Homework sucks...
So one of my classes wants me to do a "fun-filled" mutlimedia project about myself and something that is important to me. Being the private misanthropic type, this assignment is going to be hell but its kind of like my midterm so now I have to make up some feelings and pretend I have them... coffee5.gif
What was a homework assignment you really disliked doing?
True beauty exists in things that last only for a moment.
Current Mood: And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe. Maybe this year will be better than the last. I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself. To hold on to these moments as they pass...
Anything that involved "this isn't going to be due for [several weeks]" because I inevitably put it off to the night before. Every time.
Yes, even giant projects worth a quarter of my grade in college.
I'm a model student, huh?
Homework was always the worst part about school. I would do the exact same thing as Pike, and would never learn my lesson.
I thought everyone did this?Originally Posted by Pike
I was taking a class in Cryptography and the end of the semester was approaching. I'd procrastinated everything as usual. We had a research project and a take-home final due on the same day as the in-class final. It was an absurd amount of work; even if I had budgeted my time out responsibly it still would have been overwhelming.
So I got to work on the take-home final around 4 PM the afternoon before it was due. I slaved all through the night, typing commands aimlessly into PARI/GP hoping I would magically arrive at some sort of feasible answer. I was still drowning myself in black coffee as the sun began to rise. I worked on the take-home final until I had to go to the in-class final at I think 9:00 AM, and I still hadn't finished it.
I finished the in-class final, and dragged my greasy, haggard, sleep-deprived mothersmurfing self BACK to the library to finish the other stuff, both of which were due in the prof's office by 5 PM.
As much of a procrastinator as I am, I had managed to whip up a troutty research essay on quantum cryptography a few days before this madness, so I sat down and edited it up for maybe 2 hours, and then deemed it submittable (was it? not really).
Then I began a mad dash to finish the take home final. Eventually I realized that I had only one question left and half an hour to turn all my trout in. IT was something to do with RSA encryption and calculating the determinant of some smurfoff huge matrix, and I deliberately left it til the end. I stared at it for a while and started to think I should just give up on it. TheN I had some sort of EUREKA mad scientist moment where I had an idea and it somehow worked. I literally ran to the professor's office and turned those bitches in at 4:56, four minutes before the deadline. I felt like Indiana Jones narrowly escaping a temple before a boulder crushes him or some trout.
I'm not the type who's like "ah yea pullin an all nighter is cake for me, do it all the time man what's the big deal". I smurfing hate all-nighters, and this was the first of two I ended up pulling in college. I'd say this or the miserably boring paper I wrote on Complete Metric Spaces for my Topology course were the worst things I had to do in college. It does feel great to finish a behemoth of an assignment like this, but Ican safely say I don't miss these parts of college too much.
I hate group/partner projects.
I had to take a second chemistry course when I transferred schools and I hated it. Earlier in my academic career I had some interest in chemistry but I was a senior and just wanted to graduate and was annoyed because I had already taken chemistry and done very well in it. I ended up having to write a lengthy research paper on some BS for reasons I don't really remember. It was like pulling teeth.
Otherwise I was a pretty good student. There was plenty I didn't like to do but I pushed through. Usually I got a good start on stuff just so I wasn't waiting until the last minute. No all-nighters for me at all during school.
Yes, group projects suck. Completely.
I'm about to start two all-nighters in a row, probably. Hooray!
yes, this.
also, one history class I took where all the course material was spoken by the professor with virtually no external resources. writing essays for that class was a nightmare.
All of it.
I can count on one hand the actual number of completed homework that I did in school. (no I can't, because I don't remember)
Never did homework
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How to count?
Any homework assignment that had a speech of group project element to it.
One of my current classes is absolutely horrible in regards to homework.
Yes, that's it. I don't remember how to count.
Wait wait wait
Is this why Mormons have so many wives?
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