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Fun Things To Do In Finals
(When You KNOW You're Going
To Fail Anyway)
1. Bring a pillow. Fall asleep
(or pretend to) until the last 15 minutes. Wake up, say "oh geez, better
get cracking" and do some gibberish work. Turn it in a few
minutes early.
2. Get a copy of the exam, run
out screaming "Andre, Andre, I've got the secret documents!!"
3. If it is a math/science exam,
answer in essay form. If it is long answer/essay form, answer with numbers
and symbols. Be creative. Use the integral symbol.
4. Make paper airplanes out of
the exam. Aim them at the instructor's left nostril.
5. Talk the entire way through
the exam. Read questions aloud, debate your answers with yourself out loud.
If asked to stop, yell out, "I'm SOOO sure you can hear
me thinking." Then start talking
about what a jerk the instructor is.
6. Bring cheerleaders.
7. Walk in, get the exam, sit down.
About five minutes into it, loudly say to the instructor, "I don't understand
ANY of this. I've been to every lecture all semester
long! What's the deal? And who
the hell are you? Where's the regular guy?"
8. Bring a Game Boy (or Game Gear,
etc...). Play with the volume at max level.
9. On the answer sheet (book, whatever)
find a new, interesting way to refuse to answer every question. For example:
I refuse to answer this question on the
grounds that it conflicts with
my religious beliefs. Be creative.
10. Bring pets.
11. Run into the exam room looking
about frantically. Breathe a sigh of relief. Go to the instructor, say
"They've found me, I have to leave the country" and run off.
12. Fifteen minutes into the exam,
sand up, rip up all the papers into very small pieces, throw them into
the air and yell out "Merry Christmas." If you're really daring,
ask for another copy of the exam.
Say you lost the first one. Repeat this process every fifteen minutes.
13. Do the exam with crayons, paint,
or fluorescent markers.
14. Come into the exam wearing
slippers, a bathrobe, a towel on your head, and nothing else.
15. Come down with a BAD case of
Turet's Syndrome during the exam. Be as vulgar as possible.
16. Do the entire exam in another
language. If you don't know one, make one up! For math/science exams, try
using Roman numerals.
17. Bring things to throw at the
instructor when s/he's not looking. Blame it on the person nearest to you.
18. As soon as the instructor hands
you the exam, eat it.
19. Walk into the exam with an
entourage. Claim you are going to be taping your next video during the
exam. Try to get the instructor to let them stay, be persuasive.
Tell the instructor to expect a
percentage of the profits if they are allowed to stay.
20. Every five minutes, stand up,
collect all your things, move to another seat, continue with the exam.
21. Turn in the exam approximately
30 minutes into it. As you walk out, start commenting on how easy it was.
22. Do the entire exam as if it
was multiple choice and true/false. If it is a multiple choice exam, spell
out interesting things (DCCAB. BABE. etc..).
23. Bring a black marker. Return
the exam with all questions and answers completely blacked out.
24. Get the exam. Twenty minutes
into it, throw your papers down violently, scream out "Screw this!" and
walk out triumphantly.
25. Arrange a protest before the
exam starts (i.e. Threaten the instructor that whether or not everyone's
done, they are all leaving after one hour to go drink).
26. Show up completely drunk. (Completely
drunk means at some point during the exam, you should start crying for
mommy.)
27. Every now and then, clap twice
rapidly. If the instructor asks why, tell him/her in a very derogatory
tone, "the light bulb that goes on above my head when I get
an idea is hooked up to a clapper.
DUH!"
28. Comment on how sexy the instructor
is looking that day.
29. Come to the exam wearing a
black cloak. After about 30 minutes, put on a white mask and start yelling
"I'm here, the phantom of the opera" until they drag you
away.
30. Go to an exam for a class you
have no clue about, where you know the class is very small, and the instructor
would recognize you if you belonged. Claim that
you have been to every lecture.
Fight for your right to take the exam.
31. Upon receiving the exam, look
it over, while laughing loudly, say "you don't really expect me to waste
my time o this drivel? "Days of our Lives" is on!!!"
32. Bring a water pistol with you.
Nuff said.
33. From the moment the exam begins,
hum the theme to Jeopardy. Ignore the instructor's requests for you to
stop. When they finally get you to leave one way or
another, begin whistling the theme
to the Mission Impossible and hope that they get the hint.
34. Start a brawl in the middle
of the exam.
35. If the exam is math/science
related, make up the longest proofs you could possibly think of. Get pi
and imaginary numbers into most equations. If it is a written
exam, relate everything to your
own life story.
36. Come in wearing a full knight's
outfit, complete with sword and shield.
37. Bring a friend to give you
a back massage the entire way through the exam. Insist this person is needed,
because you have bad circulation.
38. Bring cheat sheets FOR ANOTHER
CLASS (make sure this is obvious...like history notes for a calculus exam...
otherwise you're not just failing, you're getting
kicked out too) and staple them
to the exam, with the comment "Please use the attached notes for references
as you see fit."
39. When you walk in, complain
about the heat. Strip.
40. After you get the exam, call
the instructor over, point to any question, ask for the answer. Try to
work it out of him/her.
41. One word: Wrestlemania.
42. Bring balloons, blow them up,
start throwing them around like they do before concerts start.
43. Try to get people in the room
to do the wave.
44. Play frisbee with a friend
at the other side of the room.
45. Bring some large, cumbersome,
ugly idol. Put it right next to you. Pray to it often. Consider a small
sacrifice.
46. Get deliveries of candy, flowers,
balloons, telegrams, etc... sent to you every few minutes throughout the
exam.
47. During the exam, take apart
everything around you. Desks, chairs, anything you can reach.
48. Complete the exam with everything
you write being backwards at a 90 degree angle.
49. Bring a musical instrument
with you, play various tunes. If you are asked to stop, say "it helps me
think." Bring a copy of the Student Handbook with you,
challenging the instructor to find
the section on musical instruments during finals. Don't forget to use the
phrase "Told you so".
50. Start to cheer 5 minutes into
the exam. Get cheerleaders to do their routine. Bring drinks, streamers,
and food. Celebrate!
51. Bring a bow and arrow. Pretend
to be Cupid. Keep on shooting the instructor. When he asks you to stop
it, start flapping your arms like crazy and try to fly.
Smile sickly at him. Keep on doing
it till they send someone to take you out.
52. Bring a laptop and hook onto
the Net. Go on Chat and read out everything that is going on (including
cyber-you-know-what at Hot_Tub).
53. Undress. If it's co-ed, all
the better.
54. If 13 is your index number,
demand that it be changed. It'll hopefully take up all the exam time.
55. If you're doing the Os, say
that you're supposed to be doing your PhD, and what are you doing in this
dingy hall with dumb, simple questions. Then walk out.
56. Five minutes into the exam,
run to the front of the class with a bucket of water. Threaten to throw
it on the next person who puts down an answer. If nobody
writes anything within a minute
or so, dump the water on yourself and sit back down as if nothing happened.
57. Bring a small chalkboard with
you and scratch your nails on it. Blame it on the person next to you.
58. Bring a CD Player with you
and start blasting "Gangsta's Paradise." For the full effect, start bouncing
up and down in your seat, banging the rhythm on the head
of the student in front of you.
59. Every few minutes scream out
the wrong answers to certain questions.
60. Answer the exam with the "Top
Ten Reasons Why Professor So and So Sucks".