Trick I used in High School a few times, never failed.

mistersocks · 1 year

My philosophy professor made us paste the text of the essay into the body of the email as well as attaching the document. Wouldn't grade it otherwise.

tarqs2010 · 1 year

Don't try this in college. I've seen people try it and the teacher never says anything. They just get a 0.

One time when the kid asked why the teacher didn't tell him if he couldn't open it he just replied that if he had turned in a hard copy of a paper that had shit on it and he couldn't read it he would get a 0. Why should this be any different?

Needless to say after hearing that every time i turned in a paper i submitted the word file and pdf just to make sure.

zeppelinfromled · 1 year

You emailed papers in high school? I feel old.

anexanhume · 1 year

I actually had this happen, but I did the assignments. OpenOffice just liked to troll me with its random formatting changes.

mhsttd · 1 year

I did this once in a class during high school. The teacher never asked me to send the paper again but rather gave me an A on the assignment. It was this day that I realized my teacher was lazier than me.

[deleted] · 1 year

I had a prof. outright say that she knew about this trick and don't even try it. "Easy way to get dropped from the class," she said.

ayriana · 1 year

This is why I (a teacher) open all attachments when they are e-mailed to me, even if I won't get around to grading it for a few days.

sithyiscool · 1 year

During College, Office 2007 came out, I installed it, typed up a homework assignment and turned it in.

Later I got a 0 on the assignment because the teacher couldn't open a .docx file type and I had no idea they changed the file extension from .doc

DAMN!

Bexcellent2eachother · 1 year

Easier

AlphaRedditor · 1 year

I just slept with the teacher. Almost got in trouble when the principal found out. Slept with her too.

fortysevendicks · 1 year

YES. I remember when Vista came out I did this all the time.

"Excuese me, but I cant seem to open your paper"

"Hrmmm, I did it on Vista... I hear they're having a lot of compatibility problems"

"Oh yeah, Ive heard that too. Just get it to me soon..."

BruinsFan478 · 1 year

A friend of mine wrote a VB5 app which had a Word icon and was a simple Message Box, "Would you like to format the floppy". Regardless of pressing Yes/No, it would say the disc was formatted.

He would hand this in and when the teacher would say that there was a problem, he would pretend that it was his only copy and the teacher was to blame.

Kid was an asshole, but creative at that.

goatboy1970 · 1 year

English prof here. WE KNOW! We pulled the same shit when we were undergrads. Just turn it in on time. Not doing so is almost literally the only way to fail my class. Following directions + submitting on time = at least a C.

[edited for grammar]

[deleted] · 1 year

Nope, zero on the final.

WabashSon · 1 year

Does this work on Dissertations? o_O

IrrationalTsunami · 1 year

We had to turn things in on paper.

Hard to fake that.

Rain12913 · 1 year

Reposting this reply as its own comment:

Listen to what happened to ...my friend:

He did something extremely similar that had the same end result, except it worked out even better than he expected. He'd been slacking off in a class where 90% of the final grade was based on essays that were to be e-mailed to the professor at the end of each week throughout the semester. He had done 2-3 of the 12+ essays, but he hadn't even started working on the rest by the last week of class; he planned to complete them all during this time and then e-mail them to the prof before the grading period was over, hoping to lose only a few points due to how late they'd be.

Being a slacker and chronic procrastinator (almost typed protagonist there, which seems like a very solipsist thing to say...), my friend underestimated how hard it would be to bang out 10 essays in a single week (and the last week of the term, no less). He came up with the idea of sending the professor an e-mail saying: "just making sure you've received all of my essays, thanks!." Of course, the professor would not have received all of the essays, since most of them hadn't even been written yet, let alone sent. He'd surely just e-mail my friend back asking him to send them again, giving my friend a few extra days to complete the essays.

So, he sent the e-mail and began working on the first essay. An hour later, he received the following e-mail from his professor: "Dear JoeShmoe, got all your essays. thanks!". ....WTF?!? Now my friend began to panic, since he figured that the professor must have been on to him and was surely trying to call him out. Rather than e-mailing the professor back and saying "wait, are you sure you received them? uh, just wondering..." like a total idiot, he simply did nothing (remember, he's a procrastinator).

One week later, he got an A- in the class. Yep, the professor had simply lied and made up his grade. He'd decided that my friend had earned an A- in the class, despite only completing about 20% of the coursework. Makes you think about how often this has happened to you when you really did pass in the work, doesn't it?

l_l_troll_j · 1 year

If you did this with me, I'd:

1) Compare file size of original file you sent and the final one you sent. If they are way off, then I'll give you a 0.

2) Open your Word file in Notepad and if any of the plain text that is visible has nothing to do with your final paper, then I will give you a 0.

3) Better yet, open both files in UltraEdit and do a diff compare.

Lucky75 · 1 year

You're going to want to add a bunch of dummy text to the word file before you submit it so the file size changes though.

Back when we didn't submit things on computers, I would submit an old assignment that looked similar, and then apologize the next day saying that I think I submitted the wrong one.

BeerCzar · 1 year

I did this in High School but would never try it in College.

The_narrator101 · 1 year

Thank god teacher dont go on reddit.....0_0

MoreCowbellPlease · 1 year

The only thing I remember about college is how many times my grandmother died.

/channeling_zach

Zandt88 · 1 year

Why was I not surprised to see the word "apologize" misspelled in a post about how to get around something in school?

Lucky_Mongoose · 1 year

I'm more impressed that your high school used the internet for assignments. I only graduated from high school 4 years ago and our school website hardly even worked. (There was no way in hell our school would have been able to handle online assignment submissions)

Maybe I was right on the edge of the change. Can I now complain about "kids these days"?

captainbawls · 1 year

Trick I used in High School and college all the time, never failed: do your shit on time.

[deleted] · 1 year

You can email your assignments to your teachers now?

You kids have it WAY too easy. Back in my day we put pen to paper, baby!

thcobbs · 1 year

I never handed in a paper as a computer file. All my teachers required it be printed out.

venuswasaflytrap · 1 year

Another good trick my friend pulled once (highschool, not university), was you write the first page of your assignment, staple a few blank pages on the back, and then rip off the blank pages at the staple so it looks like they got lost.

Finish assignment, when teacher says (in class) that they don't have the rest of your assignment (3 days later) happily go print them a completed copy. I feel the existence of the first page really sells this one, and frankly, my friend is a genius to come up with it and earned the extension (it's just some shitty highschool class after all).

darkpaladin · 1 year

I was a TA and I had someone do this to me once. I replied back informing them that computers do not actually work that way.

ejukator · 1 year

It's a good thing teachers and professors don't browse Reddit!

MOLESTOTHESUPERAPIST · 1 year

And when I was in high school I turned in all my work on paper like a dumbass

trahh · 1 year

This idea has become so widely spread that it went from teachers being nice that something went wrong to simply avoiding straight trickery and not giving any excuses.

Cosmic_Charlie · 1 year

And this, ladies and gents, is precisely why I require hardcopies. I will accept an electronic copy (it's easier to mark-uo and grade,) but only with an exact hardcopy.

SadPig · 1 year

<sigh> I don't know where you go to school, but take my word for it, it's lame. We have seen it, and all similar excuses, many times before. Grow a pair and say that you want to turn the assignment in late.

[deleted] · 1 year

dd if=/dev/random of=assignment.doc bs=1024 count=50

Enginerdiest · 1 year

Needless to say, this won't work in a college CS class about checksums and hashes.....

groberts1980 · 1 year

I had a professor in college who would have looked at the time tag on the file you re-sent. He would have only accepted the new file if the "last modified" time was no later than the actual due date. Basically, don't try this in college.

multiply_regressed · 1 year

And then when the professor checks the properties of the new document, they'll see when it was created...

NovelTea420 · 1 year

Ahh, the future un/under-employed American workers of tomorrow... don't expect your new boss, Mr. Xiu, to be as understanding.

psulli · 1 year

I've worked with people like you in life after college. It sucks.

goddamnsam · 1 year

Too bad I'm a journalism major, and if this happened my professor would say "too late, whether this was a mistake or not, you missed the deadline, that's all that matters."

ok_kid_a · 1 year

I once did this in college and it worked out without submitting real paper.

After not getting finished with a paper come 11:59pm of the due date I submitted a corrupted file while continuing to work on the paper throughout the night.

After a few days I had completed the paper and I was pretty happy with it, yet I had not received an email from the professor. Eventually I checked my grade online and apparently received an 89% for a word document with nothing but corrupted text.

My roommate in the same class got an 98% on his paper, so our theory is that the teacher just went through everyone's assignment grade and hit 8's and 9's.

TLDR, Submitted a corrupted a paper got an 89% on it without ever getting an email from the professor.

bzeurunkl · 1 year

High School? Hell, I've done this to the U.S. Government (my employer at the time). ;-)

ukyah · 1 year

who emails assignments in high school? since when do you not just turn in hard copies? am i that old and out of touch?

burntbones · 1 year

Teacher here. That's why you ask for the hard copy.....

Airazz · 1 year

In my uni they require to submit paper copy too.

realblublu · 1 year

I kinda did this accidentally. Turned in my assignment, but for some reason, the file I sent was an empty file. Got a reply (several days after the deadline) saying that, I immediately sent the correct file. The teacher may have suspected I was pulling something like this, but I honestly wasn't. Oh well. It was a really stupid assignment for a really stupid class with a really stupid teacher anyway.

[deleted] · 1 year

I heard a story once that someone was in a group that was supposed to be gathering data, and another group was supposed to write the code to use the data to generate the stats and info that were needed for a study.

The boss of the code writing group started saying in meetings that HIS group was already done, and it was that damned data gathering group that was the holdup.

So the boss of the data gathering group went to the next meeting, handed over a blank tape and said "OK, we're done, here's your data."

The 2nd guy, of course, was nowhere near done. It took 3 more months before they were even ready to start looking at the data. When they discovered they couldn't read the tape, they said as much, and by then the first guy had the real data, and said "Hm, must have made an error in saving the data. Here's another copy."

momentary · 1 year

downvote just because this needs to stay a secret

temujin64 · 1 year

For my university, all official papers such as this must be handed in as a hard copy, no exceptions. I always thought they were just being inflexible, but I can see now.

[deleted] · 1 year

One time I realized I forgot to do a huge assignment. Our webmail software was really, really shitty and would read the received-by date from the mail header instead of generate a real one.

So before I went to class on the day it was due, I wrote the professor an email asking a question, and forged the date header to be a week earlier. Then after class, when everyone else had turned in their assignment, I went up to her and told her I never received a reply from her. She waded through her cluttered inbox and found my question from "the week before" and apologized profusely and allowed me to turn it in much later.

I still feel like such a shitty person for doing that.

kyb0t · 1 year

Did something similar in high school to a teacher who thought very highly of me. I was expecting a request to turn in the assignment but none came. When she called students up to give them their grades on the paper she just told me she couldn't read the document but gave me a 100 anyway.

Epic win... But I only did it that once, I knew it was never gonna work that perfectly again.

wahooyahoo · 1 year

Fuck, stop upvoting this. I actually do this and can't afford others doing it as well.

Codeegirl · 1 year

Wow. When I was in high school we couldn't email the teachers, we had to hand in actual paper with words on them. God I feel old.

bluehorseshoe · 1 year

When I was in high school we went to school and handed in hard copies. Students are emailing assignments now?

[deleted] · 1 year

Confirmation: This does not work in college.

Im_Condescending · 1 year

You might enjoy file destructor. Saw it on reddit still havn't used it thou.

mbateman · 1 year

I've seen students that submit just one page saying it was an old copy. Then several days later submit the full assignment saying that they'd just noticed they'd accidentally submitted the wrong version. I always class it as a late submission.

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