It's going to be a long day for us on the East Coast so let's share some stories. Everyone has their favorite college party/girl story but there were also epic moments with regards to academic situation so let's hear some.

I have a lot of success stories from college but I'll start with a high school one.

Senior year taking AP Lit, I hate this rookie teacher and I especially hate literature and language. It's also my first class in the morning so I'm barely awake during it. I walk into class, sit down and she tells the class to take out a pen and paper to start our in-class essay on the Metamorphisis. I clearly didn't read the book like the rest of the class and tell her that I didn't read it. She said write something down and hand it in. So I wrote, "I haven't read this book." So she calls my dad who is pretty angry but also laughs it off because the teacher said I could read the short story that night and write the essay at home. Got a 96 on it which was top 5 in the class, lol.

College- I attended probably about 25% total of all my classes.

Calc I - only attended midterm and final, got 100 and 99 although this isn't something to brag about since I took BC Calc in HS and got a 5 but meh w/e.

Calc II- thought it would be easy, didn't attend classes like normal cause I thought I knew it all from HS. I get an email from the professor saying he has never seen me in class. I come in the next class with some made up story about working and family and w/e other crap I could throw in and he buys it. I attend a few more classes, just enough to show my face and get an A in the class (really hard final, thank god it was curved)

Financial Management- Professor was a traveling professor from South Korea. Obv a real strict guy. So he noticed that students weren't attending his classes after the first one and found this insulting. He starts a new policy where at the start of every class he would hand out a quiz. This served the dual purpose of monitoring attendence because he could see who was handing in problems plus it forced the students to read material at home to have any idea what the problem was going to be. So all I did was come into class for 2 mins, do the quiz, hand it in and stealthily leave the class room because he would monitor the door after people left. From his quiz examples in class and his finals recommendations sheet on what we had to know, I knew the exact problems that were going to be on the test. Even if we didn't cover them in class but I knew he was going to ask obscure topics from the recommendations sheet. We were allowed one two-sided page of notes and I copied problems from my text book on these obscure topics, was the only one in the class. Class takes the final, can obviously see people sweating in their chairs and hear "WTFs" but I finish the exam in about an hour, hand it in and get highest grade in the class, a 92. Mean was a 68.

Operations/Supply Chain- didn't go to class but little did I know that the professor issued pop quizzes (4) throughout the semester because he noticed kids weren't showing up. I never heard about this and missed all the pop quizzes which was about 25% of my grade. Last day of regular classes I have about a 10 minute conversation with him about grade theory (like wtf) where I basically say if you think I don't deserve at least an A- for how much smarter I am than my classmates then don't give it to me but always know you will be wrong. This is before I've taken the final too, lol. I tell him I'll ace his final and it won't be a challenge. He says ace the final and then he'll think about it. I obviously kill it and he tells me it's ridiculous that I can ace his final without going to class. I was honest with him and told him that it's my normal thing to not attend classes. He gave me an A- for the class.

Marketing- I hate the soft business classes. I'm a pure finance and math guy so anything other than that really doesn't interest me. First I make sure to register for the class as late as possible which was 3 weeks into the semester. First day I show up I make sure to not tell my professor my name because I know I will never be attending this class, just want to get the course materials saying I signed up late and hopefully he would forget my face. Midterm comes along, I sit in the back of the classroom and he comes right up to me and says "How nice to see you [my name], finally coming to a class?" I just look at him and say "How do you know my name?" (lol) and he says he looked up my profile after not recognizing the name on his class roster (damn him). I get like a B- on the midterm. Obviously I'm arrogant enough to not go to class after he knows I'm not attending and is taking attendence daily but I really didn't care for this grade. Come into the final cramming for only a day (this was common for all my classes, I crammed for every single final, forgot to mention that above). Surprisingly the final was pretty easy for me and I got an A. He gave me a B in the course however cause he hated me.

And my favorite one is of my Antiquity and the Renaissance class which is some horrible class analyzing and relating the Bible to works in the Renaissance. Now a few things: 1) This was a freshman course that I put off until senior year because I knew I was going to get like a D or C in it and didn't want it affecting my GPA when I was interviewing for jobs; 2) Class attendence is mandatory, miss more than 4 and for each one you miss you lose an entire letter grade; 3) I'm an atheist so reading the Bible for it's literary value as a work by itself and relating it to later works was brutal and 4) There is no curve for this class with there being 2 essays, a midterm, a final and a recitation all counting for my grade. 95-100 was an A, 90-94 was an A-, etc., so it's easy to mess up one thing and get a B- or C+.

Now, with mandatory attendence I obviously went but there was no way I was going to listen to this hippy professor lecture. I brought my laptop and played PLO every class (laptops banned too but I sat in the back corner and he didn't see my laptop). I read none of the books going into the final. I do my best cram job ever and get an A on the final!!! A MOTHERFUCKING A!!!!!!!!!!! The final had passages where we had to guess the work, author and the character in the book. Then I wrote this essay relating The Prince, The Courtier, Confessions of some Saint and the Bible out of no where. Since I got between a 95 and a 100 that means all parts of my test were very good. My family laughs over this because there is no way this was even possible. Got a B+ for the course which is sick considering my EV was a C.

And this is how I arrived at my current job :-)

I attended every single minute of every single class all four years. Every class was mandatory.

Leets you sound like you were a complete douche in college. It doesn't sound like you challenged yourself at all either. With your brains you should have been pre-med or something.

College was a pretty big breeze for me.

My first year before I transferred, I was at Iowa State. I did a whole year of classes there and barely went to any of them and still had a 3.2 GPA. I'd sometimes just take the whole week off and there were classes I attended only 5 times the whole semester (Geology).

I then transferred to DePaul for my last 4 years, It is a private school so they said attendance was manditory and we had small classes (25-50) but I would still skip about 25% of all classes (more if the teacher didn't care). I usually took 1-2 night classes each quarter (you would take 3-4 total classes a quarter and we had practice during the day and I didn't want to take super early a.m. classes). Night classes were the best because I would always skip at least 3 of the 10 and usually leave early the other half.

I got my degree in business adminstration and overall I would see it was quite easy. There were a handful of classes I actually went and payed attention and buckled down to get a passing grade (Calc I - B, Calc II - B+, Accounting 101 - C, Accounting 102 C). Other than these classes pretty much every class I would just show up, text and go on my cell phone the whole class and take about 4 hours or so to cram before the midterm and then do the same thing again for the final.

I graduated with a 3.05 and put in very very minimal work and had a ton of fun. I will say that the most gratifying thing was in those 4 classes when I actually buckled down and learned the material and executed it on the final, it made me feel good about myself.

*** One thing I swore by was ratemyprofessor.com and signing up for classes at the earliest possible date, this ensured that I got the best/easiest classes and I am 100% positive it saved me a whole lot of work because I know people who didn't do this and had basic classes that were absolute hell for them due to the teachers they had.

freshman and sophmore year i went to class prob around 75% of the time, except for my 2 math classes. I took honors math in high school and these were easier than some of those classes, so i just went for the exams and got A's. Some classes i was legit interested in. Psychology, Business Law, Accounting for a while. Others i hated and either didn't go or slept. Art Appreciation, Spanish.

Had a 3 something after 2 years,(3.3 maybe?), then my junior year i legit didn't go to any class, and didn't study a bit for any test(was really starting to play poker and not give a shit about school). Made enough money that year to pay for failing all my classes and start my career as a poker player. Now, im really wishing i hadn't done that. back in school again with this poker bs and not knowing wtf im gonna do in 5 years.

I wrote a 15 page research paper the day it was due (even though I had all semester to work on it) and got a B...class was at 9am so I woke up at 5am and finished in like 2 hours iirc

Water Resource Economics. Four tests, 25% of grade apiece. I probably went to class once every two weeks. Showed up one day and professor is handing back a test. I begin to sweat, panic and curse my failure to look at the syllabus. After class, I tell the prof that I missed the test. He says "no problem" and lets me take it the next week (with a bunch of others who were in the same boat).

Since I had a solid 'A' in the class, I barely studied and figured I had a good enough grasp of the material to do well. Test was an essay with six questions about exciting topics like water adjucation and acre footage. It may as well have been in Korean. I didn't even know what the questions meant, much less how to answer them.

Since I was pretty much fucked, I decided my best course of action was to re-write each question over and over with different wording. I ended up writing six pages of nonsense. I figured I had earned an 'F', but hoped that it was high enough to at least still have a 'C'.

I got the test back the next week. 96%. I think he just skimmed it, thought "tl;dr" and gave me two more points than I had earned on the first test.

I FREAK out when speaking in front of people. When I'm nervous in general I stammer and stumble over words. 2nd year of college my mother bribed me to take a public speaking class b/c she thought it would help to get over my phobia. 2nd week of classes was 9/11. It was an 8-930a class, and kid who was sitting next to me kept getting calls on his cell phone. He said it was his dad and he needed to answer it so he went outside. He came back in hysterical crying saying his dad worked in the WTC and just said that a plane hit the building and he wasn't going to make it b/c he was too high up and he was calling to tell him he loved him and to take care of his mom for him. The teacher flipped out that it was the worst prank ever and if he was lying he was getting an F for the semester. I went to class the next week and the kid obviously wasn't there and it spooked me and I never went back. My mom understood and told me to take PS the following semester and I did. First time "speaking" in front of like 25 people in this TINY classroom (so it seemed like there was more people then there was) and I started shaking and literally couldn't get the first word out. The prof said "any day now" and I honestly couldn't get the words out and walked out and never took public speaking again.

College was extremely easy for me and I graduated Cum Laude. Here are some interesting stories about my experience.

1. My second to last semester I was filling in my graduation paperwork. I just finished my schedule for my last 12 credits and was speaking to my advisor. The advisor said everything looks good, but you need to add 2 more classes to graduate because the computer says I was 18 credits short of my 120. Yes, the computer system actually lost 2 of my classes that I took at the college, these weren't transfer credits or anything. It literally took several weeks to get this shit straightened out because the professors of those classes were no longer with the university and they had no other way to verify. I seriously thought that they were trying to coerce me to pay for two more classes in order to graduate.

Go figure they also fucked up my wife's graduation from the same department, same school two years later. I actually had to hire an attorney to fight for her to be graduated on time.

2. I had the worst professor ever for my Shakespeare class, which was a requirement for my English degree (she was the only one who taught it). She was an egomaniac and always in a foul mood. It was really interesting, because her husband was a professor of mine the same semester and he was awesome, but his wife was always such a bitch. For some reason she didn't like me at all the whole semester. She gave an assignment for us to summarize and present research papers done on different Shakespeare plays and present it out loud to the class. After we read out summary we were supposed to field questions from the class critiquing our analysis of the paper and making us defend the paper as if we wrote it ourselves. Everyone else got really cool papers from famous authors, but she made me present one of her own papers. So it's already not kosher that she's making me present her own research paper, but her paper was really poorly written and made no sense. For example, it had no thesis statement and no real analysis at all.

So I presented her shitty paper to the class without saying who wrote it because I knew it would be a problem when I had to field questions because I'd clearly embarrass her if people found out that she wrote it. I also couldn't lie and use anything that wasn't in the paper to defend it so there was no BSing it. When I took the questions, which clearly couldn't be answered by her shitty paper I was honest and said that the author didn't present their case very well and I couldn't defend their position. So during the 15 minutes of questions I received a continual death stare. She gave me a B on the assignment, no idea why.

Throughout college I thought I'd use my English major to teach and taking her class and being so miserable in it made me completely lose interest in teaching.

The best is when you don't go to class for the first month and then finally decide to show up. And then when you do show up, as soon as the professor notices you, he stops class and tells you to come outside. He then informs you that you've been absent way too many times, over his limit, and have thus failed out of his class and you need to leave. You nod your head and say WELP cya later but then you realize that your backpack is still at your desk in the back of the classroom, So now you have to go back in for the awkward silent walk of shame where you try not to make eye contact with everyone staring at you who knows you just failed out cuz you were a lazy moron. That shit is the best.

I had a college algebra professor bet me $100 that I couldn't get an A on his final cause I never showed up for class and it was comprehensive. Got a 96% on it and he has yet to pay up

I graduated with a 2.8 accum.

I went to class 20% of time and dont remember a teachers name or a thingi was taught.

Unless u are a science major or studying to bea doctor or lawyer grades really dont fn matter.

Just graduate and learn people skills and you will be ok. Maybe do good in one or two classes for reference purposes

sigh ... i didn't take the traditional route. I went right into the workforce after high school and then took night school classes at college / university for about 10yrs while i worked a day job.

My most frightening experience was presenting a paper on organizational behavior to a room full of university students. I was scared shitless because public speaking is totally out of my element especially at that level. Had a lot of laughs and spilled a lot of beers after classes throughout the years. No regrets.

The Navy offers a Jazz Appreciation class?

Sales is a non-technical skill :/