r/todayilearned • u/Ill_Definition8074 • 10h ago
TIL In 2019 a Japanese University student studying ninja history turned in an essay written in invisible ink. The words only became visible when the paper was heated over a gas stove. Her professor without even revealing the whole essay gave her an A.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49996166788
u/jinhush 9h ago
In 11th grade I had a project where we were supposed to write a journal from the POV of a World War 2 soldier. I took an older notebook I had and wrote a few entries. I then soaked the notebook in tea for a little while to stain it and had my brother's redneck friend shoot it with his rifle after I put a fake blood pack on the front. I got an A without my teacher reading the entries.
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u/ProtonPizza 7h ago
they’d shut down the school district if you did that now.
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u/theassassintherapist 2h ago
I made an "authentic"-looking treasure map in middle school by drawing the map on construction paper, then microwaving it carefully, a few seconds at a time, until it looks burnt and faded. Got top grades with that.
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u/Ichier 10h ago
Yeah, my professors didn't do hard shit to grade work that clearly had a lot of work put in either. One of my classmates in college had to write a paragraph of what it would be like to be a french peasant so they wrote it in french and got a 100%, the professor isn't checking that stuff.
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u/EmperorHans 9h ago
I took a Latin class in high school where we had a big art project at the end of the semester. I have no visual art capacity, so he let me write a play. Historic Roman stock characters, Roman style five acts, a speech in dactylic hexameter, the whole works. It was super long and I was very proud of it.
He flipped through the pages to make sure they weren't all blank and gave me a 100.
Mixed feelings.
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u/SUPERSAMMICH6996 9h ago
On one hand, I understand the amount of time it would take to carefully read through something like that, 120 times or so (assuming 30 students per class and four classes per semester). On the other hand... my mom is a teacher, and over-the-top work like that is one of the few joys she has left in regards to teaching.
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u/MentionsRampartByEnd 8h ago
It's true that teachers often appreciate creativity. But that workload can be overwhelming. Balancing grading with appreciating effort is a tough line to walk for educators.
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u/somesketchykid 7h ago
I like to "gush" and blow people up with positivity and praise on the spot. Borderline intense praise for very focused, short period of time (maybe 1-3 minutes of gush as to not over do it) whenever somebody goes above and beyond to show just how happy it makes me when it happens.
If you're genuine and make sure to do it selectively, I've had great success with this strategy. The only caveat is that it is really hard to do when you're having a bad day and unable to get out of whatever rut the day has brought.
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u/JonatasA 6h ago
I'm still waiting for me teacher to give me back my essay. I appreciated it more than her and would like to read it again!
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u/hwf0712 7h ago
Yeah like that's really gotta suck as the student and also be hard for the teacher, but also like... it kinda feels like it could've been avoided with some foresight. Maybe instead just have had the student write one act fully, and bullet point out the rest so the gist of the other 4 acts can be gotten in 10 minutes.
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u/ffddb1d9a7 6h ago
The teacher is already making up an unplanned project for a single student. They're not going to have a rubric for it, guaranteed.
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u/CloudcraftGames 9h ago
dactylic hexameter. Just seeing those words gives me horrible flashbacks. Simply being able to do that at all is an accomplishment in my book.
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u/natFromBobsBurgers 8h ago
Poetry tickles me endlessly. That is my worst trait.
Dads like me joke in a common way. Horribly. HAH HAH!
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u/CloudcraftGames 7h ago
poetry is one thing. Having to translate poetry with a complex structure where analyzing the structure is essential to the translation is another issue entirely.
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u/Captain_MasonM 9h ago
In high school we had a project to “creatively” summarize the plot and themes of a book of our choice. We could use whatever outlet we wanted as long as it was good, comprehensive work. I read The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton and, given my growing interest in coding at the time, decided to make a point and click game as my project. I had to learn a ton of new code over the few weeks I worked on it.
When I submitted it, the teacher gave me a 100%, so I was thrilled. I asked her what she thought of it and she said she didn’t really get video games so she asked the PE teacher to play it instead and just tell her what he thought, lmao
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u/CrosseyedZebra 6h ago
PE teacher still waiting patiently for Terminal Man 2 OP
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u/Captain_MasonM 6h ago
He’ll never get it, I only code statistical models now. Getting older is a bummer sometimes
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u/AWanderingAfar 9h ago
Did something similar. Had an English Lit project. I wrote a journal from the perspective of a character in Beowùlf. Made it look authentic asf, singed edges, "dyed" the paper with coffee and crinkled it, wrote it in old English. Very underwhelming reaction from teacher, 100%. I do remember how proud of me my mom was. She was so impressed, made me feel real good.
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u/IRefuseToPickAName 8h ago
Same style but with a civil war journal. Shot it with my BB gun and dripped some red food coloring around the holes, the last entry was about coming home
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u/GoldenPuma1 9h ago
I'd read (or at least a fair part depending on length) it if you still have it
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u/Its_the_other_tj 8h ago
Double edged sword depending on the teacher. I did a research paper for AP English, once upon a time, on something we might want to do once we graduate. I picked civil engineering and got really into the project. The paper was a 5 page minimum and I went to 12. The teacher gave me a 65 on it with no notes. When I asked her about the grade she just said she "Knew I didn't write it." I still had the massive stack of books that I'd cited and checked out from the school library, photographs of me on the bridge that my project was about, and it was obviously written in my style. That project was a quarter of our total grade, and I'd spent over a month on it, so needless to say I was pissed.
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u/Gyddanar 6h ago
Ffs. That annoys the hell out of me. If you want to accuse a student of plagiarism, then you absolutely need to show your work and be ready to explain yourself/eat your words.
At the worst case scenario, where I thought they'd cheated, but couldn't prove it, I'd ask them to show their working and be prepared to give the mark earned if they could back it up.
Sorry that happened :(
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u/royalsanguinius 9h ago
Meanwhile when I took latin in college we had to recite a passage from freakin Cicero in front of the whole class as part of our final grade and then the next semester we had to recite a passage from the Aeneid in the professor’s office and she definitely paid very close attention both times. Granted I got a B in both of those classes but like my anxiety did not enjoy those assignments 😂
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u/Teh_Compass 9h ago
write a paragraph of what it would be like to be a french peasant
For some reason this popped into my head
"Google French peasant"
Holy hell 💯
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u/srslybr0 9h ago
would a french peasant know how to write, though? i have a feeling they were probably illiterate.
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u/diffyqgirl 9h ago edited 9h ago
When I was in 9th grade, we read the Odyssey as many 9th graders do, and every week we had to turn in a short essay (like a couple paragraphs) analysing one of the characters. One week in a fit of boredom and creativity I instead submitted several pages of homeric verse about why I thought Telemachus sucked. It rhymed, it had meter, it had homeric similes, I was quite proud of it.
The teacher gave me a B because I forgot one of the rubric items for the assignment that we were supposed to talk about for the character. I was so upset. Completely killed my motivation to try in that class.
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u/DeviantDragon 9h ago
I think it's kind of a reasonable lesson though. Make sure you're delivering on the core requirements of the assignment and then you can add your own spin on things. It's how the real world can be.
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u/Bootziscool 8h ago
Probably gave you a B cause Telemacus already has it so hard he didn't need a 9th grader shitting on him on top of it.
Jk dude fuck that teacher
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u/cannibalisticapple 8h ago
To counter all the lazy professor stories: I took a comic class where the teacher was incredibly passionate and enthusiastic, and had equally enthusiastic TAs. He was clear that either he or one of his TA's would read them, and he hung onto the final comics... Or at least most of them.
He told us one semester a student brought in a zombie comic in a ziploc bag that smelled awful. Turns out for "realism", he'd smeared the final comic with various fluids. Yes, it's exactly what you're thinking.
Teacher read it himself with gloves to spare the TA's and graded it same as any other comic. Don't remember if he said what he did with the comic, but to read that is true commitment.
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u/kuschelig69 7h ago
Turns out for "realism", he'd smeared the final comic with various fluids. Yes, it's exactly what you're thinking.
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u/howzit- 9h ago
In highschool an English teacher had us do book reports of course. They only needed to be one and a half pages so we did multiple per semester. Had a classmate who didn't really take school seriously and didn't do his once. So he wrote "This book was good because yeah..." In 72pt or so and it was one and a half pages. He got a D for it lol.
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u/Lebanon_Baloney 9h ago
Would the French peasant even be literate? Why turn in a paper at all!
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u/Giraffed7 8h ago
There is actually an urban legend in France somewhat related to to that. In highschool, most student have philosophy in their last year and so have a philosophy exam for the Baccalauréat. This year, one of the subject was "What is audacity ?". One student just wrote "This.", handed its paper and got top marks. Obviously it is not accurate, as the point of this exam is to do a dissertation, but it is fun nonetheless
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u/RubendeBursa 8h ago
I once did that by writing it in my native language then getting it into google translator, because the assignment was to be about 2 people that lived in Hellenic kingdoms, in the Hellenic age. The teacher said some vague threats, here and there, like he was going to take it to one of his college friends to have it translated to see if there were any swear words, like how dare I disrespect him. Real slimey guy.
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u/Find_A_Reason 9h ago
Vous dites la vérité. Il est bien trop difficile de traduire un paragraphe pour un devoir pour supposer que l’étudiant est autre chose qu’exemplaire.
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u/Landlubber77 10h ago
In 9th grade I purchased a paper on Glaciers from a friend who had some kind on Encarta disc with a bunch of research papers on it, and handed it in for Earth Science class. I get the paper back with an A+ on it and my friend who sold it to me said "I can guarantee that Mr. Name Redacted graded that paper without reading it." I asked how he knew and he said "because I added the N-word right in the middle of it."
Mr. Name Redacted was a very nice black man. My "friend" moved with his family to Connecticut that summer and I haven't spoken to him since. Where are you Mike L.?!
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u/AcceptableOwl9 9h ago
I grew up in Connecticut and knew a kid in 10th grade named Mike L.
Coincidence?
Yes. Definitely.
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u/Landlubber77 9h ago
Was his middle name Kevin?
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u/AcceptableOwl9 9h ago
Oh… My God…
No way.
I can’t believe it.
His middle name totally wasn’t Kevin!
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u/Landlubber77 9h ago
Big world.
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u/Rulebookboy1234567 9h ago
This was so not-tense. I was not on the edge of my seat.
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u/GOULFYBUTT 7h ago
A highschool friend of mine did this in art class. We had weekly art history papers to write and hand in and everyone hated them. They were mandatory, annoying, and everyone always got 90% or higher. People started to suspect that our teacher didn't even read the papers which only made people hate doing them more. My friend decided to hand in one week's paper, but with the word "pickle" sprinkled into random spots throughout the paper. He got 100%.
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u/celbertin 4h ago
a classmate did this with the word "potato", he was sure the teacher didn't read the assignments. Got an A, zero comment from the teacher.
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u/arkangelic 9h ago
Why did you friend move away with Mr Name Redacted's family?
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u/Kyle_Lowrys_Bidet 8h ago
So you didn’t read it before turning it in?
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u/Landlubber77 7h ago
The first paragraph. Up to that point it was legitimate glacier shit and very few racial slurs.
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u/NuancedFlow 6h ago
Very few racial slurs is a funny concept. It's either zero or too many for me.
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u/Obscene_farmer 6h ago
What a hard decision to make if you're caught. Claim the slur, or admit you bought the paper (and didn't even proofread!)?
Probably depends on the community...
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u/tringle1 8h ago edited 2h ago
In high school physics, we were studying momentum and inertia and my teacher hated fake physics in movies, so he assigned us a single question answer: There is a rare breed of flying bear of x kg flying towards you and a friend at y velocity. You have 6 bullets of z kg and w velocity that you fire. Would the bear still crush you?
One of the students answered “no. I would shoot my friendand the bear would stop to eat them” and got a 100 on the test while the rest of us suckers showed our work
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u/CuzRacecar 9h ago edited 8h ago
Teachers, professors and TA's are so shocked by even the slightest bit of effort you can spend much less net effort overall and blow them away.
In college I was taking a poli Sci class and a good portion of it was on pollical machines and political bosses from the 20's and 30's. Think Boardwalk empire.
For the main course paper i chose some random boss from Tennessee that sounded cool, headed over to the library and the librarian pointed me to THE book on the guy (that's the 1st hack).
It was like 300 pages though. So i googled the book to uh, sort of short cut things and find a summary but instead found the guy who wrote it still alive working for a library IN Tennessee. Call the library, asked from him, no problem. Lied and said I was writing an honors thesis on the historical figure and his book has been a major part of that. Asked if i could record him then for about 1/2 hour this guy basically wrote my essay. He referenced different parts of the book several times like i had read it, i just said 'uh huh". I asked like 3 questions and just let him cook.
In my biblio instead of citing the book I cited the actual author in my own interview with him, which sounds next level but meant I did zero reading. Half the essay was quotes pulled from this guy single space taking up room on a page. I'd tell you who the political boss was, but I never even read anything about him. I had a 1/2hr invested in the topic. Have no idea.
A+ (with a nice note from the Prof.)
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u/BakuretsuGirl16 8h ago
Lol that poor author must have been stoked that kids were interested in their research and documentation, hopefully they never realized
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u/JonatasA 6h ago
They were happy, isn't that what matters?
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u/AbhishMuk 6h ago
They’d probably still be happy even if they knew what OP did. Most people would’ve never read or learnt his/her work, at least OP did. Researchers love speaking about their work.
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u/GEAX 8h ago
Your "low effort" sounds alarmingly close to field research lol not exactly, but still
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u/BeautifulType 5h ago
Low effort: fucking interview the author of the biography and ask the questions that everyone wonders…where he hid the money
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u/OfficerDougEiffel 7h ago edited 6h ago
You want to hear some bullshit?
I took a class on white collar crime. The professor (a cop) wanted us to interview someone who had worked in the field of white collar crime.
Every student interviewed their neighbor or uncle - whatever local cop they could find who had arrested someone for check fraud or whatever.
I interviewed convicted felon Sam Antar - former CFO of Crazy Eddie's. He had helped to orchestrate one of the largest and most well-known cases of fraud ever before becoming a forensic accountant and consulting for various corporations and law enforcement agencies including the FBI.
It was a rock solid paper. We talked about the why and how of white collar crime. We talked about his current job as a forensic accountant. We even talked about how he squared his faith in Judaism with his actions at the time. The end of the paper was this incredible line... We had been talking about remorse and whether white collar criminals tended to feel it. Sammy claimed that he did. So, I asked him how I could trust that his remorse was genuine, or how I could trust anything he said to me since he was a known conman and fraudster. His response was something like, "You can't. Trust is how you get taken. But you also have to, because life without trust will make you crazy. Maybe Reagan said it best - trust but verify."
Professor gave me a C. Said he was really hoping I would interview a police officer or law enforcement official.
Bro, I went so far above and beyond for this undergrad paper in an elective course and got a C.
Doesn't matter. Class was irrelevant to my career and it was so worth it for the opportunity. Such a cool interview. I give credit to Mr. Antar for offering up his time to some kid for free too. He was super open and gracious.
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u/Kittenathedisco 6h ago
Oh man, I can only imagine how his Yom Kippur went that year he decided to square up.
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u/sauron3579 4h ago
consulting for various […] law enforcement agencies
hoping I would interviews a […] law enforcement official
Damn, contractors getting screwed every time
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u/Gymrat777 4h ago
I teach forensic accounting... I would have been blown away if a student had gone so far beyond the minimum like this.
Funny story, last time I taught the course (about a year ago) one of my students (masters class) had spent 2 years in jail for securities fraud. We had a good time that semester...
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u/Nick_BOI 7h ago
Teachers, professors and TA's are so shocked by even the slightest bit of effort you can spend much less net effort overall and blow them away.
Reminds me of a story my professor for music in class once, explaining why the instructions for the upcoming essay stated that notes could only be 8.5 by 11 inches.
He said there was a time where they forgot to put the little symbol indicating inches, and the word inches was not specified. (He later clarified this was the first class he had taught and has not made this same mistake since).
So they brought in notes that were 8.5 by 12 feet, and when he brought up the discrepancy, they just let him use it.
I asked him how this student got paper that big, and the professor's response:
"A looooooot of tape".
I frequently remember this and chuckle.
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u/indyK1ng 8h ago
Conversely, if you know you're not going to be able to dedicate your full effort (or event think you can't) talking to your professor about it helps.
I once had a professor I was sociable with and when it came to the final project I didn't think I'd have the energy or time to do everything (chronic procrastination combined with traveling to the company that had hired me doing an orientation for their college hires that week). I talked to him about it, made sure I'd done well enough to pass the course, and he said he appreciated it because it was always frustrating when a good student turned in poor work and he didn't know why.
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u/dovahkiitten16 8h ago
That’s only less effort if you don’t really have anxiety/social anxiety.
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u/CuzRacecar 8h ago
I weighed the pros and cons on stressing over getting it finished for 3 weeks around finals or just being done with it in one day.
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u/JonatasA 6h ago
That would have otherwise take the person weeks to do and recover from.
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u/drunkcowofdeath 9h ago
Meanwhile one time for programming class I just kept zipping the same folder and named it week1homework.zip week2homework.zip and got an A on every one.
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u/PhantomTissue 8h ago
Lmao that wouldn’t work for my programming classes. You had to compile it and run it against a series of tests he wrote, the results of which were saved on his server. The more tests you passed, the higher your grade.
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u/Jomax101 8h ago edited 7h ago
Computer science classes had the best grading ever, the Harvard cs50 class is entirely online, you aren’t even a student, and it marks and grades your work faster then my actual lecturers from my university im actually enrolled at
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u/its_not_brian 7h ago
And here I had a class where I got marked down for homework that compiled, ran and passed tests but the professor said I wrote with too much white space. There was no style guide provided, he just didn't like that I did that.
Debated writing one assignment that was just one continuous like, but I'm sure he would've just failed me for that assignment
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u/PhantomTissue 7h ago
I had a professor like that in my intro to web dev, had a site that passed all the functional requirements, but got a C because the professor didn’t like my choice of color.
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u/astelda 8h ago
a lot of the laziness described in these comments is pretty sensible
this one though...
This is the single most automate-able grading opportunity in the thread, and you would think a programming instructor, like any programmer, would jump at the opportunity to automate something in a way that would actually save time rather than the script-writing taking longer than "doing the task the hard way" would.
Was this a high school class where they just put some gym teacher in charge of the elective?
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u/drunkcowofdeath 8h ago
Programming track for an information systems degree. I only got away with it because he did an amnesty for anyone missing homework at the end of the year. I had B+ as an A's and pretty much everything else in the class and was essentially a TA for my group of friends who are in the class. So he knew I knew my stuff. I was just too backed up another work at the end of the term so I shot my shot. I figured if he emailed me back I would say I screwed up the script that zipped up the folders and spend the two or so hours of probably have taken me to catch up legit.
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u/AlluminumChronicles 8h ago
Damn bro. I didn’t even pass the test cases when I tried this
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u/mynameisrainer 9h ago
I didn't do something this crazy, but in college I wrote some paper about cigarettes. I burnt a hole with one straight through the middle of it before turning it in. I got 110 on it.
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u/CatsAreGods 9h ago
Fahrenheit or Celsius?
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u/mynameisrainer 9h ago
Yes
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u/realityChemist 8h ago
Careful now, that kind of answer is how you accidentally get a -40
Because -40°F = -40°C, for anyone who wasn't aware
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u/sabangnim 6h ago
In highschool, I had to write a poem about an object, in the shape of that object. I wrote about a mirror, and wrote it all backwards so you had to read it while looking at it in a mirror.
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u/cboel 10h ago
Doesn't almost everyone do this with lemon juice in the fourth grade?
We're all on the path to become ninjas!
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u/Jack_Torrance_91 10h ago
That's how Ben Gates found the cipher on the back of the declaration of Independence
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u/HeavyFlange 9h ago
i saw that documentary too, the guy just stole the declaration of independence to try that in his kitchen - crazy.
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u/urbanhawk1 9h ago
Not quite. They used the juice from soybeans that they soaked for several hours before crushing them.
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u/bbarber126 8h ago
In a “women in history” class in college, we were assigned a specific topic to write and present about. Had to use X amount of primary source material. My topic was “Women of so and so town”. Primary sources provided weren’t great and couldn’t really find anything great online to help answer the necessary discussion points. Instead, I logged into Facebook, requested to join a “people of so and so group”, and asked the group if any of them grew up in the specific era, or remembered the experiences of their mothers or grandmothers in that era, explaining what I was writing about. The post absolutely blew up with responses from women of the era that I was writing about. Hundreds of comments, great discussions and responses. For my presentation I just logged into Facebook on the projector and scrolled through the comment section. The professor loved it and it made life way easier than digging through old source material.
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u/BartleBossy 9h ago
"Heated over a gas stove"
Idiot here.
Is there something about the gas stove's heat that works in a way that an electric range or space heater might not have?
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u/ishook 7h ago
In middle school I had a book report due and the teacher was calling random students to talk about their book and they’d turn in their paper at the same time. Funny story, I didn’t do it. Like completely forgot. Nothing to turn in. Anyway he calls me to talk about my book and the fire alarm goes off. We all exit the building, I got an “A” somehow.
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u/lkodl 9h ago edited 9h ago
Invisible ink is a classic Ninja tool.
So if her thesis was about like, the history of invisble ink usage and the traditional techniques to make it and stuff, then yeah, i's give her the A without finishing the paper. I got a demo.
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u/Jaded_Library_8540 8h ago
Apparently she specifically followed the traditional method for creating said invisible ink
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u/forkedquality 9h ago
Every nation has ninjas. We only know about Japanese ninjas because they are not very good.
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u/messed_up_alligator 10h ago
"Don't ask me how I got the ink... Urine. It was urine. 😀"
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u/DaveOJ12 10h ago
It was actually soybeans.
Eimi Haga followed the ninja technique of "aburidashi", spending hours soaking and crushing soybeans to make the ink.
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u/messed_up_alligator 10h ago
Genuinely, thank you for that info; very interesting. Just to be clear, my first comment is a reference to The Office. Sorry for the confusion
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u/manamara1 7h ago
On an essay submission with regards to corruption, I stapled $5. Got a sold B and the $5 back.
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u/Material_Fisherman86 7h ago
A friend of mine wrote a paper on l33t speak or leet speak or whatever it was called where you used numbers in place of letters. The purpose of the paper was to explain what it was but he mostly wrote nonsense and thought he would get a good grade because he wrote the whole paper and then did find and replace to exchange certain letters for numbers and throughout. But instead the professor graded it seriously and ignored all the numbers and he got a D.
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u/xFyreStorm 8h ago
In 10th grade, a little over a decade ago now, I was kinda pissed that all through Elementary, and a bit of Middle school, teachers would be like, "you need to know cursive! once you get to high school, it'll be the only thing you can use!" Which of course never came to pass. So out of spite I spent that year writing in nothing but cursive. History tests, English tests, anything. There were absolutely a couple times my teachers just slapped on an A because they couldn't be bothered spending the extra time it would take to read it, which is probably the only payoff I'm ever going to get from knowing cursive. Lol.
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u/Tall_Bandicoot_2768 7h ago
Another lesser known trick they used was to write the words with mulberry juice instead of ink.
When the letter was dropped in a batch of silkworms they would eat out the message.
Cool stuff.
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u/lcbyri 8h ago
i was really depressed and wasn't coming to class much in high school but i went for exams just to try. on one question, we were asked to balance two chemical equations. i drew the scales of justice and wrote the two equations and got credit for the answer, and my teacher gave me an alternative for the final bc he really did want to see me pass. it was the best class i ever took; i wish i could have been there more frequently.
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u/TheHighestAuthority 8h ago
The face of my professor when they start grading my essay and it turns into a wood trunk 🥷
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u/Doogiemon 8h ago
I had a professor who didn't read anything and people didn't believe me.
I went on one 5 page paper for pages 3 and 4 about socks.
It's like you turned in a 5 page paper and 2 hours later were graded, she isn't reading those. You received a grade based on length and that was it.
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u/Garchompisbestboi 2h ago
These types of TILs are so stupid, it's the equivilent of posting "TIL that some guy in Wisconson found a wallet with 50 bucks in it. He chose not to hand it into the police and kept the money for himself"
It's just purely worthless information about some performative stunt involving nobody of consequence.
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u/hellschatt 9h ago
Once we had to write an essay about courage, and a friend of mine handed in an empty essay, just with the words "This is courage".
The teacher loved it but was also kinda conflicted. She let him pass, although only with a medium grade.
This story reminded me of this, although no idea why this gimmick would be newsworthy lol
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u/senortipton 7h ago
I submitted my physics homework in LaTex once. The TA gave me a 100 even though I made the same mistake as my friend lmao
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u/phasepistol 10h ago
Sometimes a stunt works. I’m sure the next essay submitted in invisible ink was reviewed with brutal precision.