ship. Oh' and It was the most challenging(and memorable) homework at the time being.

 

[GrinningManiac]

In biology, in years 7 and 9 respectively, we were told to design firstly a creature that lives under the bed, and secondly a creature that lives on mars

I love imagining things and drawing, so I went into 3 pages of illustrated biology concerning by Bedlums (badum tish). They were blue, shaggy and boxy, with small tusks, antennae and a small exoskeleton shell on their back. I had a page concerning biology (including a cutaway diagram), a page concerning behaviour and a page concerning culture and the different tribes of Bedlums under my bed, with defined borders designated by pieces of trash and clothes stashed under there

With the mars thing, it was only one page, but it was damn detailed. Think the Alien from Alien meets a T-rex. Epic

 

[Trifixion]

Well, there was this college professor I had who used to give out homework assignments every week...twenty questions, each of which took at least two hours, if not more, to solve. And these homework problems counted for 20% of the total grade for the course...but when grading said homework problems, the professor would pick two random ones out of the twenty and just grade those.

And it wasn't the same two problems for each student. So if you got, say 17 of the 20 homework problems absolutely 100% correct but didn't get the other three right and he happened to pick two of those latter three as your particular "two random problems"...you guessed it, you got a 0 for the grade. Even though you got 85% of the questions right, you got a 0.

He did the same thing with his tests - you would have 3 hours to work out 10 problems, each of which took the average student at least 1/2 hour to finish. And he didn't give partial credit - if you didn't get exactly the right answer AND show all your work on the problem from beginning to end, you got a 0 for that problem.

This was a class of approximately 150 students. 16 of them passed the class, and 14 of those 16 passed by the skin of their teeth (I was one of those 14). The rest all failed. Yes, that's right, the professor failed 89% of his class...which was a fundamentals of electrical engineering class. Not an advanced graduate level course that's SUPPOSED to be super-challenging, this was a freshman-level Major-introductory course.

The results were reviewed by the college administrators after about 50 students protested, and the professor was let go, by the way.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Eat chocolate, watch TV, go to the park.
Seriously.

 

[Arcticflame]

Easily my assignment for programming I did. It was the major assignment for the HSC. (Final year for High school in NSW, Australia), For software design and development. (basically a programming course).

We needed to program something substantial, and have about a 40 page report as well.

I left it til the last day (as I did with every assignment in my HSC year).

In about 16 hours I wrote 160 pages of code. terrible code, spaghettified to the max, I hadn't actually programmed anything beyond the "LOL BUTTON CHANGES COLOUR" VB crap everyone does. So I basically did it all via the most rudimentary loops ever. If I were to look back on my code now I would probably die of embarassment.

I ended up going to school, handing it in, and sleeping for about a day straight, my mind was that dead.

I got 97% for it.

Apart from that, I did my final exam in english with about 4 hours of sleep and absolutely no study. I stayed up till 2 playing team-fortress 2.

I got 83. Not bad considering I slept for an hour in the exam. (3 hour exam).

 

[Joe Matsuda]

Write a three page essay about MacBeth

I imstead turned in a story I wrote about superheroes

I got a 25/100 on it...I thought I was gonna get a detention lol

 

[Valksy]

In my final year of school at the age of 18 I decided to do a piece of History coursework on Jack the Ripper - I collected loads of data and news paper cuttings and spent an absolutely fantastic day at out national archive in London. To be honest I don't really remember what I was trying to do as my memory has been damaged over the years and it pre-dated handed that kind of work in on computer so I don't have a copy. But I know that I had the most amazing time looking at historical documents, amazing fun.

 

[yoyo13rom]

Eat chocolate, watch TV, go to the park.
Seriously.

Wow, guess that assignment was really hard, and boring
Sorry, couldn't help myself. I like that you're concerned about my social life and stuff(I think), but those problems take me like 1 hour a day to do, so I'm not quite stressing myself.
I do go out at least once a week to play tennis and once to get drunk with friends.

*snip*

But hey, those 16 were now pros, right? I mean I'd sacrifice a hoard just to get a dozen really really bright students, but that's just overachiever me talking here.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Eat chocolate, watch TV, go to the park.
Seriously.

Wow, guess that assignment was really hard, and boring
Sorry, couldn't help myself. I like that you're concerned about my social life and stuff(I think), but those problems take me like 1 hour a day to do, so I'm not quite stressing myself.
I do go out at least once a week to play tennis and once to get drunk with friends.

Oh no. I wasn't saying that to you. That was some homework I was once assigned.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Probably my Creative Writing, you basically do anything you want thats suitiable in English class. I did an auto-biography.

 

[Latinidiot]

when I had to write a review for english, and the only fault the teacher could detect, was a typo.

 

[Banana Phone Man]

I haven't got one piece of memorable homework. To me it all seemed boring or at least not good enough for me to remember it right now. I think the best one was probably two years ago when I had to right a review on movies Jaws and The Island. I like sharing my opinions through with righting and I think I got nearly full marks for both reviews. And hell, I got to watch Jaws so it wasn't all bad.

 

[Ironboot]

We wrote an essay where we had to pick three songs that had had any significance in our lives (cartoon tunes from our childhood etc) or songs that related to our lives in any way... Reliving memories by writing about stuff like my thantophobia (fear of death) and my unstable relationship with my dad almost brought tears to my eyes. I also got the highest grade!

 

[Reboare]

Creative Writing task. We had to write about a room. The location of this room and the story itself were up to us as long as we could effectively describe the room. I went for something scary and finished it pretty early so I asked the teacher if she could mark it. Halfway through reading it she looked up, stared at me and said "This is really creepy!" in a disgusted tone, causing everyone else in the class to start laughing.
It's fair to say I felt both pride and shame.

 

[reg42]

Probably where I started my Science investigation at about 9 and I finished at 12. I was so tired I hardly knew what I was typing. I didn't even edit it afterwards and I got about 55% (which is good for me... I'm not very good at Science).

 

[Davvda]

There is one I remember most. We were set to write a review for a book in english class and my book was shown to be a book called "The Warlock Lord: Sword of Shanara" and I'm not trying to share my opinions too much but it sucked!

It had almost the exact storyline of the Lord of The Rings and the most horrible thing was that the writer knew it and WANTED it to be that way. That kind of pissed me of so instead of a normal review I wrote down everything I hated about this book and got an A for it.

Lovely homework. Worst book.

 

[Pariah87]

My most memorable piece of homework was a piece I never actually did. The best part, to me at least, is how I managed to convince the teacher that it had been handed in, with the help of a friend vouching for me, so she believed she lost it and apologized.

Man I hated homework.