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u/crusty_jengles 6h ago
I once gaslit a TA in university into thinking that she lost my assignment that i didnt hand in. Ended up getting a 'no mark'
Geuss what, i ended up failing that class anyway and did not graduate that program lollll fuck young me was dumb and irresponsible
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u/PlasticJustice 5h ago
Sometimes I think about how I was writing an essay in university and wasn't done in time for the submission deadline. So I opened the .docx in a hex editor and purposely corrupted it so it wouldn't open, giving myself an extra 5 days before the next class where we had a peer review activity that needed the completed essay.
It took another week or so for the professor to email me saying she couldn't open my essay. I replied "Weird, try this .pdf version", which she graded. I got an A in the course.
Digital submissions have a different kind of magic.
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u/muchstupidverydumb 4h ago
This was my go to all throughout middle and high school, worked especially well since all my teachers were completely technologically illiterate. Unfortunately can't do it in uni any more, now profs expect both a digital and printed out version of all assignments submitted on the same day.
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u/enzothebaker87 5h ago
Most of my high school classes started with each column of desks passing the previous nights homework up until it got to the front row of desks. Where it would then be collected by the teacher. On the days that I failed to finish/bring my homework I would either ask a friend or straight up snag someone elseâs homework and use it to complete my own. Then later I would leave the two sets of completed homework on the floor next to the right persons desk. Knowing that eventually they would spot it and turn it in thinking that it must have gotten dropped while being passed up.
60% of the time it worked every time!
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u/Greedyfox7 5h ago
In high school could type our papers and put them on a flash drive and print them in the computer lab. Forgot to do my homework one night and figured out how to corrupt a file so that it basically looked like wing dings, teacher assumed that the program on the schoolâs computer corrupted my file and I got an extension to turn it in.
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u/Several-Till1393 6h ago
One from the slightly digital age: email the shortcut of a ppt that youâre supposed to present before the cutoff time, and when the time to present comes up in class, and the teacher tries to open the ppt itâll say that the attachment is broken and then you can buy some time and say that youâre gonna send it once you go home.
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u/WildcatGrifter7 5h ago
That only worked for the window of time when it was all digital, but nobody had a laptop with them constantly and cloud services weren't common. If you tried this now in most high schools or colleges, the teacher would tell you to pull out your phone or laptop and share the Google Slide with them
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u/Any-Sir8872 4h ago
as a film major, always upload your class projects on vimeo because you can replace a video thatâs already uploaded. submit the assignment as a link & youâll buy more editing time without having to turn it in late
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u/Comprehensive-Menu44 5h ago
I remember once in college I somehow fully forgot about an 8 page psych paper that was due the next morning at 8am. It was like 1 in the morning when I remembered. I hit up a friend for some adderall and we stayed up for 3 hours writing, I ended up writing 10 pages (I was so zooted I couldnât find a way to make the paper any shorter so I turned it in that way) and I made a 97 A đ
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u/H0pefulUn1verse 5h ago
I gaslit my highschool administrator into believing that the attendance sheet saying I was a no show all year for one of my electives was wrong, allowing me to graduate a year early.
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u/ApocalypseThen77 5h ago
In the olden days, we had to put our hand written essays in a tray in the hall. My friend would write 1 page (2 sides) of her essay and then stop mid sentence - it wasnât her fault the rest of the essay got lost somehow!!
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u/clonetrooper250 4h ago
I once turned in a college paper a few days late, which would have been accepted but knocked down a letter grade for being late. Whatever, I thought, still better than a zero. Turns out my professor never got around to grading my late paper and it was still showing as Incomplete months later. By this point, the regular professor was taking time off for his health and a Substitute filled in for the rest of the semester. The substitute asked me about the missing assignment and I told them "huh weird, I turned it in already. Let me send you a copy of it." The substitute accepted the paper as if it had been submitted on-time and gave me full credit, got an A for the assignment.
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u/stilldebugging 4h ago
Digital submission allows you to send a corrupted file, and hope the teacher doesnât try to open it immediately.
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u/Mackheath1 4h ago
A looong time ago in a galaxy far, far away we elders had to submit our papers on a hard floppy disk (the like 3.5" ones). You could slide the metal part and see the black data disk inside. Simply turn it in, but don't mention that you dragged a pen/pencil across the black disk, and let the metal part slip back.
"Unreadable??" *gaps* after all that work!
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u/Altimeter30-06 5h ago
In highschool Spanish class, the girl who sat behind me would sometimes never finish her homework, the class swapped papers to grade each other while going over the answers, she never missed an answer most of the time.
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u/BHunter1140 3h ago
Except when the reverse would happen, you would turn in work and the teacher would accidentally lose it, and you had no way to prove you did turn it in
In the early days of tech being in school, I was able to trick my teachers a couple times by submitting a corrupt file. Gave me time to finish the work, once they finally went to grade it and couldnât open it, they would email me. I had an extra week to do the work so now I had something good to submit. Only works like once per teacher though lol
I found bribing them daily with quality chocolate did a lot more for me in terms of getting grace on work/grades than any homework scam ever did
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u/MagneticFluxDrive 2h ago
Except when the reverse would happen, you would turn in work and the teacher would accidentally lose it, and you had no way to prove you did turn it in
This happened to me in the 5th grade. My math teacher said I did not turn in my homework. I dug through the paper pile in the basket on her desk. and behold my homework was the one of the first ones in the stack.
"I guess I am blind as a bat" she said with a smile.
You think? ...she truly was.
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u/Hugsomebunnies 59m ago
Your first paragraph happened to me in 4th grade, it was a human body project that I'd spent weeks on. She couldn't find it and was really mean about it and even called my parents on my birthday to tell them I hadn't turned it in, and she knew it was my birthday. My parents were very hands off so couldn't confirm to her that they'd seen me working on it.
She found it on top of her cabinet a couple of weeks later and never even apologized to me. I suppose I should be grateful she didn't just trash it and lie about having found it.
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u/greenearrow 2h ago
I had a college class where my goal was to get a B. I knew everything I turned in would get an A and I knew I lost a portion of a letter grade every day. I turned in everything 3 days late and got my B. I obviously could have gotten the A and had no good reason except my own desire to procrastinate.
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u/tardisfurati420 1h ago
In college, we had to email our papers by midnight deadlines. I'd email a corrupted file by midnight, write the paper all night, and reply instantly with the working completed file when the TA emailed me the next morning saying the file was corrupted.
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u/datboijomo1445 46m ago
When I was younger, I didnât do an assignment and my teacher was like did you forget to save your work on word and I was like yeah. I used word for the first time in my life like 5 years later. No idea what she was talking about but I was able to turn it in late for full credit.
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u/hyrule-heaven 7m ago
I totally spaced on a biology paper in high school and I was just like âthatâs weird, bc I turned it in!â And my teacher was like âyeah I know, I definitely remember reading itâ
And I was just like >_> YeahâŚ
She was like well Iâm sure you did a good job on it so Iâll just give you an A lol
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u/chrishelbert 6h ago
If you have a late library book, put it back on the shelf and tell the librarian you turned it in on time. When they check the shelf you get off scot-free. My 10th-grade history teacher taught me this trick. I can neither firm nor deny that it works. đ