M.C. Hampster's Journal: Homework

You know, there's no better feeling in the world than writing up a two page mathematical proof.

Oh wait, there is: every other feeling that exists

Yeah, I'm doing homework and I'm bitter.

So what is the worst homework assignment you ever received?

I've blocked out all those painful memories.

[insanecarbonbasedlif]

Sorry.

No, you haven't

[Ethelred Unraed]

Boo!

Cheers,

Ethelred

The worst?

[WhiskerTheMad]

Copying pages from a history textbook. Seriously. In the 5th grade, that was one of our regular assignments. Word-for-word copying. I still have nightmares.

Ouch [n/t]

[M.C. Hampster]

Re:The worst?

[nizo]

Ohh, not really homework, but I used to get in trouble alot in the 4th grade (not sure why, just hated the teacher I guess). Anyway she would make me write crap over and over. First it was 100 times, and then 500 times, and then it was pages (I think I got up to 10 pages, front and back). I don't remember any except the last one: "I will not push people in chairs." for pushing a kid around in her chair (it had wheels on it, what else would it be good for???)

Tie

[gmhowell]

I can't pick between two.

When in the third grade reading class (while I was in 2nd grade, BTW) we had to answer questions from these crappy stories. But I couldn't answer a question like "what is the main character's dog's name" by saying "ralph". I had to write out "the main character's dog's name is Ralph". That's horseshit. It didn't help my handwriting, consisted of busywork, and kept me from doing anything enjoyable.

The other category that sucked was EVERY assignment in my college Calculus 2 class. W

Worst ever

[dead sun]

So, I had a Mathmatical Logic with this dinosaur prof who was kinda out of it. Gave out a syllabus which said we'd have X number of assignments in the semester, worth Y percent of the grade. Great, fine. With under a month to go in the semester we'd received one of the eight or so assignments. Wonderful, except we were all nervous. So at the end of class, the day before Thanksgiving break, one of my classmates asks about getting another assignment.

The prof goes ballistic. "You want work, fine I'll give you

Easily College Physics

[TechnoLust]

halfway through the semester, we were given individual homework assignments that were supposedly "curved" to fit our aptitude. So if you weren't great in physics, it might be "Build and experiment to prove that refraction occurs when light travels from one medium to another." If you were really good in the class they were a lot harder. Mine was, "Disprove the general theory of relativity." Conceptualizing was the easy part. Finding an adequate power supply for me Faster Than Light engine was the hard p

Hardest assignment

[GoRK]

In 7th grade science class we were doing some "biology" which normally, to seventh graders is fairly straightforward. However, we had an assignment to work on over the course of a marking period (6 weeks) that at the time was the largest amount of homework any of the people in the class had ever had to do, and I think, although I have written longer and more difficult papers, this ranks more difficult for me because it was a 7th grade.

The teacher gave us a list of general classifications for organisms.. Ie