I no longer fear deadlines!

arniegrape · 1 year

Yeah, most colleges don't cotton to this any longer. It's your responsibility to get the assignment in on time. If you don't, whatever the reason, it's your fault. End of discussion.

wobblyweeble · 1 year

I would not try this. It will backfire.

mechanate · 1 year

Nope. Zero on the final.

v500 · 1 year

Or you could just do the assignment on time...

SpenceMasta · 1 year

this is why all my professors ask for hard copies, emailing it is just for plagiarism tests

xopj · 1 year

It's stupid easy to tell when someone has done this to a word doc. You would need to at least write a majority of the paper so that most of it showed up in the file to make it believable.

angrywaffle04 · 1 year

and.. thats why they dont take soft copies anymore

firemogle · 1 year

What kind of back woods institution of learning are you going to where this works? Is the dean a monkey with a fancy hat?

Rain12913 · 1 year

I did something similar that ended up being one of the funniest/most memorable things that's ever happened to me.

I was taking a history class where the final grade was 100% based on 15 essays which were to be completed at the end of each week. Each essay had to be about 5 pages in length and was to be based on that week's lesson. In the beginning of the term, the professor said that we didn't have to e-mail them to him every week so long as he received them all by the end of the term.

So, of course, fast forward to one week before the end of the term and I had started exactly 0 of the 15 essays, figuring that I'd just cram them in at the last moment. After realizing that this was simply an impossible task, I came up with a plan: I e-mailed the professor a day or two before the end of the term and said: "I just wanted to confirm that you've received all of my essays. Thanks for a great semester!". I figured that I could get a few extra days to complete the essays after he'd inevitably reply with something like: "hmm, actually no I haven't received them, could you try sending them again?"

So in the next few days I started writing the essays. I had finished 3 of the 15 when I got a response from the professor: "Received them all. Thanks!" My heart stopped. What.the.fuck.do.I.do? I hadn't sent him a single piece of work for the entire semester. I tried to imagine all the possible scenarios: was he calling my bluff? Was he mistaking me for another student? Either way, he had to know that he didn't have any of my work. Should I write them all and then send them anyway? What the hell do I do?

So, of course, I decided to do nothing. I didn't respond and simply awaited my grade. Several weeks later, the grades were in and there it was: an A- .... like a boss.

MetacomCreative · 1 year

Try doing this when you get a job, with real deadlines... Let me know how it works out!

saraaacrawford · 1 year

This might work in high school but you're fucked if you try to pull this in college

MisterWonka · 1 year

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE downvote this. As a former teacher, I Can tell you that this is like 5 or 6 years old. NO professor would fall for this. In fact, almost every class where the professor accepts digital copies, on the syllabus it will tell you which file types and extensions are acceptable.

This is a repost, it's stupid, it's bad advice, and could screw up some kids' grades. If that's not enough reason to downvote it, I don't know what is.

Tiraomlal · 1 year

My profs have always asked me to submit a physical copy as well as a digital one.

[deleted] · 1 year

Hey Boss here's that spreadsheet you wanted last week!

Metathinker · 1 year

As a teacher, I've seen my fair share of assignments. If you cheat, I might not catch you this time but when I do the rest of your life with me is going to be fucking hell. And for what? A stupid grade on a stupid assignment? Better to just tell me the truth up front. If you've acted with diligence and honor in the past, I take that into consideration and I am understanding. We can work something out like adults. My goal is to help you learn. Grades in my class are just one signal of what you understand and not a reflection of you as a person. So don't be a pussy and weasel your way through like this. Have some guts. Admit it's late, take the grade penalty but understand that that portion of your final mark is just a smudge on the overall assessment you get on the quality of what you hand in.

TitusUMMS · 1 year

Syllabus fix: Any failure to give me a complete working copy of your document will be considered ineptitude and will be graded as such.

Also, you are paying thousands of dollars a year to get an education. You could at least do the work and pretend to give a shit.

muhnooer · 1 year

This shit doesn't fly in the real world.

Stop robbing yourself of an education.

jazzwhiz · 1 year

Yeah cheating is a great solution to not finishing your homework on time. And while there are ways around it, it looks pretty obvious when the file is way too small.

[deleted] · 1 year

I did this 10 years ago with corrupted floppy disks (when we were allowed to turn them in). Times have changed.

StockmanBaxter · 1 year

You will still get docked in most classes. They don't care, it's up to you to get the file in. If it is messed up, then it's your fault.

[deleted] · 1 year

Once a professor of mine was unable to open a file that was actually the completed assignment. He BARELY accepted the excuse, even though it was legit. After that I started sending two files, a .doc and a .rtf EVERY time.

StuPastu · 1 year

http://corrupt-a-file.net/ Does the same thing. Oh, the internet and its limitless power.

OnePoint · 1 year

I clicked on this link hoping for some brilliant strategy involving self motivation or time management. What was I thinking?

RainZM · 1 year

How about... actually doing your assignment before the deadline?

suicidalsmurf · 1 year

Fuck you, just do your homework

Se-men · 1 year

You'd be surprised how many people this has worked for.

petrifiedkitten · 1 year

Do not take advice from someone who can't spell "apologize".

JustinTime112 · 1 year

MUST DOWNVOTE SO NO ONE ELSE KNOWS

I_WASTE_TIME · 1 year

Or just open with notepad, save and close. Will still get corrupted

mrpopenfresh · 1 year

No self respecting teacher will accept it. This is like telling a cop that you weren't aware it was illegal to bang an underage hooker.

TheLolocaust · 1 year

I remember finding the summarize function in microsoft word. I had thought I had a 5 page paper due a week after it actually was. I had 30 minutes to complete this paper. I searched the web for articles and other papers regarding my topic. All of these together were about 11 pages. I had word summarize them down to 5 pages, edited for grammar and overall flow of the paper...received an 85....Not bad

BlueScreenD · 1 year

Yeah this isn't gonna work. It's really easy to tell.

eisks · 1 year

Now that it's public, it is now useless.

fmontez1 · 1 year

Try this at a newspaper. . . . . This is stupid.

Fiann100 · 1 year

This is why many profs do not accept emails.

HashRunningRapist · 1 year

It still works at American Military University. Done this a few times.

[deleted] · 1 year

College professors actually accept essays/reports online?

News to me.

yuuuuuuuu · 1 year

What if the prof wants it in PDF?

zoaa · 1 year

My teachers just check the last edited date, if it was after when the assignment was due, too bad.

wateristasty · 1 year

I've never had a class that didn't require handing in a hard copy as well.

sschoen · 1 year

One time, way back in the day, I pulled this shit on a final paper for some music class. I never received an e-mail, but some time later I ran into my teacher who told me that he greatly enjoyed my paper. It was one of my proudest moments from high school.

sincerely_me · 1 year

In my experience, I have to disagree for the most part with all of the comments suggesting college professors or instructors will just say, "Sorry. Not my problem." Sure, I've known a couple who were like that, but my professors have always been pretty forgiving if there was at least a slightly more legitimate excuse than, "I forgot it was due/waited too long to start it." However, I will say that an instructor with any knowledge of Word should know that (s)he can look at the file properties and see when it was created, last modified, etc., which sort of negates the OP's strategy anyway, since even the nice professors won't like to find out that you've lied to them.

justamemejunky · 1 year

we usually submit papers in LaTeX so this tip probably doesn't work

Incalite · 1 year

This is great, I'm going to use this for all my assignments!

pearson530 · 1 year

The file Comment could not be opened because there are problems with the contents.

friedrice5005 · 1 year

When is the last time a word file legitimately got corrupted for you? Don't you think that there would be a similar ratio for the TAs and professors? When that ratio all of a sudden skyrockets they will know that there is something up. Stop being lazy and just do that damn assignment.

erycstrife · 1 year

I've done this before. It works. Play it cool and make sure you explain that you dont understand why it can't be opened and send the broken file again and copy and paste the content of the completed assignment in the e-mail to your professor.

arcticfox · 1 year

I no longer fear receiving Fs on my assignments

FTFY

shadowsteppa · 1 year

I did a similar thing. I took a .jpg file aka a picture and renamed the filetype to .doc, this got me an extra week.

Fookananer · 1 year

I miss community college.

nickiter · 1 year

When I was teaching college, I just said it's in and working on the day, or it's a zero, and recommended that people send it in early.

smoothsensation · 1 year

Step 6: The professor looks at the "last Modified" Date and flunks you

AskingVikas · 1 year

This could work in High School.

SirMaster · 1 year

Yeah this wouldn't have worked on my profs.

Most of them were really smart and had upload scripts on their website for homework submissions that would check the .doc file and if it was corrupt it wouldn't accept them.

[deleted] · 1 year

I hope you don't fear failing.

hieagie · 1 year

This never works in colleges.

depresio · 1 year

This will never work for my IT systems class...

wz55 · 1 year

This is very heavy discussion for something posted to /r/funny...

alphamike1 · 1 year

I got a B GCSE in Business Studies by doing this

OnaUpboatMuthaFucka · 1 year

All the professor has to do is open all of the files on the day they are due to make sure they all work. Then the professor can take all the time they need to grade them.

sublogic · 1 year

Hey it works in Community College!

pho75 · 1 year

You should fear metadata and teachers who don't give a poo about your technical difficulties.

SqueakyMcFroggerton · 1 year

Done this :P

M0b1u5 · 1 year

Protip: grade given for submitting a corrupted document: F

OP - you are a dipshit of global proportions.

Tobachnick · 1 year

Though few people will see this, most universities are trying to switch to using turnitin.com. So, anything you upload must first be approved by you and the website. No pity for the lazy I'm afraid.

Boggster · 1 year

Won't work anymore cuz it's on reddit now...

jcsunag · 1 year

Also - this is still a deadline. You must complete the work 2 days after the original due date.

Imightbeflirting · 1 year

Doesn't work. They check "date created" for files.

watyousay · 1 year

Try this these days and it gets forwarded to IT for 'recovery'. In reality we open it in Notepad and copy out the plan-text and send it back to the teacher.

When the only plaintext in the document is "sskdjfnsdkfjsdfkjsbdfksjbf sdfkjsdfkjsdfsdkjfh", we add a note saying "Yeah this kids bullshitting".

lanium · 1 year

You're the reason profs will refuse to accept things via email, you lazy asshole.

Some of us can't afford printers.

rabbitlion · 1 year

This might have worked 10 years ago (used it myself). These days you have to zip the document and put a .exe file in the same zip, causing most email clients to block the extension.

BreezyD · 1 year

I have had professors who specifically require printed assignments handed in for reasons like this.

Chucktheduck · 1 year

Meh this may work at a community college depending on the teacher and class size.

TAC0J0E · 1 year

I wonder how many reddit teachers have seen this

iamanooj · 1 year

Or stop being an idiot and do your work when you're supposed to... You're supposed to be learning, not trying to find ways around the system.

[deleted] · 1 year

I'm beginning to think that American universities just don't try anymore. When I was in school to hand everything in on paper, to prevent things like this. I've heard of schools accepting electronic submissions but they had to be in RTF format. This wouldn't work in that case.

trigaderzad2606 · 1 year

I just did this for my friend for an assignment he didn't do due today after seeing this. True Story.

goldcodpiece · 1 year

Or just do it on time.

BosskHogg · 1 year

If your teacher accepts this - you are lucky. I teach high school and tell my students all the time: corrupt file = corrupt student in my mind. F.

coltman75 · 1 year

At my school, we have a system to submit papers where we copy/paste the text into their document, and then upload our pictures or charts or whatnot. It's kinda Google Docs-esque. Then, when we hit submit, we can actually look at the final submitted version online. It keeps all of the submitted papers in an online locker. There's no way to do anything like this, because there's no way to access the file and no way to have not known something went wrong.

dirtydave71 · 1 year

LOL.. fail.

Maybe you could try the Post Modern Essay Generator, since you don't seem to want to do your homework.

Or you could try this one.

Whichever one you try, you are probably risking a horrible fate if caught.

wideasleep · 1 year

Far more effective

annother · 1 year

So, you think there are no teachers on Reddit?

Herbagy · 1 year

Learning to bullshit the system is one of the most useful things you learn in college. At least at the undergrad level.

0hmyscience · 1 year

I used to do this back in high school when i had to present things in class. this was back in the floppy disk days, and anyone who used those knows they were a pain in the ass. i would create a bitmap in paint, draw some garbage and then change the .bmp extension to .ppt. Worked every time.

toastyghost · 1 year

have fun getting fired in the first month when you get to the real world because you tricked yourself into thinking you invented a magic time machine in college.

Mo0man · 1 year

A couple of years back, I had to take a community college night course. The teacher in that course told us to a) Include multiple file types b) Paste that shit in the text of the email, to be 100% sure no bullshit happened.

This was in a community college night class. A few years ago. I repeat it only to emphasize that this bullshit is not only old, but old as shit.

redboxmike · 1 year

Oldest trick in the book. Stopped working in 2004. Get over it.

[deleted] · 1 year

Just do your work and turn it in on time. That is all

NoRaptors · 1 year

http://karmadecay.com/i.imgur.com/mQ0L6.jpg

Cool 8th-time repost, broski.

Spiro_Agnew · 1 year

That's why my university makes us submit hard copies as well.

Kay23 · 1 year

What if he knows about the trick and opens it in notepad?

AzekYo · 1 year

This works perfectly in highschool in case anyone was curious.

cholcobo · 1 year

I went to prep school, and one kid was suspended for academic dishonesty by copying excerpts from a different paper he wrote and changing the font to symbols. The IT department figured it out.

ifpeoplecouldtalk · 1 year

My high school requires us to submit the paper to turnitin.com. What's even worse is that it must be due at an exact time, no exceptions.

ozone63 · 1 year

relevant: http://neddyy.net/docs/

Spysix · 1 year

Like many said, this does not work in college. I have done this a few times in my high school career and it has always worked. But after reading syllabuses from my college classes, they clearly tell you if they can't read it, they won't grade it, and you will fail.

CrazyEddie041 · 1 year

Step 6. Fail the class because your professor had 30 students try this last semester, and the semester before that, and the semester before that, and the semester before that...

creaturistic · 1 year

Extend deadline like a boss. Hats off to you.

Obtez · 1 year

I'm working on a mac, so I always sent a .pages Document, when I was late, which my teachers could not open. It worked every time :D

willb · 1 year

it works better if you make the file about the correct size. Sometimes they are suspicious if it's only 2Kb or something...

shuffleshuffle · 1 year

And aPologise for spellings mistakes.

etork0925 · 1 year

this will never work. If your attachment doenst work then too bad for you.

stafa · 1 year

I actually did this once for my graphics design assignment, got an extension for one week!

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