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Most Pointless Assignments Ever

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CabbyArrant
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What are the most pointless assignments you have ever had to do for school?



I'll get it started-

At the beginning of the semester I had to predict who would win the Oscars for an English assignment.

I also had to write a 200 page ethnography as a semester project my final semester of Highschool.


I fucking hate english
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Mingg
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CabbyArrantI'm really regretting taking chem 2 this semester I have an A in my four other classes so instead of a 4.0 I'm going to get 3.4 since I have a C. Which is stupid because I don't even need to take Chem 2


Damn that sucks! Is it like a 4 or 5 credit course as well? That's crazy that it pulls your grade down so much. Luckily colleges have like your prereq/major GPA and then overall GPA otherwise I'd look like a much bigger idiot than I actually am haha.
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CabbyArrant
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MinggDamn that sucks! Is it like a 4 or 5 credit course as well? That's crazy that it pulls your grade down so much. Luckily colleges have like your prereq/major GPA and then overall GPA otherwise I'd look like a much bigger idiot than I actually am haha.

I'm in community college so it hurts my GPA for transfer purposes which i shouldn't have taken it in the first place because it's only going to count as an elective towards my degree. Chem isn't necessary for computer engineers
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CabbyArrant
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LonelyS.A.T had a calculator, but could take the derivative much faster than it would have taken me to plug into a calculator and do the long way. Saved me time on the test. There's many aspects of Calculas you will never use, but having the understanding can help in other ways


Why would you need a calculator to take a derivative? Unless you are actually plugging a value into the derivative I feel you don't need a calculator
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connecticunt
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DeforestationWhat would make you "have to go there"? I mean there are a buch of schools in the area... Fairfield U??


I was set to go to Washington state but I had some health issues and had to stay close to home, plus I got recruited there for sports
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brett_fisher
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I have to do a paper on what i want to be then shadow/interview someone in the that carrier but don't really know what i want to do I'm in the 8th grade and they want me to know what i want to do.
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Mingg
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shadow a male stripper/hooker
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Mingg
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brett_fisherI have to do a paper on what i want to be then shadow/interview someone in the that carrier but don't really know what i want to do I'm in the 8th grade and they want me to know what i want to do.


Minggshadow a male stripper/hooker


wait wtf i did not quote otto... i quoted brett... is otto even in this thread? what the hell just happened?
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Mingg
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now my post isn't showing up... i think i broke NS. I'm so sorry
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OregonDead
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My first semester in college I got placed in a class to satisfy my English requirement and the whole class was just us editing the teachers draft for the book she was working on. She made us buy her first book which was awful but never really used in in class even though she made it seem like it would be a requirement. Our only assignments were to proof read her work and then turn it back in with any corrections. At the end of the term there was know way to know what she based our grades on. The girl that was the biggest suck-up ended up getting talked into "interning" and proof reading her next 2 books for free.
The hardbound book I paid a small fortune for now sells for $1.44 on Amazon.
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dyer
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English because we're watching 3 movies in that class right now
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littleman34
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my teacher somehow fell for one of those scams on how to lose weight in a week where they r just trying to sell a book with the "3 easy steps to become skinny" or whatever. Anyway she made us all write about how great this was. I spoke my mind and said I thought it was bullshit and she gave me a 0 and i had to re-do it
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Jesse_
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Panta.PowOne of my friends in middle school would always disrespect this really assholish english teacher who was a purebred feminist who would start every class pointing out how women did this this and this and didn't get recognized or how women can do X, Y and Z better than men ect etc.
Now my friend wasn't the type to get pushed around like that and would constantly talk back. (Note - he believes men are better than women at everything and that women have smaller brains, are stupider and should not be allowed to vote or drive)
Anyways, she assigns him a 500 word essay on why women are better than men for the next week.
He shows up to class the next week with a 50 page essay where he explains from A to Z all possible ways in which men are better than women. It's citing research from the 70's up to the 2010's. He didn't just copy and paste shit online, he literally read a book published in the 1900's by a Neuroscientists and quotes passages from it (On the Mental Inferiority of Women). He hands this in and the day after the english teacher goes mental on him and while screaming kicks him out of the class.

He got suspended for a week and banned from english class.


That is legendary
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spliff.Life
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gypsy_kidmy teacher somehow fell for one of those scams on how to lose weight in a week where they r just trying to sell a book with the "3 easy steps to become skinny" or whatever. Anyway she made us all write about how great this was. I spoke my mind and said I thought it was bullshit and she gave me a 0 and i had to re-do it


is your teacher fat?
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littleman34
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spliff.Lifeis your teacher fat?


no quite the opposite she is very skinny. I think she needs to gain weight
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aiden516
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My english teacher is so bad. I'm pretty sure she's only like 45 or something but she looks like she's close to 80. It's just that she makes her class so boring that nobody listens to her anymore and so she gets no respect. When she does manage to control the class somewhat it's only to talk about the book that we hate reading but she loves the book.

Oh and I happen to be writing this in english class as well which just shows that it's the most pointless class
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DirtYStylE
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Jesse_That is legendary


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