Shortest Horror Story : SUBMISSIONS

Typing that word up there gave me goosebumps. Really.

For so long I had heard people complain about submissions, and had dismissed all their rants as, well, rants. Now however, I am on my way to join those people.

I have never been the person with complete notes, so I guess this shouldn’t be a surprise. In school, since my teachers mostly liked me, I was let off easy. In high school, I think I had one notebook for all my subjects, for two years. And I didn’t go past the first ten pages. It wasn’t like anyone was checking our books anyway. College is different.

No one tells you that you have to complete six 10 page assignments for 5 subjects in one week. No one tells you that the fifth assignment was a complete mistake, and that you shouldn’t have done it. No one tells you that it isn’t a week, you have to submit it tomorrow and get less than perfect marks because the submission date was actually today.

Nobody told you? Your fault. Oh, and there’s exams starting in two days. Get to doing the assignment that will take all day and not  help at all in your exam okay? And make sure to attend college, because if you don’t we won’t accept your work, which means you won’t get to attend the exams and so you will fail.

Half day? Is that even a thing? Nope. We’ve actually added an hour so that our teachers can do what they were supposed to be doing all these weeks but didn’t because they were too busy cracking lame jokes or just not showing up for classes (I thought only students were supposed to do that. WTF teachers?). So now you have to attend college from 9 to 5.

Extra classes before and after college. You don’t need lunch breaks, you’ll learn to survive on knowledge. Bathroom breaks? Did you know the going to the bathroom is a sign of having a weak mind? SIT DOWN!!!

Okay, so maybe I exaggerated a bit at the end, but seriously, only a bit. And WordPress nearly deleted this post again. Why do you hate me WordPress? I am not the only one who uses you to unload all the crap they think up.

I like engineering, really, I do, but I had seen people studying engineering, and they seemed pretty free. They had time to come to my house and hit on my sister nearly all day long, i had seen them being online all day long, I’d seen them being completely useless all day long, so I figured that it was an easy thing to do. Engineering, that is. Being useless is an art form that I am never going to master. As is hitting on my sister.

Those people must have bribed their college or kept a person in their basement to complete all their work for them because it seems impossible to do anything else during submissions. I am typing with my left hand because my write hand is busy writing even now.

So this means that I have spent the time I could have used to complete two more answers in cribbing about not having time to complete those answers. I know, it made complete sense to do that.

And a big “Thank You” to OM for re-blogging my last post so that my new stats will look completely ruined because of that one day.

The mostly unknown and ridiculous dangers of going incognito

So I have a bad habit of going incognito when I’m online.

This guy

It’s for everything I do. If I’m on facebook, it’s incognito. If I’m on youtube, it’s incognito. If I’m doing a school project, it’s incognito. It started out because I was figured it would be easier if I got into the habit since it will be very uncomfortable for every one who uses the computer to see my questionable history otherwise (Ahem..). But now it’s become ridiculous. I actually do work on my computer these days (which was a shock when I realized it), and if I have to quit midway through “researching“, I have no way of getting back to that exact point unless I know exactly which site/page/video I was on. There is no history. Like, Seriously no history of when I use the computer. People don’t think it’s strange since they assume I’m just playing video games or something. But it’s become inconvenient to me now.

The other day, I had to submit a 6 page ppt on the topic Rank of a Matrix (the internet was nearly no help. We need more people uploading their projects so that I can pass them off as my own). When after nearly half an hour of back-breaking work, I finally found a page that was somewhat useful, I had to get up due to unforeseen problems (there was a loud noise downstairs). I did what most teenagers do whenever they’re on the internet and something happens. I shut down my browser without thinking. It was after a while that I realized what I had done. It was already late, I’d told my parents and my group members that my project was complete and I had to be in bed in less than 10 minutes. The world was crashing down around me. It was horrible.

I had three choices.

1. I could honestly admit that I had lied and that my part of the project was not done and then receive a lot of yelling from family and friends.

Needless to say, I was not keen on no 1

2.I could fake being sick and so put off going to college the next day.

I knew my group members would just tell me to email them my presentation. So, no good.

3.I could shamelessly go to sleep, take a corrupted ppt to college and then blame the college computers when it wouldn’t work.

It was a good plan. Maybe a bit used, but I like it nevertheless. I decided to go with it.

But thankfully I didn’t have to. My super memory skills helped me actually remember what I’d typed into google to search for that damned ppt, and I was able to get it again in less than half an hour this time. The world was good again.

But it wouldn’t have been had I not had super memory skills that help me remember stuff from as far as one hour ago.

Many of you might not be so gifted. That would mean you would be in trouble. And the whole group losing marks thing (I didn’t think of that at all. I wonder why). So I would like to tell you to actually use the browser the way it is supposed to be used. Not by just going incognito. I say as I post this stuff from my incognito browser. But you get my point.