Your most BS homework assignment

[badgersprite]

Bullshit as in unnecessarily pedantic or bullshit as in the assignment was dumb and I felt dumb for having to do it?

In the first category, I couldn't believe I had to source information on a high school physics assignment. She always made us do this, but the most bullshitty example was when my teacher wanted us to get ten academic sources, for how INDUCTION WORKS. Current induction is like the simplest fucking thing, and easy as shit to explain, I could do it in about a paragraph, yet the teacher expected us to not only write an essay on it, but be able to find academic articles that still talk about this shit? When I pointed this out, I actually won the argument, and she said, "Okay, only three sources have to be academic, but you still need ten sources." I think most of the sources I ended up using were about electric stoves. :/

As for an assignment that was so dumb that I felt dumb for having to do it, the example above is close but the homework assignments that always made me feel the stupidest were whenever we had to not do an actual task, but do the process of a task, like hand in a "mind map" or a "flow chart" about the essay you're going to write. WHY? That's just pointless busywork. And, what's more, this was at the end of highschool. I already knew how to write a damn essay, and I was someone who actually payed attention in class and to the syllabus so I always knew exactly what I was going to talk about in any essay. So why they made us go through these waste of time stages, and why they marked us on them, is a complete mystery to me. It's like if they marked you on the order and method you used in putting together pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and not on the finished project of whether you actually solved the damn puzzle.

 

[InnerRebellion]

Well, this easy assignment went from easy to bullshit.

So, it is well known throughout my school that I like to write. When our history teacher assigned us to write a short story, I was done (with 15 pages) in a day. Everyone else barely wrote page over vacation. A girl friend of mine asked me to write hers, and because I can't say no to girls, I did it for her. Then a friend asked, and offered money, so I did his too. Today, we got back to school. In homeroom, the first friend told a few of her friends that I wrote hers for her. Moments after, I was being begged to write theirs, and being offered all sorts of things (money, sexual favors, you name it). As I said, I can't say no to girls, it's just not in my nature. Even as a kid, while my friends feared cooties, I treated girls like queens. With all these girls asking, I didn't want to seem like a dick and say no, so I told them all I'd think about it.

Then, when I got home, I had 27 Facebook messages from people begging me to write theirs. In total, if I wrote all of them, I would have obtained 360 dollars, 3 blowjobs, a handjob, and sex. Yeah. My school is pathetic.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Holiday homework.

Just holiday homework in general, especially considering I should be doing it right now but instead I'm talking about it here.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Holiday homework.

Just holiday homework in general, especially considering I should be doing it right now but instead I'm talking about it here.

This. Exactly this. Like I really SHOULD be doing right now.

 

[SpecklePattern]

That's... actually a pretty easy one. Well, not easy, but certainly not bullshit. And academic sources (Trade sources) are practically swimming with data.

Hell, I would have enjoyed it myself.

Yeah. This is not even bullshit. That is only good that OP is required to do it in even some academic level.

*snip*

Ended up getting a B-, while everyone else got an A+ for basically quoting Kerry.

Well yeah. I had one teacher in the pedagogical studies (I had major in physics, but anyways) who was this kind of dude. I actually wrote one of hes exams as he would like it to be written (I did few of his classes and knew him a bit) so I got the highest grade Total bullshit answers but I knew that he would like to hear it like that. I don't like that teacher as he is not professional in my book, because he is like that :/

 

[willsham45]

Not really had anything bad. Worst was complete a word search or something like that in high school always hated them...always got my dad to do them
Maybe the odd prepare a presentation for tomorrow they could also be annoying.

 

[SpecklePattern]

*snip*

Then, when I got home, I had 27 Facebook messages from people begging me to write theirs. In total, if I wrote all of them, I would have obtained 360 dollars, 3 blowjobs, a handjob, and sex. Yeah. My school is pathetic.

So you only wrote the last 5 mentioned price givers papers?

 

[mysecondlife]

I had to memorize Lady Macbeth soliloquy for High school Sophomore English class.

I kept asking myself ... "why?"

 

[InnerRebellion]

*snip*

Then, when I got home, I had 27 Facebook messages from people begging me to write theirs. In total, if I wrote all of them, I would have obtained 360 dollars, 3 blowjobs, a handjob, and sex. Yeah. My school is pathetic.

So you only wrote the last 5 mentioned price givers papers?

Oh, boy do I wish that were true. They were the only girls I'd even consider looking at (not saying the others were ugly, just these fie appeal to my tastes more). But, as it were, I'm an erotophobic, so no sexy times for me.

 

[SpecklePattern]

... ten academic sources, for how INDUCTION WORKS. ...

Well that is kinda bullshit. I mean every library has limits on how many freaking books the pile on, like this, basic electronics and electromagnetic field stuff.

As for an assignment that was so dumb that I felt dumb for having to do it, the example above is close but the homework assignments that always made me feel the stupidest were whenever we had to not do an actual task, but do the process of a task, like hand in a "mind map" or a "flow chart" about the essay you're going to write. WHY? That's just pointless busywork. And, what's more, this was at the end of highschool. I already knew how to write a damn essay, and I was someone who actually payed attention in class and to the syllabus so I always knew exactly what I was going to talk about in any essay. So why they made us go through these waste of time stages, and why they marked us on them, is a complete mystery to me. It's like if they marked you on the order and method you used in putting together pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and not on the finished project of whether you actually solved the damn puzzle.

Well this is not bullshit. As you are not the entire class and for some this might have been actually the one thing they needed to get their thoughts into the essay making. Mind maps are very good in figuring out stuff when nothing else might not work. Well to be honest, I hate mind maps, but still, for some that might have been the greatest tool they ever got. I know tons of people who actually start many, even work related things, with mind maps.

 

[ultrachicken]

I once had to draw the entire world, free hand, by memory, as an end of the year assessment. I wasn't required to know anything about the countries other than their locations and names. I got an A- or B+, but now I remember nothing from that. What a waste of time.

 

[SD-Fiend]

well the only one I can remember is the one I have in ASL I have to select a song memorize it and the sign it. another one from last year in English was pretty much "write about how much you suck and burden other people"

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Doing papers on pieces of art.

It's a nice looking statue, how the hell do you write three pages of that?

 

[Hyldago]

I'm in 10th grade and i just got an assignment from my social teacher to change the world.

 

[Flailing Escapist]

My senior year of High School there was this BS POS writing class I took just for kicks. But the teacher was really meh. Like really meh. Anyway the final for that class was this stupidly huge assignment. roughly 25 pages 12 font, single spaced worth of short stories in 2 weeks. (And this was with 6 other classes and their finals going on at the same time) Which is much more than I have ever needed to write for any of my english classes a WHOLE semester in college so far. So I somehow managed to crank out all 25 short stories in time, which was more than most of the class, then my stupid teacher gave me an 80%. I had an 79% at the time so all that work and it changed nothing. What a BS BS BS final.

 

[Antidrall]

I remember back when I was a lad that my english teacher in grade twelve ordered us to write an essay on a heroic journey. Since I was one for writing stories, I thought this would be right up my alley. Unfortunately, she told us that it had to be a story that we experienced. Now, I was in grade Twelve. the most heroic thing I had done at that time was beat up a bunch of punks who kicked my dog, and I got punished for that. not exactly the most noble of stories.

She said that we could write about our "Journey to graduation" but that was basically telling us to lie in assignment form. I was livid, and refused to complete said assignment. Fast forward a month, and the teacher said that if I didn't do it, I wouldn't have a good chance at passing. I reluctantly took the assignment sheet and got down to writing bullcrap for her. She handed it back saying "It's not a heroic journey" I ripped the papers out of her hand and wrote about my Journey being the whole writing of the story. it even ended with me giving my thoughts on the assignment I was writing. I refused to take back the essay when she handed it to me. She hated me for that essay. Proudest I've been to get a C-.

 

[New Troll]

My senior year I had a crazy old Psychology professor who loved giving assignments like randomly hugging ten people on the streets and then writing a report based off the reactions you recieved.

Still liked the course due to also having homework like watching Jacob's Ladder. Though I did end up dropping the class before it was done. Meh.

 

[Vykrel]

i thought that this was complete bullshit at the time, and i still do...

in 5th grade, our jerkwad teacher decided to suddenly give us a little homework project: to build a functional cardboard chair that you can sit in without it falling apart.

first of all, that stupid ass project had NOTHING to do with ANYTHING. no math, reading, writing, or anything that would have been relevant to school.

and worse than that, he made us do it over Easter vacation. and that vacation only spanned the weekend, plus friday and monday.

i dunno about the rest of the kids in the class, but i had left town every year to go see my family. my dad had to do my project for me at home. stupidest thing ever, but he made a good chair and got me an A

that teacher was such an ass