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Final project for my degree , only took me three years.
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Being an architecture major can be really fun. It seems like every time a final review comes up for a project you have to stay up all night working until the minute before the deadline.
So, 24 hours before my final review with everything I needed to present being finished, the culmination of two months of work, I was told by my instructor that my design is crap and that I had two options. I either kept the design, which would result in the panel at the final review becoming a firing squad and a bad grade, or I could completely redesign the entire project, which in the amount of time he said would be next to impossible, but would give me some sympathy points in the final review.
I chose to scrap the old design, and so I spent the next 24 hours continuously working on creating a new design, creating new mappings of the design, new partis, new section diagrams, new axonometrics, new unit plans, a new 3D model of the design, and new renderings of the model. I finished about 30 minutes before the print shop closed, the end product wasn't great, but it was leagues above the other design, and I did end up getting some sympathy from the panel due to the circumstances in which my design was created (and as it turned out someone else had to do the exact same thing).
So, 24 hours before my final review with everything I needed to present being finished, the culmination of two months of work, I was told by my instructor that my design is crap and that I had two options. I either kept the design, which would result in the panel at the final review becoming a firing squad and a bad grade, or I could completely redesign the entire project, which in the amount of time he said would be next to impossible, but would give me some sympathy points in the final review.
I chose to scrap the old design, and so I spent the next 24 hours continuously working on creating a new design, creating new mappings of the design, new partis, new section diagrams, new axonometrics, new unit plans, a new 3D model of the design, and new renderings of the model. I finished about 30 minutes before the print shop closed, the end product wasn't great, but it was leagues above the other design, and I did end up getting some sympathy from the panel due to the circumstances in which my design was created (and as it turned out someone else had to do the exact same thing).
Night Angel
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I had a physics II (dynamics/magnetism, kill me pls) class where all of the homework was due at the end of the semester. It was done online, multiple choice, and you were given multiple attempts. To pass the class, you needed a 100% on all homework assignments. Each attempt had new, but similar questions.
I had basically done none of the homework. Two days before the final/end of the semester, I got an email from the prof saying I'd fail the class if I didn't complete (get a 100% on) all of the homework. At first I figured I goofed since each of the 22 assignments were estimated to take at least an hour. In my panic I just guessed the 10 questions of the first assignment and submitted. I got a 20. So I looked at the report, and it told me the answers. Hmmmm.
I did the assignment again, no duplicate questions. Submitted my guesses, got the answers. On my third attempt there were 2 repeated questions! So I basically went through all of the assignments, submitting them 10 or so times and opening the answer bank to complete them with a 100% on the last attempt. The whole semester's homework took about an hour.
The prof looked into it afterwards and emailed me that he wasn't going to curve my grade because while I technically followed the rules, he didn't think I earned a curve. Given that the average curve is 20 or so points in this class, I thought I was screwed.
I ended up getting a 94 on the final (average was a 40), which replaced my lowest test grade (a 60) and got me an uncurved A in the class. The prof changed the rules for the next year to only allow 3 attempts per assignment with no requirement for a 100%.
I had basically done none of the homework. Two days before the final/end of the semester, I got an email from the prof saying I'd fail the class if I didn't complete (get a 100% on) all of the homework. At first I figured I goofed since each of the 22 assignments were estimated to take at least an hour. In my panic I just guessed the 10 questions of the first assignment and submitted. I got a 20. So I looked at the report, and it told me the answers. Hmmmm.
I did the assignment again, no duplicate questions. Submitted my guesses, got the answers. On my third attempt there were 2 repeated questions! So I basically went through all of the assignments, submitting them 10 or so times and opening the answer bank to complete them with a 100% on the last attempt. The whole semester's homework took about an hour.
The prof looked into it afterwards and emailed me that he wasn't going to curve my grade because while I technically followed the rules, he didn't think I earned a curve. Given that the average curve is 20 or so points in this class, I thought I was screwed.
I ended up getting a 94 on the final (average was a 40), which replaced my lowest test grade (a 60) and got me an uncurved A in the class. The prof changed the rules for the next year to only allow 3 attempts per assignment with no requirement for a 100%.
I had a college final research paper marked on the wrong day on my calendar so I thought I had at least a week and a half left to finish it. Walked into class that day and it was due.
I was like "SHITFUCK I'm screwed." I had all of these books I didn't read, and not a word written, no research done.
I quietly walked out of there, I knew his last class ended in four hours. Beelined straight toward the library, pulled out my laptop, plugged it into one of the outdoor outlets that could be found along the edge of the planters that we had right outside our library. Sat down on a bench that backed up against a planter with the laptop in my lap. Started writing the body, flipping to random pages on the books I had and made use of a bunch of paranthetical citations and wrote my content around them, finishing at 10 pages with the intro and conclusion last. Then quickly put together a reference page. I had about 20 mins left, still needed to print.
Went into the library, there was a long ass line. I waited anxiously, took about ten mins, then I had to use this stupid student ID system, load it with money, load the file onto the computer, get it to print, then rushed by to class with 3 mins to spare. Tried to calm myself down, faked casually walking into his room, turned it in.
Got an A.
I was like "SHITFUCK I'm screwed." I had all of these books I didn't read, and not a word written, no research done.
I quietly walked out of there, I knew his last class ended in four hours. Beelined straight toward the library, pulled out my laptop, plugged it into one of the outdoor outlets that could be found along the edge of the planters that we had right outside our library. Sat down on a bench that backed up against a planter with the laptop in my lap. Started writing the body, flipping to random pages on the books I had and made use of a bunch of paranthetical citations and wrote my content around them, finishing at 10 pages with the intro and conclusion last. Then quickly put together a reference page. I had about 20 mins left, still needed to print.
Went into the library, there was a long ass line. I waited anxiously, took about ten mins, then I had to use this stupid student ID system, load it with money, load the file onto the computer, get it to print, then rushed by to class with 3 mins to spare. Tried to calm myself down, faked casually walking into his room, turned it in.
Got an A.
PushTheButtonMax
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Not really impressive but closest I cut it was a college essay on Watchmen and what it means to be human or some bullshit. Started writing it an hour before the deadline to submit it and the professor loved it.
PeskyToaster
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I read all of the Analects and then wrote a 10 page paper on them in one night. I love history classes so I did them fast and well. I did the entire History Minor in that one semester. It was awesome.
Laevateinn
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This reminds me of the time I wrote an essay on a camper in Unreal Tournament and what it made me think of the death penalty.
Apple Turnover
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Wrote a 10 page paper the night prior, scored an 80 in 1st year university. I forget the topic though. Tried it again in 2nd year for a paper and... well, let's just say lightning didn't strike twice.
Escape Goat
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I wrote a paper on Andrew Jackson for my Advanced Placement American History in high school. I wrote it the night before. I always wrote my papers the night before and I loved history but I hated to write papers. I get the paper back a few days later with "See me after class" at the top. I thought she was going to tell me how awesome it was. But she asks me if I had any help in writing it. I was offended and flattered at the same time. My grades were As and Bs. She said it was college level. If she had any evidence that indicated I had acted unethically she never mentioned it.
I have so many of these haha but my favorite one is something I did in my senior year in high school in some math class (I think it was pre calculus or something similar)
Our match teacher is also the head of the math department and is known for being notoriously strict. At the end of the year he makes us do a presentation on one of the chapters of the book to the class. We get put into groups of 2-3 people.
Fortunately I was put with a good friend of mine and we work great together, unfortunately we got the hardest chapter that EVERYONE even the smartest kids in the class were trying to avoid. I still remember one of the top kids in the class tapping my shoulder from the back and saying "my condolences to you RIP" when we got that chapter (I remember it was chapter 3 but don't remember what it was about haha)
Me and my friend did some stupid power point (back when power point wasn't really a thing) with Britney Spears, Pokemon, and other random shit but my friend had saved everything to a ZIP drive and for one reason or another it didn't load but the teacher forced us to do the presentation without our material and of course we bombed HARD.
After class the teacher told us he will give us a chance to redo it in a couple of days during lunch break because we did have a legit reason why it wasn't working properly and it was also worth 30% of our final grade.
So me and my friend didn't know what to do but I insisted we had to do it as a proper presentation with images and sounds and impress the teacher because we sure as fuck didn't understand the material lol. Around 4AM my friend calls me the day it was due and we still didn't do anything and then I ask him "what does the teacher like?" and he says he loves sci fi and is a big star trek and star wars geek. I was actually surprised as I didn't notice that about our teacher before but trusted my friend and I told him lets do chapter 3 as a "how to become a Jedi" presentation and we had all the sound effects and stuff (even the beginning of the presentation had the scrolling text like the start of the movies). Around 5 or 6 AM me and my friend finished doing the presentation over the phone.
I actually didn't get to see the presentation until I actually presented it but I trusted my friend to put it together nicely and he trusted me that I present it and bullshit my way through it (I was good at presentations and me and my friend teamed up in other classes and I always presented so we knew how to work with each other) . The only thing I was aware of were what we talked about over the phone, and then came lunch break!
I saw that the teacher was wearing a star trek tie and was relieved that he really is a sci fi geek and I presented the shit out of that presentation and had math equations as Jedi disciplines and rules, etc and it was over in roughly 10 min or less.
He actually stood from his chair at the end and clapped for us and he looked at me and said "hey do you really understand what you just said" and with a huge grin on my face said "sir this is how you become a Jedi. I cannot change the rules of the Jedi and if you want more information you can ask Luke Skywalker" both me and my friend had no idea what the fuck we said but we said it so good he was really impressed and told us in 20 years of teaching this was his best presentation and he ended up giving us 110% and he NEVER does anything like that because he was so strict.
That presentation also gave me extra confidence in my presentation skills and now a big part of my job is presenting haha
Our match teacher is also the head of the math department and is known for being notoriously strict. At the end of the year he makes us do a presentation on one of the chapters of the book to the class. We get put into groups of 2-3 people.
Fortunately I was put with a good friend of mine and we work great together, unfortunately we got the hardest chapter that EVERYONE even the smartest kids in the class were trying to avoid. I still remember one of the top kids in the class tapping my shoulder from the back and saying "my condolences to you RIP" when we got that chapter (I remember it was chapter 3 but don't remember what it was about haha)
Me and my friend did some stupid power point (back when power point wasn't really a thing) with Britney Spears, Pokemon, and other random shit but my friend had saved everything to a ZIP drive and for one reason or another it didn't load but the teacher forced us to do the presentation without our material and of course we bombed HARD.
After class the teacher told us he will give us a chance to redo it in a couple of days during lunch break because we did have a legit reason why it wasn't working properly and it was also worth 30% of our final grade.
So me and my friend didn't know what to do but I insisted we had to do it as a proper presentation with images and sounds and impress the teacher because we sure as fuck didn't understand the material lol. Around 4AM my friend calls me the day it was due and we still didn't do anything and then I ask him "what does the teacher like?" and he says he loves sci fi and is a big star trek and star wars geek. I was actually surprised as I didn't notice that about our teacher before but trusted my friend and I told him lets do chapter 3 as a "how to become a Jedi" presentation and we had all the sound effects and stuff (even the beginning of the presentation had the scrolling text like the start of the movies). Around 5 or 6 AM me and my friend finished doing the presentation over the phone.
I actually didn't get to see the presentation until I actually presented it but I trusted my friend to put it together nicely and he trusted me that I present it and bullshit my way through it (I was good at presentations and me and my friend teamed up in other classes and I always presented so we knew how to work with each other) . The only thing I was aware of were what we talked about over the phone, and then came lunch break!
I saw that the teacher was wearing a star trek tie and was relieved that he really is a sci fi geek and I presented the shit out of that presentation and had math equations as Jedi disciplines and rules, etc and it was over in roughly 10 min or less.
He actually stood from his chair at the end and clapped for us and he looked at me and said "hey do you really understand what you just said" and with a huge grin on my face said "sir this is how you become a Jedi. I cannot change the rules of the Jedi and if you want more information you can ask Luke Skywalker" both me and my friend had no idea what the fuck we said but we said it so good he was really impressed and told us in 20 years of teaching this was his best presentation and he ended up giving us 110% and he NEVER does anything like that because he was so strict.
That presentation also gave me extra confidence in my presentation skills and now a big part of my job is presenting haha
SciencePilot
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Oh man, this thread is like the single reason I decided not to go to grad school. I realized didn't want to live this life anymore.
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40+ page capstone for my MBA in 36 hours. Aced it.
"...In the 3rd grade."
Doing my Masters in Law I did my dissertation in 2 days. 18,000 words.
I was called in by the head of the law school saying I didnt report to him with my progress on my dissertation and that he was going to fail me from the Masters. Luckily I kind of impressed him with my grades in my other assessments so far (plus chatting some shit).
So the convo went something like this:
Him: How can you expect to do your dissertation in a few days?
Me: I'll manage.
Him: you don't even have a title for your dissertation do you?
Me: ...of course I do.
Him: What is it?
Me:
My brain is now working so fucking fast trying to come up with a dissertation topic out of the fucking blue. Why didn't I think to come up with one before even seeing this guy? Wtf is wrong with me man? Ah shit....focus you idiot. Dissertation....words....impressive...sounding....title...
Then somehow I blurt out:
"Is the United Nations a Bastion of Negation"
- Now I'm thinking...wtf...does that even make sense? I don't even know anything about the UN! Wait...is that even relevant? Fuck. FUCK!!
On the outside I am like:
In my mind I'm like:
*Well...I had a good run...retail for life for me....
And then he was like...."very good title. I look forward to reading it"
Me:
Then it hit me. I had 2 days to do this disseration including research on an organisation I knew little about and had no real interest in.
Long story short- I drank a lot of red bull- no sleep for two days- I actually lost half my dissertation at one point I shit you not. One of the most horrible experiences ever. But through some herculean effort and a saga that I could make a movie out of...it got done. It was shit...but it was passable and I submitted it on time...barely
I was called in by the head of the law school saying I didnt report to him with my progress on my dissertation and that he was going to fail me from the Masters. Luckily I kind of impressed him with my grades in my other assessments so far (plus chatting some shit).
So the convo went something like this:
Him: How can you expect to do your dissertation in a few days?
Me: I'll manage.
Him: you don't even have a title for your dissertation do you?
Me: ...of course I do.
Him: What is it?
Me:
My brain is now working so fucking fast trying to come up with a dissertation topic out of the fucking blue. Why didn't I think to come up with one before even seeing this guy? Wtf is wrong with me man? Ah shit....focus you idiot. Dissertation....words....impressive...sounding....title...
Then somehow I blurt out:
"Is the United Nations a Bastion of Negation"
- Now I'm thinking...wtf...does that even make sense? I don't even know anything about the UN! Wait...is that even relevant? Fuck. FUCK!!
On the outside I am like:
In my mind I'm like:
*Well...I had a good run...retail for life for me....
And then he was like...."very good title. I look forward to reading it"
Me:
Then it hit me. I had 2 days to do this disseration including research on an organisation I knew little about and had no real interest in.
Long story short- I drank a lot of red bull- no sleep for two days- I actually lost half my dissertation at one point I shit you not. One of the most horrible experiences ever. But through some herculean effort and a saga that I could make a movie out of...it got done. It was shit...but it was passable and I submitted it on time...barely
EnlightenedMint
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Completed a 14 page research paper in about 8 hours a week ago, I'll say I won't wait to the last minute again, but that's probably a lie.
TheCochese
Banned
Completely made up a paper on recycling in high school, made an A.
Imagine my surprise when I got to college and started failing.
Imagine my surprise when I got to college and started failing.
Escape Goat
Member
In our high school Health class people would put stupid answers in our daily worksheet assignments that made no sense. They'd still get credit for them. The teacher wasn't looking at them at all.
As an adult I probably should have said something. But I was a nerd and actually doing the assignments. I never got anyone pregnant though and never asked Yahoo Answers when it was safe to get pregnan0nt again.
Apple Turnover
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Reminds me how in Grade 11, I wrote a paper on Hitler with absolutely no research whatsoever. Only failed it since I handed it in a week or two late, so the teacher knocked off a hefty percentage.
Feel the Swift
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Yep. I got nothing on par with some people in this thread. Truly don't understand how somebody of you don't break down from anxiety.
LastGamer84
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Procrastinated doing a high school geography report on a vacation to Japan until the night before. Stayed up late working on it with help from my Mom. Crappy one page report with no pictures except one of a Japanese flag. Thought for sure I was going to get an F.
Ended up gettin a 110/100 - because I remembered to put on the report that an adapter was needed for power plug-in (not true anymore surprisingly).
I was so elated the rest of the day. And yes I did thank my Mom! In retrospect I was such a lazy kid lol.
Ended up gettin a 110/100 - because I remembered to put on the report that an adapter was needed for power plug-in (not true anymore surprisingly).
I was so elated the rest of the day. And yes I did thank my Mom! In retrospect I was such a lazy kid lol.
AppleBlade
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I wait last minute for everything but there have been a few times where a stroke of inspiration allows me to create something really good.
In high school, the day before it was due we were supposed to write a story about some tension that our teacher (student teacher) was having with the regular classroom teacher who was mentoring him. I wrote a huge epic about a battle between heaven and hell and how the two teachers were at the center of it. Got the highest grade in the class.
In college I also wrote a 20 page art history assignment the day before it was due and got an A+ from a tough professor. I turned it into a play about the funeral of a prominent Florentine renaissance architect and in the course of the funeral several important Florentine figures spoke and through their speeches I gave insight into what was going on in that time and also summarized the achievements of the deceased. I threw in a ton of details that gave hints to the political landscape and even some of the little kids that were playing outside were future prominent artists that I new were kids at the time of the fictional funeral.
In high school, the day before it was due we were supposed to write a story about some tension that our teacher (student teacher) was having with the regular classroom teacher who was mentoring him. I wrote a huge epic about a battle between heaven and hell and how the two teachers were at the center of it. Got the highest grade in the class.
In college I also wrote a 20 page art history assignment the day before it was due and got an A+ from a tough professor. I turned it into a play about the funeral of a prominent Florentine renaissance architect and in the course of the funeral several important Florentine figures spoke and through their speeches I gave insight into what was going on in that time and also summarized the achievements of the deceased. I threw in a ton of details that gave hints to the political landscape and even some of the little kids that were playing outside were future prominent artists that I new were kids at the time of the fictional funeral.
matthewwhatever
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In the last week of my last year as an undergrad:
- spent the Monday and Tuesday writing a 75-page Honours thesis (including a 3-page bibliography) in 2 days; got an A-.
- wrote a 12 page essay on pop music on the Wednesday; got another A-.
- collaborated with two other people to write up some stats research project on the Thursday; got a B or a B+.
And I did it all without doing any all-nighters.
I've gone back to get my Master's now. Thankfully, my work habits have improved substantially.
- spent the Monday and Tuesday writing a 75-page Honours thesis (including a 3-page bibliography) in 2 days; got an A-.
- wrote a 12 page essay on pop music on the Wednesday; got another A-.
- collaborated with two other people to write up some stats research project on the Thursday; got a B or a B+.
And I did it all without doing any all-nighters.
I've gone back to get my Master's now. Thankfully, my work habits have improved substantially.
I did my final year CS report... 60+ pages in 48+ hours with no sleep. I submitted it late because it took forever to print and the public trasport failed me multiple times. I got an A for it. Now I had a skeleton written up and enough ideas to get it done but my mental state since the 2nd year was in shambles. I was considering of just not doing it, before forcing every bit of motivation that was left in my body to finish it.
My question would be, which one did you submit?
I'm glad I did, phew!
My question would be, which one did you submit?
hazelnoots
Member
Did a semester long news article project day after it was due, turned in, got a 98. Bam. College geology.
I did my science fair project on dinosaurs in the 6th grade the night before; it was amazing. We did have a computer so I typed it up on a typewriter.
I drew and colored the poster board into a visual timeline of the Paleozoic Era. I covered fossilization, carbon dating etc. It was epic.
I got second place and they put it in the display case at school. To bad I was pulled from that school the last two months and never got it back.
I drew and colored the poster board into a visual timeline of the Paleozoic Era. I covered fossilization, carbon dating etc. It was epic.
I got second place and they put it in the display case at school. To bad I was pulled from that school the last two months and never got it back.
9th grade: read out a 1,5 page essay about the meaning of several symbols in Theodor Storms novella 'The Rider on the White Horse' off a blank sheet. Had hoped I wouldn't get called up to present my views, my hardass teacher didn't notice and commended me on the essay.
business administration degree, project model for the final exam: started at 1am with a deadline at 12, knocked out 13 pages and a detailed business plan within 3 hours and got the second highest grade
I am ashamed. Or rather, I am ashamed right before it's too late to be ashamed and shape up just in time
business administration degree, project model for the final exam: started at 1am with a deadline at 12, knocked out 13 pages and a detailed business plan within 3 hours and got the second highest grade
I am ashamed. Or rather, I am ashamed right before it's too late to be ashamed and shape up just in time
Sectorseven
Member
30 page final exam grade essay on American folklore done in one night.
Girthquake
Banned
MrChocolate
Member
Final project for my degree. Took about a month. It was the hardest I have ever worked and while it was a really shitty document, I fucking nailed the presentation to the committee. So I basically raided on that to get my degree.
Violence Jack
Member
My final Senior project to get my Bachelors Degree. Built a fully functioning website (that was to be an IT work order creation system) with SQL code linking to database registration, and a 20 page step-by-step guide on how I created the site due in 2 weeks. 2 days before it was due, got hit with a virus and any drives that I had plugged into my computer got erased leaving me 48 hours to recreate it again and to work out a problem I was having with the coding. Thankfully, I still had my written notes which helped a bit, but being up for 2 days straight while taking other finals was not fun. I just barely got it turned in on time.
Alcotholic
Banned
I had to make a creative presentation about the horrors of WW1. I didnt do the assignment and I was sitting in class, dreading telling the teacher. Then it struck me, I started writing a list of things soldiers would have to experience in the trenches and made a Beat Poem out of it- 2 minutes before I had to present. I walked up to the front of the classroom and began reciting the list. I started out soft, mostly because I wasnt confident, but then I had the brilliant idea to gradually get louder. And Louder. And Louder. Calling out words from my list till I was shouting at the top of my lungs.
I got an "A" and everyone told me my poem was chilling.
I got an "A" and everyone told me my poem was chilling.
DragonGirl
Banned
English literature college course. I like the subject and was fine with the class but for whatever reason absolutely could not bring myself to do the the reports. There were three we had to do over the course of the class and I did none which meant I'd have a failing grade unless I could get them to the teacher before she turned in her grades...so I had to write 3 reports at a minimum of 3 pages each with full references in 2 days. I can write some incredibly convincing BS when under pressure. I basically lived at the school's computer lab for those two days when I wasn't scrambling around the library. I ended up with a B in that class.
mhayes86
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Holy crap at some of these page lengths done in a few hours.
I don't procrastinate, so I don't have an amazing story like most of these, but my most impressive one was a final exam for a philosophy course. I attended the class maybe four times the entire semester, BSed my way through assignments, but the final exam was two hours to write a few page research paper about one of four topics from the class. Fortunately, we didn't have to stay in class to do it, and since I didn't do any of the readings during the semester, I ran to the campus library, spent an hour doing research, and then the other hour writing the paper. Turned it in just in time and got an A on it and in the class.
Another that I can think of was a database group project deliverable that was due the next day. We had a database built, but it wasn't working right. I think it had to do with some of the table links being set up incorrectly, so I spent the night before rebuilding it from scratch and was able to get our group through the presentation successfully with a good grade.
I don't procrastinate, so I don't have an amazing story like most of these, but my most impressive one was a final exam for a philosophy course. I attended the class maybe four times the entire semester, BSed my way through assignments, but the final exam was two hours to write a few page research paper about one of four topics from the class. Fortunately, we didn't have to stay in class to do it, and since I didn't do any of the readings during the semester, I ran to the campus library, spent an hour doing research, and then the other hour writing the paper. Turned it in just in time and got an A on it and in the class.
Another that I can think of was a database group project deliverable that was due the next day. We had a database built, but it wasn't working right. I think it had to do with some of the table links being set up incorrectly, so I spent the night before rebuilding it from scratch and was able to get our group through the presentation successfully with a good grade.
Indrid Cold1
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Some of you guys stories lol
I started and completed my PhD in 24 hours. My teacher said it was the best PhD he'd ever seen
I started and completed my PhD in 24 hours. My teacher said it was the best PhD he'd ever seen
It was a film class on the Women's Cinema. I wasn't a fan of the professor, and dropped the class online. Or so I thought. The Friday before finals, I got an email with a study guide and reminder of the term paper that was due that upcoming Monday. I thought it was weird that I was getting an email despite dropping the class, so I looked online to find out that I was still enrolled. I went to my counselor to see if there was anything that could be done, but since the drop date was long past - she told me I was shit out of luck. I dug up the syllabus and saw that the only graded thing I had missed was the midterm - which was 20% of the grade. The remaining 80% was split between a comprehensive final and a 18-20 page paper.
We were on the quarter system, and two movies a week were watched. I had missed about 20 movies - and had only seen maybe two of them. They were all pretty obscure, many of which were foreign/independent as fuck/experimental/avant garde type of stuff. Needless to say, there weren't comprehensive summaries for most of this stuff. Anyways, from Friday evening to Monday afternoon - I knocked out a 20 page paper and watched 18 or so movies (and there's articles/reading material for each movie). I had to watch about 6-7 of those movies on 2x + speed because there was literally not enough time prior to the beginning of class to watch them.
I ended up getting a 78% of the class, which is pretty damn good considering the highest possible grade I could get was an 80%
We were on the quarter system, and two movies a week were watched. I had missed about 20 movies - and had only seen maybe two of them. They were all pretty obscure, many of which were foreign/independent as fuck/experimental/avant garde type of stuff. Needless to say, there weren't comprehensive summaries for most of this stuff. Anyways, from Friday evening to Monday afternoon - I knocked out a 20 page paper and watched 18 or so movies (and there's articles/reading material for each movie). I had to watch about 6-7 of those movies on 2x + speed because there was literally not enough time prior to the beginning of class to watch them.
I ended up getting a 78% of the class, which is pretty damn good considering the highest possible grade I could get was an 80%
sans_pants
avec_pénis
Wrote 70 pages of a screenplay in about 8 hours
What on Earth was your doctorate!? Procrastinology?
oreomunsta
Banned
I procrastinated on studying for a big-deal physics midterm that I had in university, so I glanced at Gauge transformations for all of 10 seconds.
Turned out that a large majority of the test was Gauge, and nothing but Gauge. I derived Gauge transformations, in the middle of the midterm, and proceeded to pass that test with flying colors.
I hit my peak that day, and will never be as smart as that again
Turned out that a large majority of the test was Gauge, and nothing but Gauge. I derived Gauge transformations, in the middle of the midterm, and proceeded to pass that test with flying colors.
I hit my peak that day, and will never be as smart as that again
PaddyOCanager
Member
I put off a 20 page grad school paper with a 15 minute presentation until the day it was due. Woke up at 7am, turned it in and presented to the class at 7pm. Got an A on it, but probably lost five years life expectancy due to stress and energy drink consumption.
5 assignments in 10 hours.
11000 word finance paper on financial technology
1 Financial Modelling assignment involving integrated financial statements on excel
1 500 Word Financial memo for said course
1 Financial valuation of a company on excel
1 500 Word financial memo for said course
2000 word research paper (10 pages double spaced) in 6 hours.
11000 word finance paper on financial technology
1 Financial Modelling assignment involving integrated financial statements on excel
1 500 Word Financial memo for said course
1 Financial valuation of a company on excel
1 500 Word financial memo for said course
2000 word research paper (10 pages double spaced) in 6 hours.
falconxcrunner09
Member
AI java project on learning/neural networking was due the next day. Spent 12 hours straight that day with 8 other people, all of us got 100s.
Reckless Abandon
Member
I once finished a several page paper that was due like the next morning and saved it on my university network drive but accidentally deleted it when trying to change the filename. After panicking and calling the IT department I was told I was out of luck, that it was gone.
So I asked my friend taking the same class to let me peep his and I worked up another one pretty fast which was pretty much just a modified version of his. Thankfully it worked, though I felt bad about plagiarizing. But I had to get that in on the due date...
So I asked my friend taking the same class to let me peep his and I worked up another one pretty fast which was pretty much just a modified version of his. Thankfully it worked, though I felt bad about plagiarizing. But I had to get that in on the due date...
TheSpoiler
Member
Five minutes before failing a class, I changed the file extension on my laptop right outside the door. Teacher couldn't open it and, since it was the weekend, told me to turn it in by hand the following Monday.
Also wrote a five page paper on a subject I had no idea about during the lecture. Right before the class was over I smashed that into the teacher's inbox. Had to keep stalling by asking inane questions. My classmates caught on and were doing the same as I was.
Also wrote a five page paper on a subject I had no idea about during the lecture. Right before the class was over I smashed that into the teacher's inbox. Had to keep stalling by asking inane questions. My classmates caught on and were doing the same as I was.
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