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Ste150
04-09-2005, 06:23 PM
Equipment needed:
1 (or more) piece(s) of homework. Preferably due in the next day, or late.
1 Computer
1 Internet forum
1 IRC Client
1 TV
5+ Bottles of fizzy drink
5+ snacks such as crisps, biscuits, chocolate muffins.

Preparation:
Remove all bread, milk and other necessary items from your kitchen the several days before homework is due in.
Change password for XP the day before, and forget it again prior to following this guide.

Method:

Step 1 – Waking Up:
Get out of bed far later than you meant to, by forgetting to set your alarm. For best results with this step, aim to rise from your pit at some point past mid-day.
When awake, stagger into the kitchen and attempt to get some cereal for breakfast. If you have prepared correctly, you will find you have no milk, thus making the fabrication of a bowl of cereal difficult.
After this, you must find that toast and all other conventional breakfast items are also out of the question, so grab a bottle of coke (or similar) and head back to your room.

Step 2 – Booting up the PC:
Press the power button on your PC. If all goes well, you should see a welcome screen after a moment. Again, if you have prepared well, you will be able to waste half an hour or more, trying to guess your password, cursing yourself for choosing an alphanumeric string rather than a whole word. Damn security.
After wasting as much time as possible, re-boot your PC in safe mode and log onto the now-available administrator account and re-set you password.

Step 3 – Starting your home work.
Open up all necessary applications onto your task bar. These include Word, PowerPoint, mIRC, Firefox (aimed at weebls-stuff fourms.), MSN etc etc.
At this point, you will see you have several emails, and should pause for at least 20 mins to read and sort them into appropriate folders. Next, you Should go to Word and start to type out your essay, writing the title before realising you never connected to the IRC server.
Do this now.

Step 4 – The rest of the day

With IRC connected, proceed to spend the whole day talking on it, with periodic drink and snack breaks.
You may also want to break up the day by typing a few sentences of your essay. But not so much as to constitute a finished piece of work.

Also, having the TV on while ‘working’ is a great help. For best results, sport is recommended. Such as an international football or cricket match.

Step 5 – Shit yourself about un finished essay.
Start worrying.
Come onto a forum and type out how you wasted your day in a light-hearted semi-scientific way.


That is all.

RobW
04-09-2005, 06:25 PM
Wow, My whole life flashed before me in the form of a thread.


:gasp:

Tiode
04-09-2005, 06:26 PM
Heh

Penguin Pimp
04-09-2005, 06:27 PM
I must say... Swish!!!

Inverse
04-09-2005, 06:31 PM
You jsut desribed today. But with added IRC; less breakfast; and more computer ballsing up.

Private Bob
04-09-2005, 06:31 PM
Nice one, I think I shall take your advice...

Ste150
04-09-2005, 07:39 PM
I've nearly finished my essay now.
Almost
Kinda

Preasure
04-09-2005, 08:05 PM
This thread almost exactly describes my whole damn holiday. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to scream.

Youlikeyams?
04-09-2005, 08:06 PM
Sounds like my computing class in a way...

T3-X
04-09-2005, 08:19 PM
This accurately depicts my lifestyle, but as for essays, I have the innate ability to pull things out of my ass, and teachers never seem to be able to call my buff. (Don't believe me? Look at my previous replies)

Woloch
05-09-2005, 03:38 AM
truer words have never been penned, except in my case, change "chat on irc" to "watch anime" and you've got the reason why I hardly do any work before 1:00 AM.

how I am still managing to suceed in school is an absolute mystery.

Sorcha
05-09-2005, 07:11 AM
That sounds like my life.

It's really depressing. :(

T3-X
05-09-2005, 07:16 AM
You should embrace your laziness. Some people can't control themselves when it comes to working

Ste150
05-09-2005, 01:39 PM
Yay!

Finished Essays For Teh W1N!

(i finished my essay :))

TX_101
05-09-2005, 01:47 PM
Surprisingly, this thread is coming at a time when I'm supposed to be doing a very large case study for my biology class. I go back to school tommorrow and have had the entireity of the summer holidays to do it.

I havn't started yet, perhaps you should write another guide, "how to not do your homework for 7 weeks" .. ?

second thoughts, I'd better get started soon... :yarr:

Ste150
05-09-2005, 01:50 PM
I'm currently writing another guide. Will be done by tnite hopefully.
And.... good luck with that biology..

Bob Todd
05-09-2005, 04:56 PM
That's the story of my life re: coursework. I got a U and and E for my last two pieces (that's not a boast; it made me sad, because I didn't think they were that bad).

This thread reminds me of something I wrote a couple of years ago:
Excuses for not doing homework:
- I did do it, I just didn't write it down.
- I don't have a home to do it in.
- I'm too dim! *cry hysterically*
- I thought it was due in for next week [this was actually quite a common one at my college].
- My little brother ate it.
- It was so good I had to rip it up to prevent it being stolen.
- I mistook the paper shredder for a copier when I went to photocopy my notes for a friend.
- I ran out of toilet paper...
- *hand over a blank piece of paper* I wrote it in invisible ink.
- I refuse to conform to your slavish rules and routines!
- I'm not [name], I'm his/her evil twin!
- *stare blankly and drool* Me... kill... YOU!
- I'm a llama!
- DON'T PATRONISE ME!
- It rained so hard this morning that I had to fold it into an origami boat so I could get across the puddles.
- I was too busy saving the world.
- I could give it to you. But then I'd have to kill you.
- I'm a masochist: I want to fail my course.
- *put hands on ears* Aaargh! It's those voices again! *assume foetal position and gibber*
- I rolled it up to snort crack, and the police seized it as evidence. My case comes up on Thursday.

Or you may get lucky and find that your teachers just don't care. When I was doing my geography GCSE (yes, they are getting easier - I got A*, Ax2, Bx5, C and D without revising) my initial coursework submission came back with a C on it. I didn't bother improving it (I didn't even erase the teacher's pencilled notes) and handed it back in again when the final deadline came. I got a B for it.

Ste150
05-09-2005, 05:14 PM
my initial coursework submission came back with a C on it. I didn't bother improving it (I didn't even erase the teacher's pencilled notes) and handed it back in again when the final deadline came. I got a B for it.

That has happend so much with me.
Teacher expects you to improve, so they jsut mark it up over time. Its a classic.

TX_101
05-09-2005, 05:37 PM
Yep, when they first mark courseworks they deliberatly mark them a grade or so below to encourage you to improve, even if it's pretty much perfect already.

Preasure
05-09-2005, 07:10 PM
Finally got mine done today, which is just as well as we go back tomorrow. I practically have to unplug the mouse to stop me getting distracted and going on the net.

TX_101
05-09-2005, 07:52 PM
Finally got mine done today, which is just as well as we go back tomorrow. I practically have to unplug the mouse to stop me getting distracted and going on the net.

I normally do mine on the computer, whih both removes that problem and makes it much worse ! (if that makes any sense)

Preasure
05-09-2005, 07:54 PM
Yeah, I would too, I can type faster than writing neat, but some stupid rule says that some of my coursework has to be handwritten. And I had to leave it until the long stuff, didnt I?

Ste150
05-09-2005, 07:57 PM
Genius preasure, absolute genius.

I want to try getting one of those "your handwriting as a font" things and trying to pass it off as handwritten.

Knowing my school; it would be very easy.

Un4gvn0
06-09-2005, 02:13 AM
Stevo, I don't know who you are, but I'm suing you for intellectual property theft.

I've been doing that for years... just not on Weebl forums... heh, guess it's time the world learned what us procrastinators do all day.

BandGeek
06-09-2005, 03:07 AM
Genius preasure, absolute genius.

I want to try getting one of those "your handwriting as a font" things and trying to pass it off as handwritten.

Knowing my school; it would be very easy.

:notworthy I should totally do that... It would work miracles... No More HAND CRAMPS!
(This is vital to my life.) :notworthy

crab
06-09-2005, 09:06 AM
MIND READER.

:zoidberg:

Jam_Hunter
06-09-2005, 11:02 AM
The pretty much describes my day, except I only manage the essay title. Then I become glued to the magical telly box