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So, I am sitting here writing a small five page paper due in a few hours, and I was thinking, "Hey why not procrastinate a bit more, and post on NS" So voila, here am I! So, ITT, you tells us about hardest assignments you've ever had to do, either for work or school.

For me, it was a 20 pager last year for my American Foreign Policy class. I forgot all about it until the night before...and I managed to get at 20 pages done in one night, and I end up getting a "B" for my grade(for you non-USers, a common grading school in America is the A B C D E/F grading scale,with A being the highest and E or F being the lowest. So I received a rather decent mark for that) That was probably the hardest thing I have had to do, not because of length, but because I had no idea what to do it on, so I made up this peace proposal for the entire middle east.

I started and finished a powerpoint presentation on the ECOWAS the morning it was due and got a 1 on it.

I have a 10 page essay on "the alliterative outline used in this class to study the biblical narrative".....wth does that even mean? lol

Meh, I once had to do some papers about some films for my oral exams history and aesthetics, together with some other stuff. But I only started them the day before the exam, and they sucked, I almost failed on the exam.

now I have to do a paper on: "the tonus (tone?) of the myocardium: a new player in the diastolic heart function" or something like that. I still have a few months.

I would say filling in book-size application forms in block capitals has proved itself to be a greater challenge

I made up this peace proposal for the entire middle east.

did it work?

(for you non-USers, a common grading school in America is the A B C D E/F grading scale,with A being the highest and E or F being the lowest. So I received a rather decent mark for that)

Yeah, we have the same system here. In fact, even if it wasn't present in your schools, you'd have to have been living in a cave all your life to not have heard about the A-F grading system.

If your peace proposal didn't involve tacos, then I'm afraid it won't work. :(

I once had to write a 10 page paper on Le Temps de Secrets by Marcel Pagnol when I was going to school in France. Writing the paper wasn't so difficult, it was reading the damned book because I found it dreadfully boring. Not only that, but we had to hand-write the damned thing rather than type it and since my handwriting is terrible it took me about an hour and a half to copy it from my laptop legibly.

Well right now I'm writing up a business plan for my Technology management class.

I can't think of any particularly hard assignments I've has since high school.

If your peace proposal didn't involve tacos, then I'm afraid it won't work. :(If your tacos involve pork, I'm afraid they won't work either.

I helped my son with his homework last night. Take a fairytale and rework it. He choose 'Goldilocks and the three bears'. My suggestion of re-titling it to 'Bear gold and the three locks' did not go down well.

I have a 10 page essay on "the alliterative outline used in this class to study the biblical narrative".....wth does that even mean? lol

i dunno but i hope you kept the outline!

or if you didnt, you have to figure out what outline he was using.

try sneaking a peak at his lecture notes.

did it work?

Of course! Now where is my Nobel Peace Prize?

Calculus. Any calculus problem is harder than writing all the papers you can think of.

Calculus. Any calculus problem is harder than writing all the papers you can think of.

I find calc itself not terribly difficult but the word problem bullshit immensely frustrating and annoying.

I had a nice ten or fifteen (can remember, may have been twelve come to think of it) page paper that needed fifteen sources, with ten from a college library. Oh, that was fun. Nothing like feeling completely out of place in an unknown area. Learned a lot about Goethe, though.

I find calc itself not terribly difficult but the word problem bullshit immensely frustrating and annoying.

Oddly enough, with math the things that bothered me least were the word problems. Oh, how I hate math.

hardest thing at uni was when i had graded essays (ie they counted towards my final grade) due for all six of my modules at the same time, each due in the same week. i didn't start any of them until the weekend before, cos i was too busy getting high, (and one was due next day...), and after starting i realised that many of them i had no books/reference for, the libraries were closed for the weekend, and on attempting to get out appropriate research volumes on the monday, i found pretty much everything relavent had been taken out already :headbang:

somehow i did it all, waffling a lot, and managed to get A's and B's in all of them.

first year of uni was really too easy, tbh. i didn't go to any lectures or anything for 2 out of 6 modules and passed them without revision at the end of the year. the rest were passed with minimal (seriously minimal) revision, all while clinically depressed and in hospital throughout the exam period :p


since starting work, that essay week actually doesn't seem too bad now :(

Ugh. Stupid thing to list as hard, but I am really stuck for stuff to put on this poster about ricin toxin I'm supposed to be doing now.

The hardest one was writing a 15 page Political Socialization Autobiography. It was (if you can't guess) a complete fluff piece of amateur-level self-analysis, which should have made it real easy. The main problem I had was that I really, really hate writing about myself. Without the words of some dead European guy to hide my opinions behind, I feel naked.

The longest one was 20 pages on Gender Politics and Female Mysticism during the Middle Ages, or something like that. I got an A, which was pretty impressive since I have no idea what I wrote, and still (7 months after the fact) haven't gotten up the guts to try reading it.

Hardest for me so far has been the escalation of censorship in modern U.S media. The only hard part is reading through all of those Supreme Court documents that tend to drag on forever.

The 20,000 word technical write-up for my final year (software engineering) project was started and completed in the last two days.

I got pretty good marks for it too!

So, I am sitting here writing a small five page paper due in a few hours, and I was thinking, "Hey why not procrastinate a bit more, and post on NS" So voila, here am I! So, ITT, you tells us about hardest assignments you've ever had to do, either for work or school.



whats does ITT mean?

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70 page engineering professional report that had to be bind and covered and printed off nicely with all formats according to some formatting sheet and has to be formal. That report was a pain in the ass.

*pounds head against table* Okay, now that the physical pain has begun ...
I'm a chemical engineering student. I also happen to play the tuba in the university band. We had a problem for class where we were to size piping and select pumps based on pressure drops and friction (and don't even ask me to explain it). I'd been working on it for two weeks. I was due in one day. I had a band concert that evening. Do you see where this is going already?
Well, I played the concert, went back over to the engineering building, finished it at 3 in the morning, went back to the dorm and fell asleep for four hours, and made it to all my classes the next day. I didn't even sleep in any.
That was one example; I could have picked from about fifty. Engineers are supreme masochists (those of us who aren't alcoholic, and I'm not an alcoholic).

I have had a few

School:
Thesis on tcp performance over wireless and adaptation methods
That one was over 100 pages

Work:
There are many the biggest currently is a 136 million record MSSQL replication. (that has been 2 weeks in the working)
The hardest I can think of overall was a 1000 user and domain migration for a series of eye clinics which took over 4 months to complete at about 6 hours a day by me and 3 other people (I was head of server and domain design as well as software and lan side networking, we had one wan network specialist and an exchange guy with me)

So, I am sitting here writing a small five page paper due in a few hours, and I was thinking, "Hey why not procrastinate a bit more, and post on NS" So voila, here am I! So, ITT, you tells us about hardest assignments you've ever had to do, either for work or school.

For me, it was a 20 pager last year for my American Foreign Policy class. I forgot all about it until the night before...and I managed to get at 20 pages done in one night, and I end up getting a "B" for my grade(for you non-USers, a common grading school in America is the A B C D E/F grading scale,with A being the highest and E or F being the lowest. So I received a rather decent mark for that) That was probably the hardest thing I have had to do, not because of length, but because I had no idea what to do it on, so I made up this peace proposal for the entire middle east.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I have a project due in several hours and I'm procrastinating here...

I gotta take notes on newsweek

I wrote 20 pages on Wireless Network Security in three days. Thank god I had my manual on me, otherwise I would've been screwed.

I wrote 20 pages on Wireless Network Security in three days. Thank god I had my manual on me, otherwise I would've been screwed.

Hmmm I did not know you are a fellow geek ... my masters thesis for networking was in wireless network performance and various performance increases (like snoop and split tcp)

As well as an experimental MTP protocol


*hugs fellow networking geek* (or hopes you are one)

So, I am sitting here writing a small five page paper due in a few hours, and I was thinking, "Hey why not procrastinate a bit more, and post on NS" So voila, here am I! So, ITT, you tells us about hardest assignments you've ever had to do, either for work or school.

For me, it was a 20 pager last year for my American Foreign Policy class. I forgot all about it until the night before...and I managed to get at 20 pages done in one night, and I end up getting a "B" for my grade(for you non-USers, a common grading school in America is the A B C D E/F grading scale,with A being the highest and E or F being the lowest. So I received a rather decent mark for that) That was probably the hardest thing I have had to do, not because of length, but because I had no idea what to do it on, so I made up this peace proposal for the entire middle east.

I've never heard of "E" being used. I always thought it was A-B-C-D-F.

The hardest one was writing a 15 page Political Socialization Autobiography. It was (if you can't guess) a complete fluff piece of amateur-level self-analysis, which should have made it real easy. The main problem I had was that I really, really hate writing about myself. Without the words of some dead European guy to hide my opinions behind, I feel naked.

The longest one was 20 pages on Gender Politics and Female Mysticism during the Middle Ages, or something like that. I got an A, which was pretty impressive since I have no idea what I wrote, and still (7 months after the fact) haven't gotten up the guts to try reading it.

You have no idea what you wrote? And you can't bring yourself to read it 7 months later? (*five-minute pause ROFL*)

And in case you're wondering, yes, I still believe you and [violet] are both Max Barry.

But ditto here about really really hating to write about oneself.

Yep, I'm a geek. RAM necklace/earrings and all. >.<

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My current cluster of assignments. I'll go from easiest to hardest.

7 page paper for a 200 level modern drama class
performance-based assesment in said modern drama class
quiz in said modern drama class
7 page paper in an analytical grammar class
final in said analytical grammar class
interdisciplinary unit lesson plans and presentation
20 page paper outlining the role of the father in tragedy for "The Literature of Memory, Faith and Tragedy"
5-10 minute long presentation of the book Night in said class. In which Elie Wiesel is my professor.


I have to say that the 20 page paper is just kind of a pain in the ass, and very intimidating to have to write in a week or so.
The presentation was by far the most frightening and challenging thing I've ever done. I'm great with presentations and public speaking, but with this I had to balance the fact that I was presenting to a)my professor, b) the author of the book in question and c)a nobel prize winner and man whom I deeply respect.
The good news is both of my TA's said I did a great job, as did many classmates.
The scary, yet amazing, news is that I have my meeting with him next monday, where he will be telling me what he thought:eek:

*is procrastinating.*

High school english, I was supposed to write a children's book. 10-15 pages, mostly illistration(yes, I know. Everyone in that particular class did rather inordinate ammounts of drawing for a something that's supposed to teach us to read and write).

Thing was, I just couldn't get into it. No matter what I tried, I just couldn't think of anything worth writing that'd also be something comprehensable to a child. Finally, after a week of procrastinating, I channel surfed my way past a South Park episode. With that bit of inspiration, I set to work. didn't actually finish it till about 10 miniutes before it was due the next day, but it was done.

I don't think I did it quite right though, because I ended up making my teacher cry and got a trip to the principals office.

In retrospect, I probably should've just taken the F.

Yep, I'm a geek. RAM necklace/earrings and all. >.<

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Powerfully awesome! And it draws attention to teh boobs. Which are also awesome!
:fluffle:

I've never heard of "E" being used. I always thought it was A-B-C-D-F.It was common in Michigan, USA (K-12) when I went...not sure about other places. All feared the dreaded Triple Pronger.

After high school I vaguely recall that the college's system mysteriously was into the inexplicable format of forgetting the next logical letter after "D." Fortunately, my grades improved a lot once I got out of HS, so I didn't really have to pay attention to the lower end of the scale.