I Successfully Graduated College Without Ever...

[barkley]

writing more than 2 term papers. i just took the 2 originals and would resubmit them with a new coversheet that offered a "compelling arguement" as to why the topic was related to the particular course. only problem i ever encontered were comments near the end of "you could have chosen more current references". (truth be told-one started out as a highschool term paper so the references were a bit stale some 7 years later).

confess all, confess-it's good for you to get this "monkey" off your back

 

[Dislifer]

Gotta love it!!!

 

[BeckyEsq]

Can I ask what your major was?


I wrote two papers a week in college.

 

[jimmiej]

I Successfully Graduated College Without Ever...

drinking a beer!

 

[minkydog]

Wish I'd thought of that. Of course, my senior paper "Candida Infections in Pregnant and Diabetic Women" probably would have been TMI for most of my professors.

 

[Patch'sD]

...... Without Going to Graduation

 

[AllyandJack]

I Successfully Graduated College Without Ever.....

Taking a math class! I placed out of the required classes with my SAT scores (dumb luck, I assure you). Since it wasn't required, I happily bypassed everything to do with math.

 

[barkley]

Can I ask what your major was?


I wrote two papers a week in college.

Environmental Education, Training and Planning (it was one of the options for those seeking a teaching credential), Psychology & Early Childhood Education.

also got another degree in theatre arts-don't think we ever had to submit any papers for that.

 

[barkley]

Wish I'd thought of that. Of course, my senior paper "Candida Infections in Pregnant and Diabetic Women" probably would have been TMI for most of my professors.

well now that is where the compelling arugument comes in -as well as a change of title to "Pertinant Continuing Education and Professional Development Concepts for xxxxx Professors:Candida Infections in Pregnant and Diabetic Women".

 

[Rock'n Robin]

As an English major, I wrote many papers. However, when I got my Master's in Secondary Education, I wrote two. I used one of those, on adolescent suicide, for 3 or 4 different classes. They no longer offer the generic "secondary ed." degree. Now I wish I'd gone into administration and I could be a dean of students yelling at kids for wearing hootchy skirts or baggy pants.
Robin M.

 

[MsLeFever]

also got another degree in theatre arts-don't think we ever had to submit any papers for that.

Where did you go to school and as a theatre educator SHAME on your profs!

I was just about to say that I don't have any problem with say, a theatre history paper and a Shakespeare paper having the same basis. However I know that in my classes you wouldn't have been able to recycle as the assignments are quite specific! Sounds like you had lazy profs!

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

writing more than 2 term papers. i just took the 2 originals and would resubmit them with a new coversheet that offered a "compelling arguement" as to why the topic was related to the particular course. only problem i ever encontered were comments near the end of "you could have chosen more current references". (truth be told-one started out as a highschool term paper so the references were a bit stale some 7 years later).

confess all, confess-it's good for you to get this "monkey" off your back

OMG me too!! I did one on Salem Witchcraft. I got English and History out of it in high school. Then in college I got History and English out of it. I majored in psychology so I did have to do experiments and studies but term papers...nope only one. This same term paper was used for my sister in high school and my cousin's husband in college. I never got the comment about references b/c there were not a lot of current references on something that happened over 300 yrs ago. Unfortunately, in grad school I could not make use of my term paper so I needed to retire it.

 

[MScott1851]

I only went to class about one hour per week my last semester...about 10 of us out of my graduating nursing class did this...By the end, you either have it or you don't...

They changed my only class on Mondays to an on-line class, and it was a review class of everything we had covered the past three semesters. As we clicked through the screens, we got credit. At the end of the screens, you had a test. I sat and clicked without reading about 30 minutes a day for two weeks, took the test and made a 92, and I was done for the semester.

I had two classes on Wednesday and Friday at 10am and 1:00pm, Managment in Nursing and Pediatrics. We had a test in Management every Wednesday, and a test in Pediatrics every Friday. I would go take my Management test, then say, "I'm so pooped from that that I can't face Peds today." On Fridays, I would skip Management to study for my Peds test later that afternoon. We got to leave as soon as we turned our tests in, so I spent about 15 minutes in each class per week. Our professors didn't take attendance the last semester, they were of the attitude that we were seniors, and if we skipped class and failed it was our own fault.

Tuesdays and Thursdays were left open for us to do our required clinical observation hours and preceptorships. I didn't play...I signed up for 12 hour shifts on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for the first three and a half weeks of school, and finished VERY quickly, leaving those three days open the rest of the semester. I ended up working about 30 hours a week, I had PLENTY of time to get my senioritis-party-like-a-rock-star out, and sustain a relationship. Good times.

Before you freak out...I made a 4.0 that semester, graduated, and got a great job... You learn everything you REALLY need to know about nursing when you start working and can actually get your hands on patients with your preceptor's guidance. We weren't allowed to do anything invasive in school, and had no real immersion or continuity.

 

[Kimberly]

You know, I might have been in the same boat as the orginal poster. But I wrote lab reports instead (3 to 5 per week) which could be anywhere from 5 to 25 pages long. My senior research project included a report that was 25 pages long, plus a research paper on the subject...

 

[hugsquared]

I only went to class about one hour per week my last semester....about 10 of us out of my graduating nursing class did this...By the end, you either have it or you don't...

They changed my only class on Mondays to an on-line class, and it was a review class of everything we had covered the past three semesters. As we clicked through the screens, we got credit. At the end of the screens, you had a test. I sat and clicked without reading about 30 minutes a day for two weeks, took the test and made a 92, and I was done for the semester.

I had two classes on Wednesday and Friday at 10am and 1:00pm, Managment in Nursing and Pediatrics. We had a test in Management every Wednesday, and a test in Pediatrics every Friday. I would go take my Management test, then say, "I'm so pooped from that that I can't face Peds today." On Fridays, I would skip Management to study for my Peds test later that afternoon. We got to leave as soon as we turned our tests in, so I spent about 15 minutes in each class per week. Our professors didn't take attendance the last semester, they were of the attitude that we were seniors, and if we skipped class and failed it was our own fault.

Tuesdays and Thursdays were left open for us to do our required clinical observation hours and preceptorships. I didn't play...I signed up for 12 hour shifts on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday for the first three and a half weeks of school, and finished VERY quickly, leaving those three days open the rest of the semester. I ended up working about 30 hours a week, I had PLENTY of time to get my senioritis-party-like-a-rock-star out, and sustain a relationship. Good times.

Before you freak out...I made a 4.0 that semester, graduated, and got a great job... You learn everything you REALLY need to know about nursing when you start working and can actually get your hands on patients with your preceptor's guidance. We weren't allowed to do anything invasive in school, and had no real immersion or continuity.

Dang...where I went to nursing school, they were the attendance nazi's. If you missed 4 minutes for bathroom time you had to have an excuse from the undertaker. It must have been nice...I had to bust my hump my last semester...and am sitting here jealous of you

 

[arminnie]

I Successfully Graduated College Without Ever.....

Taking a math class! I placed out of the required classes with my SAT scores (dumb luck, I assure you). Since it wasn't required, I happily bypassed everything to do with math.

I bypassed everything I could that wasn't math related. I only wrote one paper my entire undergraduate college career. I took things like chemistry, economic statistics, physics, etc all because they are so math related - even music is very mathematical.

I was able to graduate in 3 years because math (if you get it) is easy. I rarely went to math classes. The tests were usually open book. I never did homework. I could take 21 hours in a semester and work 25 hours a week because I didn't have all of the extra work that some of the other majors required.

I guess I learned enough though as I graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Tulane and had no trouble getting into both Stanford and Harvard for grad school.

Just don't ask me to do anything creative. I have no talents in that area. I admire those of you who do.

 

[MScott1851]

Dang...where I went to nursing school, they were the attendance nazi's. If you missed 4 minutes for bathroom time you had to have an excuse from the undertaker. It must have been nice...I had to bust my hump my last semester...and am sitting here jealous of you

I did go to class the first three semesters...I swear! Well, most of the time, anyway. I was what you called a well-rounded student. I would rather have had a good time and the whole college experience, and settled for a B in things that I could have made an A in, if I had stayed home every night and not been social. My nursing school had an 87% pass rate at the time, so it was a quality program, and pretty hard to get into...they only take 50 students in each class.

I have always done very well on standardized tests, and knew just enough about a little of everything to do exceptionally well on essay tests. I was always a really good student, and learned early in elementary school the "divide and conquer" and "choose your battle wisely" method of studying. Split it up into equal parts, don't waste time going over stuff you already know, and any subject can be conquered. The people in my class who sat down every single night and read until their eyes failed and doggedly memorized inconsequential things without picking out what information was important and pertinent did very poorly. They would be so pissed off when my friends and I would breeze into class on Friday with club stamps from the night before on our hands and make an A, while they had stayed up until 2am studying and still made a B or C.

We studied smarter, not harder. I hope my kids will follow that example one day!

 

[hugsquared]

I did go to class the first three semesters...I swear! Well, most of the time, anyway. I was what you called a well-rounded student. I would rather have had a good time and the whole college experience, and settled for a B in things that I could have made an A in, if I had stayed home every night and not been social.

I have always done very well on standardized tests, and knew just enough about a little of everything to do exceptionally well on essay tests. I was always a really good student, and learned early in elementary school the "divide and conquer" and "choose your battle wisely" method of studying. Split it up into equal parts, don't waste time going over stuff you already know, and any subject can be conquered. The people in my class who sat down every single night and read until their eyes failed and doggedly memorized inconsequential things without picking out what information was important and pertinent did very poorly. They would be so pissed off when my friends and I would breeze into class on Friday with club stamps from the night before on our hands and make an A, while they had stayed up until 2am studying and still made a B or C.

We studied smarter, not harder. I hope my kids will follow that example one day!

LOL...I must admit, I did my fair share of sorority meetings and fraternity parties...and have staggered into many a class with a hangover. But if I was puking my guts up, I had to be in class...with a garbage pail in tow

 

[MScott1851]

LOL...I must admit, I did my fair share of sorority meetings and fraternity parties...and have staggered into many a class with a hangover. But if I was puking my guts up, I had to be in class...with a garbage pail in tow

Hehehe.. This is horrible, but I PASSED out in class one day...I had been out late the night before and had overslept, so I didn't eat. We were in school lab and were supposed to check off on foley insertion and Dean Nazi decided to observe. Well, I must have locked my knees because everything went gray and I heard my instructor yell, "CATCH HER BOYS, SHE'S GOING DOWN!"

I woke up on the floor with a cold towel on my head, and Dean Nazi saying, "Are you menstrual?" I didn't have the courage to say, "No, I'm hungover and hungry!" so I just nodded and got up, asked to be checked off next and ended up getting a Big U (which was very bad, you could only have three of them a semester) because I was still clammy and I used my forearm to wipe my forehead while holding the foley. I broke sterile field... Go figure.

 

[DisneyDotty]

writing more than 2 term papers. i just took the 2 originals and would resubmit them with a new coversheet that offered a "compelling arguement" as to why the topic was related to the particular course. only problem i ever encontered were comments near the end of "you could have chosen more current references". (truth be told-one started out as a highschool term paper so the references were a bit stale some 7 years later).

confess all, confess-it's good for you to get this "monkey" off your back

Umm, don't take this the wrong way, but, uh, where did you go to college? I'd like to be able to steer my daughter away from it--don't want to waste lots of tuition $$$$ on a place that allowed you to do this... Again, I mean no offense...