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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Dulcinea on December 08, 2008, 02:04:07 am
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I don't usually post stuff found on the web, but hey- if you ever thought one of your term papers was bad, you'll feel much better after reading this. (Some parts are really pushing it, but hey!)
http://cvk.qubes.org/images/funny/best_paper_ever.jpg
Anyway, in light of spicing up the topic- what are some of your funny essay/term paper stories? Desperate, last minute ones? Or anything just out of the ordinary?
My worst essay on an exam was probably when my teacher knowingly said to the class as they were leaving (the day before) to "make sure to study Bach!" When we got to the exam, the essay was about Handel. The only thing I could remember was that Handel wrote The Messiah, and that he went blind in a carriage accident. So I wrote my whole essay on how going blind in a carriage accident inspired Handel to write the Messiah. I did better than my friend, though- who just drew a picture of Handel on a bicycle because she couldn't remember anything at all.
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yeah this is probably fake you know and it's also OLD AS FUCK.
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that's pretty obviously a joke paper.
this is a pretty bad topic, dude. try to spruce it up a little bit or i'm gonna lock it. (there's really nothing to discuss!)
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what are you doing?
WHAT ARE YOU DONIG?
AlSO, that wasCompletely and also fake.
9/10 nice graphics.
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Hahahah that was a good read.
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Hm...didn't know it was old. Thought I'd share it so other people who are in exams can maybe have a laugh. Sorry you guys are so offended. (Also, yes, I Know it's a joke...but thank you for pointing that out...)
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I say we should talk about our worst papers or tests or midterms ever
A few weeks ago I had a linear algebra midterm that i totally left thinking "MAN I AT LEAST GOT A 70 I DID MODERATLY WELL ENOUGH TO BE JUST ABOVE GOVERNMENT STANDARD"
i got a 52 :(.....
then 2 weeks ago I had my second linear algebra midterm and left it thinking "MAN IM SO AWESOME I JUST GOT A 90 TOTALLY ON THAT MIDTERM"
i got it back a few days ago and I got a 75%...(the trend is i get whatever i thought i got minus 20%)
eidT:
dragonx saves the topic i think
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dulcinea i noticed you posted a lot of pretty bad topics in the last half hour. why?
EDIT: If you knew it was a joke than why didn't you put it in p9/11
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Well...I posted a lot of posts in the last half hour because I'm taking a break from studying, and my mind is bursting with Ignatieff and Adorno. Honestly, though, my topics were: philosophical films, nostalgic gaming cartoons, and an article/tutorial I'd written (and spent a lot of time on). So I'm not sure why you think those are bad? Unless you mean they're things you're not interested in, in which case that's your own opinion and you have no obligation to reply.
edit: (re: your edit) Sorry, I've been lurking here a while, but I haven't really been active until recently and I'm still confused by some of the forums here. If there's a more appropriate forum then I don't mind if a mod moves the topic :).
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dulcinea i noticed you posted a lot of pretty bad topics in the last half hour. why?
EDIT: If you knew it was a joke than why didn't you put it in p9/11
shut up get on topic:
talk about your worst tests ever
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Well...I posted a lot of posts in the last half hour because I'm taking a break from studying, and my mind is bursting with Ignatieff and Adorno. Honestly, though, my topics were: philosophical films, nostalgic gaming cartoons, and an article/tutorial I'd written (and spent a lot of time on). So I'm not sure why you think those are bad? Unless you mean they're things you're not interested in, in which case that's your own opinion and you have no obligation to reply.
edit: (re: your edit) Sorry, I've been lurking here a while, but I haven't really been active until recently and I'm still confused by some of the forums here. If there's a more appropriate forum then I don't mind if a mod moves the topic :).
nah the article looks pretty interesting i just haven't gotten around to reading it. i was talking about the zelda cartoon one where you were basically "I just watched these again : Discuss."
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At GCSE (end of compulsory education) I wrote 12 pages of joke essay answers for a religious studies exam.
I got an E, it owned.
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I once took a Biochemistry in-course in my first year in university. There were supposed to be four in-courses constituting 40% of the final grade, 10% each. The lecturer was a very mean and disgusting man named Cockburn. He said he would be giving back the papers and calling out the mark when handing them out. I wasn't getting more than 1% seriously, maybe 0%. I didn't study at all or go any lectures.
So I skipped the next week of class. I went to the following week. He hadn't corrected the papers yet so I skipped that week. I missed a notice for the next in-course and did badly in that too (maybe 2%). Didn't want to get my paper back or get called out. So I just didn't go to class. And I said fuck it and didn't go for the final either. I passed the course the following year, though. They replaced Cockburn.
nah the article looks pretty interesting i just haven't gotten around to reading it. i was talking about the zelda cartoon one where you were basically "I just watched these again : Discuss."
Don't make me deck ya, buddy
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Ha! Reading that I actually thought someone did go that far in stupidity.
Well, my worst paper regrettably was something I took LOTS of time writing. My teacher loves my writing and I always score 96 or above, nothing less. That was until I did a paper I took my dear sweet time on. It was about the different types of art methods and we had to cite artists and all that, I ended p with a 60 something on it and everyone was surprised which made me feel even worse. What was even more awful was that I had all the blueprints to the answer sitting in front of my face when I wrote it so all the content of the paper's terms where there for me to use... but somehow the professor didn't like it, she even wrote "what happened!?" at the top of my paper T.T;;;
But yeah, that was by far the worst and the most work I put in a paper...irony?
Also I got a big Spanish exam at 8:00 a.m but I have little willpower to study it, I'll probably do fair but spanish is so boring to me :/
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I wish my worst was 60something. I hate when people say they did so awful on an exam and then it's like... 60something or 70. What a gyp.
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I bet that paper is fake
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One time a history teacher had us write an essay or something about what changed before and after military dictatorship and alienation amongst the youth and I wrote something really stupid (but true) like "I don't know because I wasn't alive at the time and those old men just like predending they have power but nothing changes" and drew swastikas and jew stars and money signs and communist signs on it and then he commented how there were childish people who drew crap on it (he didn't cite my name but I knew it was me he was talking about).
Oh yes and earlier today my mom was complaining about people who try to kill themselves by taking a lot of pills (because a girl tried to do that) and how that makes her angry (she's a nurse by the way) and how eating caustic soda doesn't kill you it just gives you esophageal stenosis and you won't be able to eat and will have to ingest food parenterally instead etc. So don't do that guys you're better off jumping in the front of a train.
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Its quite a while ago, in a written programming exam, at one part we had to write down some code. A friend of mine just didn't want to bother with it and instead he drew an elephant. The teacher put a big question mark next to it, in red ink. He uses a scan of this as a MSN messenger display picture to this day....
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Worst I got was a 50. In 10th grade we had to write about what kind of food America was and explain why/ explain what the ingredients represented. I couldn't think of a food, so I said America was like a blender, and that different races were different foods and they got blended together.
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I wish my worst was 60something. I hate when people say they did so awful on an exam and then it's like... 60something or 70. What a gyp.
maybe 'cause those are bad marks? i know for example in my program you need to maintain at least a 75% average or else you're kicked out/downgraded to a shit program. for me, that's the verge of passing. and if you want to go to a professional/graduate school afterwards, you need good marks.
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I say we should talk about our worst papers or tests or midterms ever
A few weeks ago I had a linear algebra midterm that i totally left thinking "MAN I AT LEAST GOT A 70 I DID MODERATLY WELL ENOUGH TO BE JUST ABOVE GOVERNMENT STANDARD"
i got a 52 :(.....
then 2 weeks ago I had my second linear algebra midterm and left it thinking "MAN IM SO AWESOME I JUST GOT A 90 TOTALLY ON THAT MIDTERM"
i got it back a few days ago and I got a 75%...(the trend is i get whatever i thought i got minus 20%)
eidT:
dragonx saves the topic i think
Man, I left one of my MEDIA STUDIES exam thinking "Shit I did pretty well in that, 70-80 maybe" and got it back with a fuckin' 32.6%. Ridiculous! Thankfully I didn't need the score in the end (thank you, Australian education system), but even so, fuck. Not a good feeling!
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I had to write this essay for my SAT a couple years ago and I made up a bunch of Dostoyevsky quotes and even a book. I can't remember what the topic of the essay was, I think it was something to do with what the ultimate evil is or something, but I got a 9/10 on it so definitely make up Dostoyevsky quotes on your SAT.
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i just recently turned in a lab report for a thermodynamics/fluid class which isn't like OBVIOUSLY FUNNY or anything but it's hilarious to me because I had a suspicion that they don't actually read the content of the paper (important!!!) but on the formatting and layout and shit.
I
- blatantly made up data (we were supposed to do calculations for three rates of water flow, I copy/pasted the same calculation three times, didn't even bother to change any variable names or locations)
- copied excel graphs which in no way matched my calculations,
- wrote "Hey so do you guys actually read this or what" in the middle of a paragraph
- Pulled numbers for an extensive, critical section out of my ass, said how the numbers were unacceptable
- Didn't even include a fake calculation for this section
- Goddammit it sort of depresses me how little effort I put into this on a very broad scale
I got a fucking 98. Because my references were listed after the appendices. I literally had to stop myself multiple times from emailing the TA and writing "What the unholy fuck is wrong with you that paper deserves a 25 at best you retarded shithead", but I did not.
If anyone actually wants to see the graded version of this paper (really only funny if you have some background in technical lab reports) I can upl.
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I once made an essay about walking for English Class in high school, I got a 78 on it as I can recall. It didn't matter what the topic was about, but I still couldn't believe it.
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How can this make us feel any better if it's obviously a joke? I mean if you know something is a joke, it doesn't matter since when you write papers you are actually trying.
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i just recently turned in a lab report for a thermodynamics/fluid class which isn't like OBVIOUSLY FUNNY or anything but it's hilarious to me because I had a suspicion that they don't actually read the content of the paper (important!!!) but on the formatting and layout and shit.
I
- blatantly made up data (we were supposed to do calculations for three rates of water flow, I copy/pasted the same calculation three times, didn't even bother to change any variable names or locations)
- copied excel graphs which in no way matched my calculations,
- wrote "Hey so do you guys actually read this or what" in the middle of a paragraph
- Pulled numbers for an extensive, critical section out of my ass, said how the numbers were unacceptable
- Didn't even include a fake calculation for this section
- Goddammit it sort of depresses me how little effort I put into this on a very broad scale
I got a fucking 98. Because my references were listed after the appendices. I literally had to stop myself multiple times from emailing the TA and writing "What the unholy fuck is wrong with you that paper deserves a 25 at best you retarded shithead", but I did not.
If anyone actually wants to see the graded version of this paper (really only funny if you have some background in technical lab reports) I can upl.
I would honestly love to see this!
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There are many different kinds of books. There are books that we enjoy and books that we despise. This past year we were given the book Twilight for the summer reading. This book has many great qualities such as it keeps the readers interested, it allows readers to start a series, and it helps readers expand their vocabulary.
First of all, in the novel Twilight, one of the main characters, Edward is intriguing simply because he is a vampire. Fascinatingly, Edward along with his coven do not drink human blood, they unusually drink animal blood. Also, the readers stay interested because readers can relate to the main characters. Readers relate because many of the readers have been in love like the main characters and if the readers have not been love most of them believe there is such a love out there. This keeps the readers at the edge of their seat. Not only does the book talk about the interesting subject of love it also talking about vampires. The author, Stephanie Meyers, tells us about the vampires which is mostly unlike the typical stories we tend to hear. In the book vampires don’t sleep, they don’t even have to breathe, and they sparkle like diamonds in the sun. Because Meyers writes the book this way, it leaves readers hooked.
When somebody finds a good book they like that continues through a series, they tend to finish the series. This is the case with the Twilight series, when people read this first book, Twilight, they are addicted and must read more. Many people that I know that have read the book Twilight have continued on to read the entire series. This is because they get sucked in to the entire story line such as how in the end of Twilight, Edward drags Bella to prom so that she has a great time as a human, before he eventually turns her into a vampire as he promised. The book also is recognized as the #1 New York Times Bestseller. This is also a reason for many people to start the series because with the title, there are high expectations that should be fulfilled. Also, reading this series would encourage the readers to expand their reading. This is because the series is so entertaining that it will motivate readers.
Lastly, Twilight demonstrates great vocabulary. Words such as obsidian, audiovisual, and bushed are throughout the entire book. This will force readers to look up these and other words that they do not understand. This will enhance their vocabulary which will be beneficial for many of the students that plan on taking the ACT’s and SAT’s. Not only does this benefit the college bound kids, it benefits anybody that speaks to people. It is proven that people with a larger vocabulary have better conversational skills. Also, good vocabulary skills lead to a better writer. Writing from somebody who has a poor vocabulary has constant repetition of the same words. However, when reading a paper written by someone with a comprehensive vocabulary is much more vibrant and interesting.
In the end, after reading Twilight I have come to conclude that the book is fascinating, it gets people reading, and enhances vocabulary. Very seldom do administrators pick such a great book for our summer reading. The administrators have obviously come to their senses.
Essay I had to review for an English 103 class.
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Essay I had to review for an English 103 class.
im assuming this is a college class what kind of college assigns twilight for reading
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worst paper i've ever written shit hmmm
well i would probably go with this paper i wrote for psychopathology a few weeks ago. i stayed up until 6 doing nothing, but i wrote i guess 4 pages that were just rephrased class notes and supported it with really vague details from the memoir i didn't finish. and then i woke up 10 minutes before class so i didn't have any time to write a conclusion, and i got an a- because i didn't look up citations for class material. i'm pretty sure something in there constitutes plagiarism.
in terms of most stressful that was last week when i wrote my 10 page 1.5 spaced research paper in a night, having done most of the research the night before
but this will soon be defeated by my 8-10 page research paper which i will research tomorrow and write on tuesday
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Also man, I had to write a 50 page senior paper in order to graduate and I did it all the night before. I wrote like 60 pages in a single night. It was fucking garbage man, but I seriously doubt anyone would read an entire 60 page paper, especially since the entire senior class had to submit one. I don't even know what grade I got on it. I handed it in and forgot about it entirely.
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You were bsing the paper right?
Words such as obsidian, audiovisual, and bushed are throughout the entire book.
what great vocab. this will help me when on the writing portion of the SAT when they have this as an option. [What ][/What]
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im assuming this is a college class what kind of college assigns twilight for reading
the whole part at the end threw me off. if you're talking about the end, it's possible that they read it in high school or something, or that it's plagiarized. we were allowed to analyze a book of our choosing.
You were bsing the paper right?
what great vocab. this will help me when on the writing portion of the SAT when they have this as an option. [What vocabulary do you find most interesting in the book, "Twilight"?]
I just had to check for spelling, punctuation, proper use of grammar. It was someone else's paper. I'd never write crap like that unless I was bsing.
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You were bsing the paper right?
Ahaha, no, I knew my shit and I did months of research. It was just written so poorly. I think I wrote non-stop for like 12 hours.
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What's wrong with Twilight? I'm not saying it's good(I have never read it), but it seems to be a love or hate kind of book so....can someone fill me in here.
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the whole part at the end threw me off. if you're talking about the end, it's possible that they read it in high school or something, or that it's plagiarized. we were allowed to analyze a book of our choosing.
at the beginning of the paper it says it was assigned to them to read last summer ie the summer before entering college
unless they mean the summer before their senior year but still what the fuck
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What's wrong with Twilight? I'm not saying it's good(I have never read it), but it seems to be a love or hate kind of book so....can someone fill me in here.
it has less academic merit than harry potter
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i just recently turned in a lab report for a thermodynamics/fluid class which isn't like OBVIOUSLY FUNNY or anything but it's hilarious to me because I had a suspicion that they don't actually read the content of the paper (important!!!) but on the formatting and layout and shit.
I
- blatantly made up data (we were supposed to do calculations for three rates of water flow, I copy/pasted the same calculation three times, didn't even bother to change any variable names or locations)
- copied excel graphs which in no way matched my calculations,
- wrote "Hey so do you guys actually read this or what" in the middle of a paragraph
- Pulled numbers for an extensive, critical section out of my ass, said how the numbers were unacceptable
- Didn't even include a fake calculation for this section
- Goddammit it sort of depresses me how little effort I put into this on a very broad scale
I got a fucking 98. Because my references were listed after the appendices. I literally had to stop myself multiple times from emailing the TA and writing "What the unholy fuck is wrong with you that paper deserves a 25 at best you retarded shithead", but I did not.
If anyone actually wants to see the graded version of this paper (really only funny if you have some background in technical lab reports) I can upl.
seconding this, i wanna see it too. i've had horrible TAs that mark really hard, so it'd be hilarious to see how you get away with it
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I wrote a pretty solid 6 page paper about gold farming. (I guess it doesn't really fit in this topic because it's not a bad paper, but it's still an unusual topic, I guess)
We never got marks back for those papers (it was the final project), but judging from my overall mark in the class (B) compared to what I was expecting, I must've got a pretty good mark on it.
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chef in what universe does a highschool require you to write more than postdocs seeking thesis approval.
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I completely bullshitted a term paper I had to do this quarter
I cited no sources, and what sources I put in my works cited were either not used at all or completely falsified (I interviewed Lars and some azn dude on irc and used them as sources lol) and basically the whole paper was a sham. but I will more than likely get a good grade on it because I spent all last year writing biology papers and I know what they're looking for
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no seriously im calling bullshit. 60 pages how do you even TURN THAT IN. you need to go to kinkos or have an industrial grade stapler. unless you emailed it i guess. 60 pages on a single subject in 12 hours?
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chef in what universe does a highschool require you to write more than postdocs seeking thesis approval.
mine :rolleyes: :shrug:
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heh most I've ever pushed myself to do was maybe 14-15 pages in one day I think. Granted I actually put a lot of effort into that and it was for a legit research paper and I bet I could sit down and pump 50+ pages of bs pretty easily. once you get rollin man you just crank that shit out
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he specifically said it wasnt bs
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Man, all of my papers are half-assed papers written like, the day before they are due and I still crank out As. Hooray for lenient teachers!
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yeah i have heard of this happening at lots of private schools but it always seemed really pointless to me when 1/5 of students, if that, will actually put a lot of time into it. but i don't know, it's probably useful for later papers.
actually once you do all the research and get started it's not that hard to write a lot of pages really quickly. i've just never had to research to that extent ever.
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chef in what universe does a highschool require you to write more than postdocs seeking thesis approval.
http://saes.org/home/index.asp
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ALSO if you search, it will be online i think. it was about norse mythology, but i can't remember what it was called. they put all of the senior papers and senior projects online. i did a powerpoint with it too, but the powerpoint was way before so i don't know if it will be there.
and yeah i went to kinkos at 7:00 am. or maybe later i don't remember when it opens. but i went as early as it opened!
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you went to private school, no wonder. I was seriously like "bullshit a public school will require students to write 40 pages they'd all fail" but yeah private schools do horrible shit like that.
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the curriculum pdf says 15 pages, is this something completely unrelated or did a whole bunch of parents complain and manage to get it shortened a shitload
man private schools. i guess they are worth it.
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i don't know, it could be different. we had to interview someone, and that had to be a certain page length too. in fact, i think that was much harder than this, because we had months and months to research the 50 page paper. we basically didn't have history class last semester so we could work on the paper. maybe it is that, or maybe they did shorten it. one guy wrote something like 180 pages.
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I wrote a paper in 10th grade about Michael jackson and it was entitled "THE PHANTOM MENACE" and it was about him being a total piece of shit and weird motherfucker. It was pretty funny I guess and I wrote it a few months before he fucked that second kid.
I remember I had to write a rough draft for it and it was a pretty creepy story about some post apocalyptic world where all of the major cities were deserted because of michael jackson clones running around everywhere and then a michael jackson army breakdancing through the streeets of newyork. What was really funny about it though was that we had to switch papers and some cute dainty girl ended up reading mine out loud and it was fucking hilarious. I had alot of fun in that class.
It was basically WHY HE IS A MENACE TO SOCIETY and I had examples from him fucking a kid and holding his own ruggedly out of a balcony window
I got an A+ and I had to read it out loud.
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I also wrote a paper about poltergeists and other kinds of ghosts (ENDO PLASMIC BEINGS) in 7th grade and it was completely serious I also got an A for that I'm pretty sure
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Also man, I had to write a 50 page senior paper in order to graduate and I did it all the night before. I wrote like 60 pages in a single night. It was fucking garbage man, but I seriously doubt anyone would read an entire 60 page paper, especially since the entire senior class had to submit one. I don't even know what grade I got on it. I handed it in and forgot about it entirely.
for some reason, i want to read this
Also once I wrote a paper about Ninja's. I think it was somehow related to vietnam. Like, Ninja's = Vietcong or something. Got an A.
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The term paper was pretty funny, but it still got 61% which is odd.
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I must do a 12 page paper for the end of the day. I have 3.5 pages done and I am procrastinating right now. Gonna be one hell of a ride.
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There's this religious studies class my old middle school has to give to get extra subsidies. There were some good teachers that made it remotely bearable, but my class was stuck with this closet evangelist. I remember we had to write an essay about god (of all people), and when I finally managed to claw my way out of the dark pit of teenage depression and wrote an essay titled "god is a woolen sweater, a rhetorical dialogue" the bastard didn't accept it and almost failed me. I did bloody research for that one.
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Heh want to talk about bad papers I once did a paper on the Spartacist rebellion in 1919 and didn't even mention Rosa Luxembourg talk about egg on the face. :sweat:
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Back in Uni, did a business statistics course and I seriously got an 8% on the test.. because the prof was a fucking dolt and gave negative marks for showing your work and putting an incorrect answer... You're better off not even putting anything down if you're not 100%(!!!) sure about the answer.. I got it back and I couldn't believe it because out of any course, anywhere, anytime, that was my worst mark ever by like 50%... Mainly because the prof was a huge idiot that nobody liked and 3/4 of the class ended up dropping, including me... And the poor guys who stayed... Well lets just say that 3/4 of the people who stayed failed the course miserably.
Took it that spring with another prof... Guess what I got? A+... That's right. She taught it a million times better than that mofo ever did and she didn't give negative marks for shit... If you show your work and you're close to the right answer, you'll at least get a 4/5, not a -1. I couldn't believe how simple the concepts in the course really was if you had someone who could actually teach... How he got to be a prof? My guess is because he makes the Uni loads of money by continually failing people for being such a shitty prof and making them enroll over again..
Goes to show how much of a dumbass he really was... The bastard thought he could fail me huh? Well... I graduated last spring and am working professionally now so if I ever saw him again, I'd probably swear up a storm at him and deck his ass with a straight right..
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Back in Uni, did a business statistics course and I seriously got an 8% on the test.. because the prof was a fucking dolt and gave negative marks for showing your work and putting an incorrect answer... You're better off not even putting anything down if you're not 100%(!!!) sure about the answer.. I got it back and I couldn't believe it because out of any course, anywhere, anytime, that was my worst mark ever by like 50%... Mainly because the prof was a huge idiot that nobody liked and 3/4 of the class ended up dropping, including me... And the poor guys who stayed... Well lets just say that 3/4 of the people who stayed failed the course miserably.
Took it that spring with another prof... Guess what I got? A+... That's right. She taught it a million times better than that mofo ever did and she didn't give negative marks for shit... If you show your work and you're close to the right answer, you'll at least get a 4/5, not a -1. I couldn't believe how simple the concepts in the course really was if you had someone who could actually teach... How he got to be a prof? My guess is because he makes the Uni loads of money by continually failing people for being such a shitty prof and making them enroll over again..
Goes to show how much of a dumbass he really was... The bastard thought he could fail me huh? Well... I graduated last spring and am working professionally now so if I ever saw him again, I'd probably swear up a storm at him and deck his ass with a straight right..
That would sure show him!
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Back in Uni, did a business statistics course and I seriously got an 8% on the test.. because the prof was a fucking dolt and gave negative marks for showing your work and putting an incorrect answer... You're better off not even putting anything down if you're not 100%(!!!) sure about the answer.. I got it back and I couldn't believe it because out of any course, anywhere, anytime, that was my worst mark ever by like 50%... Mainly because the prof was a huge idiot that nobody liked and 3/4 of the class ended up dropping, including me... And the poor guys who stayed... Well lets just say that 3/4 of the people who stayed failed the course miserably.
Took it that spring with another prof... Guess what I got? A+... That's right. She taught it a million times better than that mofo ever did and she didn't give negative marks for shit... If you show your work and you're close to the right answer, you'll at least get a 4/5, not a -1. I couldn't believe how simple the concepts in the course really was if you had someone who could actually teach... How he got to be a prof? My guess is because he makes the Uni loads of money by continually failing people for being such a shitty prof and making them enroll over again..
Goes to show how much of a dumbass he really was... The bastard thought he could fail me huh? Well... I graduated last spring and am working professionally now so if I ever saw him again, I'd probably swear up a storm at him and deck his ass with a straight right..
you're dumb.
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last year all my friends came to my college and hung out with for my birthday. We stayed up to about 4 am and then in 4 hours had a final for English. we had to write a paper based on a prompt on a movie we saw. it was the worst paper I ever wrote and I ended it with "and that's the way the cookie crumbles..."
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HEY YOU!
YEAH YOU!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU *knocks out an old man* now...im a hero.
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man i write all my papers the night before they're due. in high school I'd start them at midnight. freshman year I would start around 2am. now this year I'm not starting till 4. and that's the way the cookie crumbles....
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man i write all my papers the night before they're due. in high school I'd start them at midnight. freshman year I would start around 2am. now this year I'm not starting till 4. and that's the way the cookie crumbles....
Procrastination. Rampant among gamers for some reason.
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yeah man I procrastinate a lot, but I make myself feel bad if i do, and end up getting shti done
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Procrastination. Rampant among gamers for some reason.
Through extensive research, I have determined this very reason.
It's because we fucking play video games instead of doing our work.
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6 People in my class today got caught plagirising their essays. Some had bought them off the internet. Mr Wilson was absolutely fuming (especially as, on his way into school, he'd just written off his car).
I also know 2 different pairs of friends who, completely independant of each other, had contests to see who could the most Snakes on a Plane references into their essays.
And those are my essay stories.
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on the topic of worst tests (even though this is probably hte best answer on a test i've ever heard of...):
a friend of mine was a calc teaching assistant and said one exam had a question along the longs of
sinx / n = ??
and someone put
sin x / n = six
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on the topic of worst tests (even though this is probably hte best answer on a test i've ever heard of...):
a friend of mine was a calc teaching assistant and said one exam had a question along the longs of
sinx / n = ??
and someone put
sin x / n = six
seriously doubt it
this is actually a pretty old math joke that I've heard a few times so. i don't think you're making it up but I also don't believe your friend.
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When I was in 4th grade, for a book report, I did a report on a Calvin and Hobbes tpb that I found laying around. Back then I thought it was "Carvin and Hobbies". I ended up just bullshitting the whole thing and told the teacher it was a book with words.
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seriously doubt it
this is actually a pretty old math joke that I've heard a few times so. i don't think you're making it up but I also don't believe your friend.
it could be a lie, but it happened 3 years ago (yes i have a good memory apparently) and i did vaguely remember seeing a question like that on the exam. either way, i thought it was pretty clever.
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seriously doubt it
this is actually a pretty old math joke that I've heard a few times so. i don't think you're making it up but I also don't believe your friend.
that would just mean someone would be more likely to put that as the answer, maybe it was some kid trying to be funny (and the question being on the test was a coincidence, or a joke by the teacher as well)
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I ended up just bullshitting the whole thing and told the teacher it was a book with words.
I'd do the same thing
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i did my senior project on AI and robotics. I did the whole thing over a weekend and it was awesome because the essay opened with a quote from the simpsons, and ended with a different quote from the simpsons.
in college we had to write our final english paper on something in our field (mine is programming), and the english teach didnt know anything about computers, so it was incredibly easy to bullshit my way through it. It was like 6 pages, I did it in a few hours, and contained less than 5% facts.
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i did my senior project on AI and robotics. I did the whole thing over a weekend and it was awesome because the essay opened with a quote from the simpsons, and ended with a different quote from the simpsons.
I did an essay on nuclear power and I did that also. I got 100% on it, ironically.
As for personal experience with bad essays, I don't really have any. The worst mark I've ever gotten on an essay is 86% or so.
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nerd
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i did my senior project on AI and robotics. I did the whole thing over a weekend and it was awesome because the essay opened with a quote from the simpsons, and ended with a different quote from the simpsons.
in college we had to write our final english paper on something in our field (mine is programming), and the english teach didnt know anything about computers, so it was incredibly easy to bullshit my way through it. It was like 6 pages, I did it in a few hours, and contained less than 5% facts.
Yeah well I wrote a paper responding to Wendell Barry's "Why I Am Not Going to Buy A Computer" (anyone that hasn't read this should, it's the stupidest thing ever and shows how uneducated he is and this is taking into account the fact that it was written in the early 90s and he still thought computers were word processors), and I took Barry's list of reasons why computers aren't really technology and countered every single one of them. One of them was "it should be repairable by a person of ordinary intelligence, provided that he or she has the necessary tools." I wrote about how all you needed in most cases to repair a computer was a screwdriver and the necessary replacement parts if something needs to be replaced (and if it's software base you don't need tools), and that someone of ordinary intelligence could easily learn how to do it by reading a book about it, and my teacher counted off by saying "this is not true" to the screwdriver part. He knew at the time that I was a CS major, and yet just wrote it off as being not true, despite having said he knows nothing about computers. He is basically doing the same thing Wendell Barry was. Unfortunately it was the end of the year and I didn't have time to go argue with him about it, but it was really depressing.
But, earlier that year I wrote another paper on the article (we'd do a few different articles and write a short essay about each, and then at the end of the section we'd write a bigger article about one of them, so I wrote about this twice) where I wrote it as if I was a defense attorney defending my computer against Wendell Barry's false accusations. Worst paper ever but it was hilarious to write.
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HEY YOU!
YEAH YOU!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU *knocks out an old man* now...im a hero.
That would be pretty awesome... revolutionary level
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i never wrote a bad essay.....
i must be talented or something
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I got a shit grade on a paper I just submitted. I wrote about how if kids act violent it's not because of video games or movies. I think my teacher disagreed with me :-/
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Maybe you just didn't support your arguments well and didn't mention about the incidents when it did.