I got my revenge with illegible hand writing.
That was me. In college one of the Prof's made me do his "blue book" essay tests in the computer lab. "I'm too old, my eyes too bad to try and read your chicken scratch". Mind you, this was pre-internetasweknowit days, so it's not like I could google info (not that I would, but teachers gotta make sure folks don't cheat and stuff). To this day, I'd much rather tap out notes than write them... funny thing is, if I write them, I learn them a lot better than tapping them. If I do neither, the info could very well pass from one ear, and out the other.
Also, I do have to say I was wrong and disrespectful to do homework in other classes!
Thank the goodness for free periods in high school!
When I watch "Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader" I am absolutely boggled at what is being taught in 5th and below. I would swear we didn't see some of that stuff when I was in school.
My nephew was one of those "skip the homework, ace the test" kids in school, too, but he found out it bit him in the ass this past year when he couldn't get into the school he wanted because of his grades being so low from lack of homework.
I think college will be much more his style, but his major, computer programming, is still going to require lots of homework to be turned in.
My first college had a strict attendance policy and you could be flunked for missing... three? four? not sure.
Anyway, I had a friend who missed class religiously and then would beg and plead the professor to take the exam anyway. And he would ace the exam. And they'd give him a C because you can't really flunk a guy who aced the exam, but since he'd done dead nothing all semester he wasn't getting anything but a pass.
OMG WHERE ARE YOU PEOPLE?!?!?!
You know what I hated worse? There were teachers I had who made us pass in our notes, to make sure we were taking notes. Didn't matter if you aced the test if you didn't do enough notes.
What?! Oh lord, I would have failed EVERYTHING. Because my notes were some important words or phrases, surrounded by song lyrics by Adam Ant and Duran Duran.
OMG WHERE ARE YOU PEOPLE?!?!?!
SHHHH!!! We're hiding from Trudy.
What?! Oh lord, I would have failed EVERYTHING. Because my notes were some important words or phrases, surrounded by song lyrics by Adam Ant and Duran Duran.
Yeah, would you lose points if the margins were torn off? Because no way would my teachers get my fancy "I love 'insert crush of the week' " covered margins.
Joe laughed at my 20th Century History class notes last semester when he was trying to quiz me before exams. Some key points:
*Rommell = Desert Fox
Patton = AWESOME!!
*Belgium--->Leopold--->Congo--->Rubber--->GIANT ASSHOLE
