I managed to fail one of my finals (17%), so there's that.

I have repeatedly signed up for mafia games that overlap with finals.

Who has finals after sophomore year?

I went into Calculus 2 with an F and came out with a B; but I think that's the opposite of not giving a shit so I lose again

Back when I was a grad student, the professor, I was a teaching assistant for his class, took the TAs out for beer on him at the local bar to celebrate the class being over as a reward. I was doing a final, so I missed out, however another TA told me about it. Since I wasn't there he had to drink my share of the 4 pitchers. He kept guilting me about his hangover until the one time he admitted the professor hadn't ordered all the pitchers at once, but ordered more as my friend finished them.

The first time I ever got drunk was the day before my precalc final in high school. I just went crazy on a Monday night. Safe to say I failed that final but still pulled a B- in the class because it was precalc in high school, lol...

I also sent a story privately.

What's with all this private story nonsense?

I don't know why, but I guess they don't want everyone to know that they did stupid things too.

I am more upset that someone locked the spam thread before I could make that awful oil painting joke for the thousandth time.

I considered it, but I thought it'd be improper of me.

...is there a standard oil painting joke for these spambots?

I have finals next week. Unfortunately, I'm still trying to finish all the homework due tomorrow, so I haven't even thought about studying yet.

I'll be writing my first final exam this weekend.

The cleaner at our office has a hilarious story about not giving a damn about these things. I'll have to ask him to tell it again...

I be killin the finals this week.

rojimy1123: There are a couple notable cases of unusual products getting advertised on the forum.

Octavious: You're an asshole.

I love you too, JECE.

Ohhhh hahaha, it was a joke about poor people, haha, good one ol' sport, haha ha ha ha... ha.......

No... It was a joke about lazy intelligent people... Just like this is a joke thread about privileged people in education who don't give a fuck haha ha ha ha... ha......

Clearly your comment was very supportive of these "lazy intelligent people" and office cleaners alike.

Yeah, it is. I got a lucky draw, eh?

No one yet has missed a final because they were too drunk or cheated by growing dreadlocks and braiding the answers into their hair on paper yet, so no one has won so far.

The only thing implied in my comment is that office cleaners hold few educational qualifications. Do you wish to debate that implication, JECE?

Get a room.

Octavious: No, you implied more than that. But as matter of fact, yes, you are wrong. Especially with immigrants, their prior education lands them few opportunities. You've never met a taxi cab driver, janitor, etc. with a degree?

@ JECE

Nope

Lol, have you ever asked? It's quite common here. One of the cleaners in my hall has a science degree from my school. He's just down on his luck and won't be here in a few years.

I very rarely use taxis because I'm not posh. And yes, I'm on first name terms with my office cleaners. One is currently studying for a qualification in child care, one is retired and is cleaning for extra cash for his grandchildren. None have degrees

Sample size = 2
Asshole = 1
Compassion = 0

Yeah, Octavious, I bet you can find two prominent business owners without degrees too. It's not uncommon not to have a degree, especially if you can be described as a grandfather. Necessity of a degree is a relatively new thing.

I have a great ongoing story right now but I can't tell it quite yet. It involves a laxative, a hospital, and a lot of ladybugs. I'll let you wonder.

Anyone else got something?

I am a professor. My students tell some really interesting stories sometimes. But as I teach
on CS not fiction, they still fail....

Taxis are only posh if you never move outside of your privilige circle. In most of the world, they're the norm.

I once had a taxi driver with a PhD in nuclear physics. Then the Soviet Union crashed. Now he drives taxis. Great guy.

Bo - whilst you may think me a moron, I will give you the advice I always give my children and others regrading education.

I always advise that all education does is give you choices. If you work hard and pass it gives you more choices in life. You can still decide how your life then proceeds, you may wish to form a band or become a struggling painter in Paris but that will then be a choice which you may want to reconsider later. Getting a good education allows you more choices and allows you to reconsider you life later.

Sober up for a while, there is plenty of time in life to get drunk.

Eh, it's not like I'm always drunk. I don't know how I worked around getting in so much trouble the other day though.

My only "not giving a fuck" story about finals is my second semester at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. I had gotten in as a second year student straight out of high school pursuing a masters degree of Mathematics in their 5-year program. Sounds great and brainy, right?

Unfortunately, that second semester was full of classes with mathematical concepts I couldn't wrap my head around. Several Variable calculus was easy. Discrete Programming and Game Theory made sense, even Lagrange Relaxations. But Fourier Series and the rest of my partial differential equations coursework just didn't fit in my head. So, after stressing, trying to study those for 2 days and making no progress whatsoever, I said, "Fuck this, I'm not getting this at all." So I stopped trying to learn anything on that subject, instead going over material I understood (almost entirely in other classes).

So the next day I walked into the final knowing I would fail and just being completely done with the subject. Of the 10 questions that made up the test, I vaguely attempted to do 4, and only felt fairly confident about 2. That done, I stood up, handed my exam in and left. I think I actually got a 30% on the exam. I forget. But, as partial diff EQ is required, and I was kind of sick of the weird curriculum anyways, I decided to change majors, and since I had only gone to University of Edinburgh for Mathematics in the first place, change schools.

I haven't taken a single math class since, and now I'm graduating with a BA in English in less than a week, which brings my higher education time to nine semesters if you include one that I withdrew from for health reasons, and eight if you don't.

Now I just need to leverage my personal connections with bestselling authors into an editing job and my story will be complete. That and actually finish the two papers I'm sitting on in order to pass my last classes.

Good Luck to everyone else in their finals.

bo: You're degree should only matter for a few years after graduation...say five to ten. Beyond that, if your professional accomplishments don't outweigh your schooling, you wasted money on the latter.

My school costs me nothing, so that won't be hard to accomplish I wouldn't think. Lucky me.

I basically spent Sunday night drinking my ass off, Monday night playing pool with a bunch of friends, and Tuesday making out in my room. I'm yet to study for my exam on Friday. Good start.