Worst Assignment/s ever!!! (1 Viewer)

[raymondchouku]

So, I'm just finishing up an assignment for my Theory class. The assignment wasn't particularly bad, but it got me to thinking. What was the worst assignment or type of assignments you have had? For me its always Powerpoint presentations. I don't know why I hate them, I just do. Its not the presentation part, but the compilation of the presentation. I can write a 10 page (or in the case of my senior thesis a 40-page paper with 90 pages of appendices) paper, but I can't stand doing a powerpoint.

 

[maruberry]

Powerpoints are the worst. Just have me come up and talk ffs or are people so incapable that you can't understand what I am talking about unless it is also written on the screen?

 

[dokyeomon]

Working in Word makes me want to throw myself off a bridge.

 

[raymondchouku]

Powerpoints are the worst. Just have me come up and talk ffs or are people so incapable that you can't understand what I am talking about unless it is also written on the screen?

Honestly, a lot of classes are basically professors just doing that. I had a lot of courses where if you memorized the powerpoints you'd ace the tests. Some professors even had the powerpoints sent to them by the company who created the textbooks... lol

Working in Word makes me want to throw myself off a bridge.

What about word makes it so bad?

 

[dokyeomon]

Honestly, a lot of classes are basically professors just doing that. I had a lot of courses where if you memorized the powerpoints you'd ace the tests. Some professors even had the powerpoints sent to them by the company who created the textbooks... lol


What about word makes it so bad?

Well,generally the assignments I have to do on Word are always annoying cuz they're so uniformed with the form you gotta use,the way of quoting,captioning the pictures etc.

Also,they typically have to be at least 10 pages,which is just..annoying.
The worst part is adding other elements like photos and tables,the text constantly gets messed up and I have to fix it a million times,that's where I lose most of my nerves I'd say lol

Working in Powerpoint is a cool breeze compared to Word.I just slap on some pictures and quotes from the literature and I'm done.

 

[DannyDeVito]

None. Join me and the dark side always wins

 

[raymondchouku]

Well,generally the assignments I have to do on Word are always annoying cuz they're so uniformed with the form you gotta use,the way of quoting,captioning the pictures etc.

Also,they typically have to be at least 10 pages,which is just..annoying.
The worst part is adding other elements like photos and tables,the text constantly gets messed up and I have to fix it a million times,that's where I lose most of my nerves I'd say lol

Working in Powerpoint is a cool breeze compared to Word.I just slap on some pictures and quotes from the literature and I'm done.

What are you studying in school. A lot of the stuff you are talking about I never did at my alma mater

 

[JoanaIsHere]

Same, powerpoints. Especially when I get put into groups & I’m sitting back like

 

[raymondchouku]

None. Join me and the dark side always wins

The dark side. Who runs that? Sallie Mae?

 

[raymondchouku]

Same, powerpoints. Especially when I get put into groups & I’m sitting back like

Group projects are the worst. Especially when there's three of you and only one of you does anything... lol

 

[DannyDeVito]

The dark side. Who runs that? Sallie Mae?

No, I run it raymondchouku. Join me

 

[raymondchouku]

?

I'm the Switzerland of Star Wars. I refuse to choose a side.

 

[dokyeomon]

What are you studying in school. A lot of the stuff you are talking about I never did at my alma mater

Basically it's like a mini senior thesis that consists of 10-15 pages.You're assigned a topic and you do research on it.

 

[Mayday]

Not a fan of group assignments. I'm not good at clicking with people, and prefer to do things myself. However, if they don't cooperate, it bothers me. At the same time, I get really frustrated if something doesn't turn out the way I'd prefer it to.

 

[raymondchouku]

You're assigned a topic and you do research on it.

Do you have any control on what your topic is?

However, if they don't cooperate, it bothers me. At the same time, I get really frustrated if something doesn't turn out the way I'd prefer it to.

Most times with me, Group projects end up with me doing all the work. Its easier when the topic is specified per the class, but when there is a lot of leeway with the topic it goes something like, "What do you want it to be on?" "I don't know what do you want it to be on." Both parties are afraid the other is going call their idea stupid and it ends with me taking a dictator role and telling them what they are going to do. I feel like Lenin without the benefits of ruling Russia...

 

[raymondchouku]

writing i hate writing everytime i have to wirte i have a heart attack i'm afraid of writing severely

What is it about writing that you hate?

 

[Jimimis]

“Cool” assignments like making a song or a comic book 🤢

 

[raymondchouku]

if i were an American i'd definitely flunk out senior year from things like 40 page writing assignments. How do you even do that?

I assume you mean senior year of college, because I don't think anyone is writing 40 page senior year papers in high school. But personally, a forty page thesis isn't that much. First, its broken down into micro papers that are written over the course of 9 months. You write like 3-5 pages a week and then have your advisor give you the red pen treatment. And then you re-write it and repeat the process until your advisor is satisfied with what you have and then you go forth with the next part of the process. For the first semester it was basically Introduction--Literature Review--Methods--Participants--Procedure... For the second, it was Results (i.e. Findings) Discussion of Findings and Conclusion, which included basically parting thoughts and directions for future research. That really wasn't the hard part for me, as some of the graphs I had to include wouldn't even fit the page in landscape view; thus, I had to add them as a picture even though my advisor didn't like that.

Don't get me wrong, it was so stressful. My advisor (the only advisor who did Senior Research at my University for Sociology) wasn't particularly nice. He'd explain what you did that was wrong and to fix it. If he caught you making the same mistake over and over he would be very rude and caustic. I have heard stories of grown men crying over him treating them like idiots. It was something that I dreaded and was glad it didnt come to that point for me. However, I did have to meet with him every monday to discuss my progress on that paper for 9 months (except for Xmas break) and every week I dreaded it.

To get back to your point: even now when I write I do have a feel like, "Oh this sucks. I'm definitely going to fail this assignment." Even when I write something for myself that is within the context that no one else is going to ever see, I get the feeling that it sucks. One thing I have to tell myself when writing is that what I'm writing isn't necessarily going to be the final draft. It is all I can do just to keep myself from stopping what I am writing because I have a negative view of it.

So, you're not the only one who has those thoughts and feelings. Hell, even on AKP or KPS I have started to type something and edited and re-edited it until I was certain that it sounded right and wouldn't unintentionally offend someone.

 

[raymondchouku]

I still don't ever think I could come up with enough things to say to take up 40 pages without sounding completely redundant for 20 of those pages

I've come to the conclusion that Academe is all about being redundant and sounding pretentious and using circumlocution as a native language. More sanitized than Victorian England... Anyway even if you are redundant for twenty pages that means you have twenty other pages where you are not redundant and thats an accomplishment in and of itself.

 

[gongchan]

I despise powerpoints, especially when we have to present them. The worst one was back when I was in algebra 1. We had to do a project with the end result of a PowerPoint we had to read out to the class. This was during my worst year with my stutter so the whole class was pissed off at me because I took forever to read it as I kept having to restart (speech impediments are far from fun). And the project itself was so boring, too. So yeah that wasn’t a good assignment for me.