Your most BS homework assignment
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In a grade school math assignment, I had to write an essay about how shower heads work, complete with diagram. Thing is, we didn't learn any of that shit in class. Very few people passed that assignment and it cost me my perfect grade (still got a 99 though).
I would agree with that if it were early high school, and mind maps were being introduced as a skill, since I first learned mind maps in year 6, but actually being MARKED on one in the last year of high school? By year 12, if you can't write an essay, you shouldn't even be there since you would have already failed the School Certificate which we do in tenth grade and which requires essays.SpecklePattern said:
Assignments? Don't get them much anymore. I did always find it commical that a professor stuck me with an F on a midterm where their only criticism they could give me was, "Well, anyone could write this."
Thanks. That's what I was aiming for. If no one could write it, it was either the wrong answer, or so archaically (or just incorrectly) written that it wasn't understood.
Thanks. That's what I was aiming for. If no one could write it, it was either the wrong answer, or so archaically (or just incorrectly) written that it wasn't understood.
I had to write a 2000 word report on cloud computing in under a week.
That might not sound so bad, but the worst part was we never got it back, nor were we even told our marks. So the teacher made us write a 2000 word essay, under threat of being kicked out of the class, for no visible reason. Cloud computing doesn't even feature in the specification!
That might not sound so bad, but the worst part was we never got it back, nor were we even told our marks. So the teacher made us write a 2000 word essay, under threat of being kicked out of the class, for no visible reason. Cloud computing doesn't even feature in the specification!
I have to write five pages on evidence of evolution through the Easter holidays (got two weeks).
Now that's just fine, but I was overseas for almost all of the holidays and the few days I was home I got jetlag and couldn't concentrate on the task.
I told the teacher that I would be overseas the whole holidays and asked for an extension.
She said: "Have fun!"
This teacher is a family friend, might I add.
Now that's just fine, but I was overseas for almost all of the holidays and the few days I was home I got jetlag and couldn't concentrate on the task.
I told the teacher that I would be overseas the whole holidays and asked for an extension.
She said: "Have fun!"
This teacher is a family friend, might I add.
In a college engineering course, I had to write a 20 page lab report about nothing. The entire lab literally consisted of weighing 12 identical springs on a balance.
It was easily the most painfully pointless thing I have ever done, in my entire life.
It was easily the most painfully pointless thing I have ever done, in my entire life.
easy. i had to write a report in GYM once! who the fuck writes reports in gym?BoredDragon said:
My religion teacher. I'm an athiest & i still have to do religion, shes makes us write stuff out like 5 pages of jesuses history, how much good he has done, how you can feel him inside you( stay away from the bathing suit area if you exist jesus!)
and most of it ends in:
I beleive in the lord our god & jesus christ.
I never do my religion. i flunked it out last term, and looks like it's gonna happen again. who cares though? i got straight a's & b's in all my other stuff!
and most of it ends in:
I beleive in the lord our god & jesus christ.
I never do my religion. i flunked it out last term, and looks like it's gonna happen again. who cares though? i got straight a's & b's in all my other stuff!
5000 words. On what?
Explain how themes of duality are explored in Jekyll and Hyde.
Wait...you want me to stretch the basic premise of the book, that Jekyll and Hyde are two sides of the same person, over 5000 words!?
Instead I ended up coming out with a load of crap about opium abuse, the nature of Victorian London, and the fear of science. When really? I think it Ea's just a damn clever horror idea.
I got an A for English literature. Dear god English literature is so screwed.
Explain how themes of duality are explored in Jekyll and Hyde.
Wait...you want me to stretch the basic premise of the book, that Jekyll and Hyde are two sides of the same person, over 5000 words!?
Instead I ended up coming out with a load of crap about opium abuse, the nature of Victorian London, and the fear of science. When really? I think it Ea's just a damn clever horror idea.
I got an A for English literature. Dear god English literature is so screwed.
Reading this thread made me realize I was supposed to read the next few chapters in the book Killer Angels and fill out a booklet on the chapter.
Balls to that, really, it's a holiday.
Balls to that, really, it's a holiday.
Making a costume of a nun so that I could dress up in it the next day. I'm a guy I can't sew and I certainly don't have the physique to pull off the nun look.
The most BS? Oh, that's easy.
You see, we had a couple very retarded Geometry class traditions and one of them was where we had to make these origami shapes. The first ones were somewhat easy like a tetrahedron but later on in the class we had to make much more BS shapes like these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_of_five_octahedra
And let me tell you, some of those shapes took a long time to make and even THEN, it was really easy to screw the later ones up. And what geometry lesson did I learn or what lesson was I supposed to learn? Not a darn bloody thing. Now don't get me wrong when I say what happened next. I am NOT a habitual cheater by a very long shot but, heck, the whole project was so bad, it was one of the only assignments that I ever cheated on in my life. It sucked so bad that I felt that using some of the other shapes that past graduates had made was perfectly justified.
I got caught in the end so I still had to do them and in a more limited amount of time too but man I hated it so much. Don't even get me started on the other fag projects I had to do for that horrible class. >.>
You see, we had a couple very retarded Geometry class traditions and one of them was where we had to make these origami shapes. The first ones were somewhat easy like a tetrahedron but later on in the class we had to make much more BS shapes like these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_of_five_octahedra
And let me tell you, some of those shapes took a long time to make and even THEN, it was really easy to screw the later ones up. And what geometry lesson did I learn or what lesson was I supposed to learn? Not a darn bloody thing. Now don't get me wrong when I say what happened next. I am NOT a habitual cheater by a very long shot but, heck, the whole project was so bad, it was one of the only assignments that I ever cheated on in my life. It sucked so bad that I felt that using some of the other shapes that past graduates had made was perfectly justified.
I got caught in the end so I still had to do them and in a more limited amount of time too but man I hated it so much. Don't even get me started on the other fag projects I had to do for that horrible class. >.>
Oh jesus, I'm doing THAT course, we just haven't started that bullshit yet.deshorty said:
But to the topic at hand, one of my teachers told us, that for homework, we were to watch the Big Bang Theory.
Now, I'm not trying to be offensive to the show or its fans, but I don't see the academic value of this unless I'm trying to learn how to write comedy.
These examples remind me of why I hated college and never went to uni, writing pointless essays, filled with padding about things you can sum up in a paragraph or sentance.
I think I might be crazy or old or something. That's how I write my papers even when I'm not told to do so. Honestly, were I a professor, I would throw out papers that use random web sites as sources without clearing it first. Yes I know one can research on the internet and find out what they need to know. They can also go directly to source material, pull information and draw conclusions themselves. Which is what I always thought was the point of a research paper.BoredDragon said:
A trivial assignment. Simply do anything and you have changed the world. If that isn't grand enough, go dig a shallow hole. Changing the world is remarkably easy. Changing it in a significant way on the other hand is probably a lit more difficult.Hyldago said: