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So we have all been in a ridiculous class that required a lot of unnecessary studying. So question is: what classes have you bs'ed?
By that I mean entirely blown off, not studied, and sort of made up something related to the class for your assignments, etc. and gotten a decent grade in the class. Here's one of mine:

So I'm in my second year of college right now, studying physics. Right now I am taking a 20th century history class. When I go to class I always fall asleep so I don't actually learn any of the topics. Two days before the midterm I went to a student-run study group and just listened to what they said for two hours. On the midterm I made up events, etc. that pertained to the questions (All free response) and ended up getting an A-. Most of the exam was bs. I mean, for one of the questions i literally made up some bs story about how the geremans hated the jews and therefore any german helping them was "stabbing germany in the back"

Also, the paper for the class I made up some bs about how industrialization led to people becoming less talented and i got an A-. Entire time spent writing this paper: 1.5hours? Even better.. I got marked "okay" on grammar and mechanics, yet "excellent" on my argument that i entirely bs'ed and made up lol.

I bs almost everything.

Fuck school.

I bs'd religion when I had it, but now I'm really interested in the class (mostly because I want to argument against it)

First year geography.

From: Main Ftw
First year geography.

Oh that reminds me of history.

Learned about how the Europeans messed up everything in North America. Anyway one of the questions went something like "What do you think would be a good way for native americans to do to generate GDP" or something along the lines of.

My answer went something along the lines of "Well some very good ways of generating wealth are casinos, prostitution rings and tobacco sales. Industry wise, strip mining is provides good materials at low costs and industry that are heavy polluters are great to invest in. Nobody wants smog, so they got to put them somewhere"

The sad thing is every time it asked for an opinionated answer, I'd write BS like that. And I got it right, every single time.

"Intro to Engineering"

–> Lets have a bunch of kids (<30) who have no job experience try to teach us how to succeed as engineers.

Not the class as a whole, but in my Freshman English class I had a high enough grade that I could have essentially ignored the final and still got in the A range for the class. I tied everything possible on the exam to Star Wars IV: A New Hope, including both 2+ page essays, and earned a 99%. I got -2 (of 200) somewhere for a grammatical mistake.

From: Smartzkid
"Intro to Engineering"

–> Lets have a bunch of kids (<30) who have no job experience try to teach us how to succeed as engineers.

That one, too. <3 MechE.

all of my high school math classes

From: Zyt3x
I bs'd religion when I had it, but now I'm really interested in the class (mostly because I want to argument against it)

They still force you to learn Christianity in public schools in Norway? That's pretty sad.

From: Harry
They still force you to learn Christianity in public schools in Norway? That's pretty sad.

Thank god we don't have that in America, but hey its technically a Christian country… Class I really hated was geometry.

History paper + presentation the class before it was due (2 page paper might I add). I printed a wikipedia link. Wrote down some facts and just used as many words as possible to make the sentences bigger.

Got an A, while a girl in my class tried the same and got a C-.

In Business Class all I did everyday was talk to my friend and random stuff and never pay attention, he studied for 6 hours and got 60 something % on a test i didnt study at all ended up getting 82%, made a project on Halo with him and Halo franchise everything i wrote down on my paper for the project was wrong so i bs'd the entire presentation got a 98%. By the end of the semester i ended up with a 87% and i didn't study once and just talked every class.

most of my classes. Physics, our teacher is silly and we dont learn much anyway sadly. Gov, i wish i cared more, but meh. English is a joke and there's no point to doing anything. Video, make things up all the time. These classes are useless. I actually pay attention to real classes, like calc and other mathy interesting classes with good teachers.

Intro to Engineering…

Philosophy of Evil.

:D

Advanced programming. The teacher gave us a bunch of links to Scratch tutorials and told us to go at it. I was like "Wtf, this isn't advanced programming, this is drag and drop bullshit!" The teacher said it was harder than it looked, but I proved them wrong :) I finished the semester course in about a week, the assignments were very basic. Now I get to surf the forums for an hour every day because I have nothing to do in that class until the end of the year :p

From: Echo_
Advanced programming. The teacher gave us a bunch of links to Scratch tutorials and told us to go at it. I was like "Wtf, this isn't advanced programming, this is drag and drop bullshit!" The teacher said it was harder than it looked, but I proved them wrong :) I finished the semester course in about a week, the assignments were very basic. Now I get to surf the forums for an hour every day because I have nothing to do in that class until the end of the year :p

Haha that's like my intro to computer science class (I took it for fun). The prof and TA's always told us it's much harder than it looks. EVERY class I was finished with the assignments within 15 minutes. They were 3-hour classes.

From: smartzkid
"Intro to Engineering"

–> Lets have a bunch of kids (<30) who have no job experience try to teach us how to succeed as engineers.

Gotta love those classes. I've sat in on a few of the engineering classes here at my university and they're all a joke. I help the engineers with their homework no problem, and it all makes sense to me :P

From: kingarabian
Class I really hated was geometry.

Hah! I slept through that class in high school! It was the funniest thing ever! I bs'd 3 homework assignments at the beginning of the year, got 100% on all 3 of them, then changed the title on them every day and turned it in again, same page and everything. Got full credit on everything!

Also it's funny because the teacher yelled LOUD at anyone who was sleeping. I sat in the back behind a really big guy so he could never see me sleeping! :D

Geography by far, every year I've had it (7-10) I just kept bullshitting the exam essay's and short responses (population trends, coastal management.. the works). Came below rank 10 every year though :D

From: Harry
They still force you to learn Christianity in public schools in Norway? That's pretty sad.

Not only Christianity, but Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. That were before High School though

But the book we used were like 10 years old and 60% of the pages were about Christianity… It's pretty sad, yeah :(

At uni I bs'd calculus 1 and 2, philosophy, and informatics 1 and 2 (we learned python and html and stuff). At high school, I bs'd english and IT (computer class, was more about manageing software projects and how to manage coding a project, rather than actually learning to code). :)

Put in the hard work for Physics and Chemistry though (at uni and at high school).

At high school last year, I bs'd physics, and IT, and this year its accounting and English :D

Comments on this thread reminded me of a class I had the enjoyment of BSing in highschool: AP Java.

My teacher was a math teacher at my school, it was his first year teaching a programming course. He had been a server programmer for most of his life - he would often talk about FORTRAN. Naturally, he wasn't very accustomed to OOP, nor did he know anything about the java libraries. At the beginning of the class, he was struggling with some of the java syntax.

I give him a lot of credit for reading the course books over the summer before the class. Even so, he had questions for me every class to clarify what we'd be going over for that day.

It was nice because I finished every assignment within the first 5-10 minutes of class and could spend the rest of the time on my own projects or playing Halo and CS:S. Luckily, some of the other guys in the class caught on pretty quickly, so I had other people to play with on most days.

For the midterm and final we all finished with more than half the time remaining. We had some pretty epic games - we even got the teacher to join in a couple rounds of Halo :)

i bs'd exercise physiology didn't study at all copied off this kid who let me Ended up with a B+

From: Smartzkid
Comments on this thread reminded me of a class I had the enjoyment of BSing in highschool: AP Java.

My teacher was a math teacher at my school, it was his first year teaching a programming course. He had been a server programmer for most of his life - he would often talk about FORTRAN. Naturally, he wasn't very accustomed to OOP, nor did he know anything about the java libraries. At the beginning of the class, he was struggling with some of the java syntax.

I give him a lot of credit for reading the course books over the summer before the class. Even so, he had questions for me every class to clarify what we'd be going over for that day.

It was nice because I finished every assignment within the first 5-10 minutes of class and could spend the rest of the time on my own projects or playing Halo and CS:S. Luckily, some of the other guys in the class caught on pretty quickly, so I had other people to play with on most days.

For the midterm and final we all finished with more than half the time remaining. We had some pretty epic games - we even got the teacher to join in a couple rounds of Halo :)

Haha got to love it when the teacher joins in! Unfortunately I didn't have any cool teachers like that in high school. I did get the ASB director to let me install CoD on the school's XPS laptop so I'd just go chill in there at random times during the day and play some CoD. It was pretty epic to be able to leave class at any time because I had to "help the tech team with the software" or some bs story like that lol!

10th grade, all I do is bullshit.

Spanish 1 & 2.
I had only taken these two because many of us thought we needed two foreign credits to graduate, and we were wrong. :/ Kinda a slap in the face to find out I didn't need either one, but no losses I suppose because a bunch of use had a cheat system we used through both years.

I mean, for one of the questions i literally made up some bs story about how the geremans hated the jews and therefore any german helping them was "stabbing germany in the back"

That's a valid point, not bs, if race A is against race B, someone from race A helping race B is backstabbing race A.

All of them.

Just finished my engineering computer science exam in 12 minutes, 7 pages of if - else, while - do- for -do and basic c synthax, a hour left til the end:P

nice@mainftw, I'm doing the same thing, my engineering programming class is retardly easy…

Spanish one, and two next year.

All of them

macro and micro economics. B+ and an A respectively, went to 4 classes all year, including my midterm and final. If you want to pass a class by reading 10 pages or less, these are the classes for you.

From: Blumblebee
macro and micro economics. B+ and an A respectively, went to 4 classes all year, including my midterm and final. If you want to pass a class by reading 10 pages or less, these are the classes for you.

So true, I did the same thing for macro.

not much to bs in pharmacy :'((((((((((((((((((( besides common undergrad classes like pysch, ethic philosophy, etc..

Oh I do this all the time, except at maths. Economics are most fun: spend 3o (out of 120) minutes, be the first one to leave and made it perfectly.

Dossed pretty much everything last year (year 10).
Shit myself this year…