Share your college horror stories

[MonkeyGH]

Today I slept through a Final in one of my classes and a fairly important presentation I had to give as part of the class. I was awake about 2 hours before I had to leave for class and decided to take a power nap. I set THREE alarms to make sure I didn't sleep more than an hour. Then I woke up at 5 PM. I hate mono.

Anybody else have any slightly-funny college stories they'd care to share?

 

[Lionsfan]

Well there was that one time I had a 6 page Government paper, a case-study of a country worth 25% of my grade, and it was the night before I hadn't started it yet.....


Also, I'm continuing in the theme of "stuff that's happened today"

 

[lacunadexter]

I once had the easiest class at my university. All of the exams were multiple choice and my professor gave us the questions about a week before each exam. Students were supposed to answer the questions on their own, bring in their own answer key and then fill out the scantron sheet. About three hours before my semester final, I was reviewing my answer key on my computer and we had a power outage. The outage corrupted my file and I had to redo my answer key. I worked like a demon for two and a half hours, but there were 200 questions and I didn't get the last 70-ish done. I took the exam with an incomplete answer key, guessing on the last 70 questions. Towards the end of the class, my professor uncharacteristically asked us all to turn in our answer keys with our names written on them. She saw that I was trying to leave without turning mine in, so I feigned ignorance and shoved mine in the middle of the stack with no name on it. I failed the exam and subsequently the class.

 

[Launcelot111]

Proud to say I only slept through one midterm in all of college (and got to retake it that afternoon)

My favorite thing was the first couple weeks of freshman year, my roommate comes back from somewhere after having half a dozen drinks too many (I haven't had anything that night). After a bit of rambling, he makes a soul shattering revelation that he unequivocably hates all Asian people. He then remembered that he was Asian. It took me the better part of an hour to talk him down from this dark corner of his mind and finally sleep.

 

[Terminate421]

I was told to scare people as Slenderman. Pretty easy considering I am a 6'6" tall monster.

I counted, 67 people in one night.

Oh, you meant scary bad? I got an email telling me about some payment that was due the next day. I had to argue with my dad for a while until finally I figured out it wasn't meant for me.

 

[Cabisco]

I guess Uni is the English version so heres one thing that happened to me:

Got our house broken into whilst we had passed out in the front room in our pants drunk in a pool of our own sick. That robber must of got quite a shock when he ran into the front room to see whats there. I had pants on, my friend did not (edit for 'mericans: by pants I mean boxers, my friend was completely naked). Before we knew what was happening the guy had ran out of the house with the only thing in our hallway, a wrapped up birthday present which turned out to be a tin of chocolates...

So yeah, that happened.

 

[Padwolf]

Where to begin. I had to pull a few allnighters during uni. Once it was because my computer crashed while I was sending my uni work through email. The computer then deleted the email and corrupted the file somehow, when I opened it every page was just blank. I tried to recover it, tried everything I could. It was due in the very next day, it was already 12am. I was panicking. I had to rewrite the whole thing, no small feat considering it was a big sociology investigation with about 4000 words in it and a lot of graphs and things. I managed to get it done, but halfway in the night my vision went mad and I saw everything in pink for a good 15 minutes.

 

[Quaxar]

Well, I have the tendency to start learning far too late so I have to cram the material for a month into two weeks.

And then there's also the fact that I tend to sleep in with my chemistry class and consequently have to prepare the whole subject myself. But I'd call it their fault for starting at stupid 8:10 in the morning.

 

[lRookiel]

Where to begin. I had to pull a few allnighters during uni. Once it was because my computer crashed while I was sending my uni work through email. The computer then deleted the email and corrupted the file somehow, when I opened it every page was just blank. I tried to recover it, tried everything I could. It was due in the very next day, it was already 12am. I was panicking. I had to rewrite the whole thing, no small feat considering it was a big sociology investigation with about 4000 words in it and a lot of graphs and things. I managed to get it done, but halfway in the night my vision went mad and I saw everything in pink for a good 15 minutes.

You have pinkie pie disorder, I prescribe regular sugar doses every 10 minutes.

EDIT: Turns out my friend who told me I had a workshop today was talking shit (Probably hungover and confused with something else) I just checked my email/ebridge and there is no mention of this assessed workshop on the calender/module handbook at all.

 

[MonkeyGH]

Just an update, I guess my story has a happy ending. My instructor let me re-take my final (cuz he's a beast) and I nailed it.

Not half bad.

 

[Fluffythepoo]

Day before german final wed reviewed as much as we could (you cant really cram language) so for class the teacher said shed bring in a bunch of german foods and we could bring in german drinks or foods if we wanted.. so i went and got a case of german beer (enough for everyone) and the teacher even had one. Sitting in class eating cake and having a beer with my teacher all i could think was "im in university now"

 

[DevilWithaHalo]

I was expelled from school because of work requirements and was not able to transfer quite a few credits to a different school (which was merely a different branch of the same co.). As such, I am on the hook for... let's just say a very substantial sum of money.

I'm still considering purposefully defaulting to get the courts involved. They haven't forced the issue just yet, but they haven't lifted a finger to correct the oversight as of yet.

It's been a few years, and I probably still have many years of dealing with this yet to come. My horror story is long from over.

 

[Slenn]

All during my second to last semester of my undergraduate life (Fall semester 2011), I had 5 classes to deal with: Cosmology (700 level class that was so hard, there wasn't a final), Applied Quantum Mechanics (Good stuff, but there was a student/teacher language barrier), Thermostatistics, Intro to Archaeology (Lots of reading assignments), and History of Jazz (A class that was supposedly going to be very fun, but it ended up being the biggest waste of my time.)

In addition to that I had to study for the Physics and General GRE tests so that I could apply to graduate schools. I also had to create a Statement of Purpose for the six schools I applied to. Gathering transcripts, sending them out. Asking for letters of recommendation. And all of this before February 2012 so that I could apply for financial aid.

Studying for multiple finals in past semesters was nothing compared to what I experienced in that semester.

But the nightmare didn't last forever; By the end of the Spring semester in 2012 I passed all my finals, I got a Graduate Acceptance letter from Iowa State U, and I graduated with my B.S. in Physics.

 

[Esotera]

Me and all my housemates had been telling the one guy in our house how awesome Pulp Fiction is and how we couldn't believe he hadn't seen it. We ended up watching it two times in the same month, and both times he walked in right in the middle of the rape scene, so now he refuses to watch it because he thinks it's basically a gay rape fantasy film.

Also my friend realised 15 mins before an assignment was due in that he needed to start and submit it, that was 10% of a module's grade.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Just an update, I guess my story has a happy ending. My instructor let me re-take my final (cuz he's a beast) and I nailed it.

Not half bad.

nice to hear.

OT:

I have a few, one puts me as the hero *shameless bragging*

I had 3 roommates my fresh/soph year (our dorms were the shit) and one of them was a dumbass country hick football player (didn't stop him and me from being best friends, nice guy really) however, he would drink more than any god given person should ever drink, and one night in the winter it got really bad. He took about 4-5 Tylenol PM's and then proceeded to drink a whole fifth of black velvet whiskey, and being the idiot he was, decided to walk out our patio and into the courtyard with no shirt on when it was about 35 degrees out (near 0 degrees for you Celsius folk) and fell over and basically passed out.

Me being the good friend, i dragged his ass back into our living room (he was 210 lbs of muscle while i'm a mere 180 lbs, so picking him up was not an option.) and by that time he was having near breathing problems with the Tylenol mixed with that fifth, so it sounded like his throat hole was closing (not surprising if it did) and he basically started not breathing with his eyes closed, in which one of my other roommates was about to call an ambulance while we were smacking him in the face a bit to try and get him to wake up. (this is probably stupid, but hey, it worked) I realized we weren't getting through to him, so i decided to punch him right in the chest really hard, in which at that point he floundered up with a huge breath, turned to the side and unleashed a huge pile of puke, and then crawled for the couch. At that point my roommate hung up, we cleaned it up and went about the night as usual.

tl;dr my roommate overdosed on medicine/alcohol, I punched him in the chest, he came back to life, puked, and all was well.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I had pants on, my friend did not (edit for 'mericans: by pants I mean boxers, my friend was completely naked).

now just curious (not saying you're right or i'm wrong or anything, just curious) what do you call sweatpants in the UK?

such as these:

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I once had the easiest class at my university. All of the exams were multiple choice and my professor gave us the questions about a week before each exam. Students were supposed to answer the questions on their own, bring in their own answer key and then fill out the scantron sheet. About three hours before my semester final, I was reviewing my answer key on my computer and we had a power outage. The outage corrupted my file and I had to redo my answer key. I worked like a demon for two and a half hours, but there were 200 questions and I didn't get the last 70-ish done. I took the exam with an incomplete answer key, guessing on the last 70 questions. Towards the end of the class, my professor uncharacteristically asked us all to turn in our answer keys with our names written on them. She saw that I was trying to leave without turning mine in, so I feigned ignorance and shoved mine in the middle of the stack with no name on it. I failed the exam and subsequently the class.

wait maybe i'm misunderstanding you..but why did you not turn it in with your name on it?

also, can top your easy class (not trying to out do you or anything..i mean what the hell is the point in seeing who has the easiest class?)

My native american studies class involved in sitting in this lecture hall twice a week, where we could sit on our laptops or whatever else, eat food/drink if we wanted, and he'd lecture up front about the topic at hand (while i couldn't care less for history, he was an amazing speaker, not once did i care to pull out my laptop, he made it so much fun to listen to). We had 3 tests that year, and by tests, i mean bring in snacks for the class and it turns into a buffet party where we share stories and have fun for 2 hours.

as long as you showed up, and by show up i mean attend 80% of the classes, you were getting an A.

 

[Fractral]

I had pants on, my friend did not (edit for 'mericans: by pants I mean boxers, my friend was completely naked).

now just curious (not saying you're right or i'm wrong or anything, just curious) what do you call sweatpants in the UK?

such as these:

Those would probably be tracksuit bottoms, or trackies.
OT: Well, I don't really have any yet, beyond missing a few homeworks. My Stats teacher has it in for me though, she takes every possible opportunity to have a massive go at me. She refuses to mark my work because I had left out a few lines of working, having given a page of correct answers instead (and therefore making me have a screening of a U in stats), and even when I gave in my homework completed, she somehow missed two pages of it, even though they were stapled to the bits she'd marked. She wrote out a half page rant about my awful work habits, and then was more than a bit shocked when I pointed out to her that the work was actually there. She didn't even apologize.
Suffice to say. I'm dropping stats for Mechanics next year.

 

[Harley Q]

In college my housemate and I were doing the same course, Social Science. Something happened to the memory stick and our final assessments weren't on it anymore. She had cut and copied the onto said memory stick so there wasn't even anything on the computer. She said we'd stay up all night working with the aid of blue charge (cheap red bull) and pro plus (little pills of caffeine)

I had never taken pro plus before, so me being a total tool, swallows a lot of pro plus, it was very much a "oh my god you did not just take half a pack in one go.. oh no.." She went to bed around three, psychology report still unfinished, needless to say, I was still awake. I completed mine then finished off hers, when she got up in the morning I was there, sitting perched on the sofa-arm, sweating, twitching. All in all we managed to get the reports in. so, yay.

 

[SquidVicious]

Pretty much my entire college experience. I took some time off between high school and college so when I eventually enrolled there was a bit of an age difference between me and most of the people in my 100 level classes. I honestly could not believe some of the papers I had to read in English 101 and 102, it wasn't helped by nobody else being interested in any of the other classes I was in, including the paralegal ones for my degree. I'm happy I got my degree because I enjoy my job and it pays well enough for me to live quite comfortably, but I will not be going back to college to continue my education, not until the entrance requirements are improved.