general have you ever got to write a ridiculous paper for school?

[BlueStreak98 828]

I entered in a writing competition through my English class in middle school once, where we were given a prompt and had 60 minutes to churn out a story based on it. I had a horrible cold that weekend, too, so I wasn't really expecting to do very well. Anyway, the prompt for one of the rounds was "Your Title Is 'The Only _____.' Tell the story." Wanting to do something ridiculous, I came up with the title "The Only Muffin" and went from there.

 

I won that round of the competition.

Edited December 14, 2016 by BlueStreak98

[Puddle Duck 142]

I don't remember ever writing anything really weird for papers, but most of my English classes required us to write a daily journal. I used those journals to work on the stories I would have just written in a different notebook. That was the easiest bit of homework ever.

[ChikaChan 7,323]

A three paragraphs about Green turtles when I used to go to Elementary School  :awuh:

[Catpone Cerberus 23,588]

Not sure if it is "paper" but on 1st grade I wrote story about suitcase that through happenings ended up killing whole city to thirst.

[Megalomaniac 100]

Pretty much everything my teachers ever taught me was ridiculous. They were dumb.

 

I was also a mentally gifted kid.

Edited December 14, 2016 by Megalomaniac

[Lord Bradley 1,319]

Well, this one time we all got the assignment to write a novel, 100 pages minimum, over the span of a month. Could be literally about anything, as long as it either made sense in the long run or made ya think. Wrote a romance between a dragon and a knight myself X3

 

Good lord, that was difficult, but fun in a way

[Zyrael 1,471]

every paper I had to write for school was ridiculous. 

[idunnomaybe 344]

In my Senior year of high school for Photography class we had to watch a 7 minute video of a butterly flying in slow motion then had to write a 1200 word essay on what it meant and its deeper meaning


the class started off really well but by the end it just became really artsy fartsy and we had to take "life photos" of among other things female models

do you know how awkward it is to tell a male teenager to take photos of a Naked model and stare a her for long periods.... 

the girls were fine all the guys were red faced the entire time and strategically covering their crotches it was the worst bloody thing ever  

[Kiri 7,288]

I once had to draft a prank letter to a food restaurant as an actual high school assignment. Looking back now, I honestly don't know what my teacher was thinking. XD

[KTAG 4,083]

Last semester my English teacher gave us a guideline for our papers but pretty much gave us the freedom to do whatever we wanted as long as it fell into those guidelines. so we all wrote about different things that related to one overall subject.

 

I literally wrote a 4 page paper analyzing a Taylor Swift music video. I got an A on it too lmao. xD

Lets see...uh...Oh yeah. Everytime I have to write a paper. It's also like 3-5 pages due in like 2 weeks while I have several other assignments to do. It is painful.

[EpicEnergy 23,176]

Not as far as I can remember.

[TBD 17,254]

Never thought writing paper is ridiculous, since I enjoyed writing papers. I remember my history teacher asked us to write 4 page based on Medieval history and we have to pick out one event. I ended up getting ahead of myself and wrote 10 pages on whole semester worth lesson instead. I also wrote a paper on my research based on Multiple intelligent for college. But sadly my professor has to leave so we didn't get to finish it to get it published....  and our research has reached a deadline so they stopped funding us anyways.

Another two papers that I remember was one is about a psychology's aspect  on Batman's villains  where I would talk about their mental health and behaviors and how it's effect them and the society.  Along with talking about the psychology in criminology along the line. Another is about Star Wars, in a philosophical aspect in light vs dark where I compared Yoda/Luke and Palpatine/Anakins.  Discussing the "gray" area on what makes a person a hero vs what makes a person a villain or in between?

Yep, these papers are my proud work. 

[Splashee 28,563]

No, but I had teachers who was ridiculous at times.

[ExplosionMare 18,062]

3 hours ago, TBD said:

Never thought writing paper is ridiculous, since I enjoyed writing papers. I remember my history teacher asked us to write 4 page based on Medieval history and we have to pick out one event. I ended up getting ahead of myself and wrote 10 pages on whole semester worth lesson instead. I also wrote a paper on my research based on Multiple intelligent for college. But sadly my professor has to leave so we didn't get to finish it to get it published....  and our research has reached a deadline so they stopped funding us anyways.

Another two papers that I remember was one is about a psychology's aspect  on Batman's villains  where I would talk about their mental health and behaviors and how it's effect them and the society.  Along with talking about the psychology in criminology along the line. Another is about Star Wars, in a philosophical aspect in light vs dark where I compared Yoda/Luke and Palpatine/Anakins.  Discussing the "gray" area on what makes a person a hero vs what makes a person a villain or in between?

Yep, these papers are my proud work. 

The psyche papers sound so fun!

I had to write history papers all the time during tests and I only had one class period to write them on top of multiple choice. We could prepare for it outside of class but we didn’t have access to EVERY resource on the test. The prompts were always vague too and even though it said “to what extent” somewhere in the title, somehow I was always wrong. Somehow I was wrong on something that was meant to be open-ended, which doesn’t make any sense.

[TBD 17,254]

19 minutes ago, ExplosionMare said:

The psyche papers sound so fun!

 

It was! I love batman's villains so it was interesting to write and "diagnosing" the characters. I think I still have it somewhere in my google doc. But I was so psyche when Joker movie (2019) was out because most of the things I wrote back in 2014 was almost pinpointed to that movie. Even I wish the movie was out earlier so I can add more stronger statements to my paper. 

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,440]

I once wrote a paper on the “film” Wavelength, which is nearly an hour of an empty room with little happening in it. The paper had to be three pages so I just bullshitted my way through.

Then there was the time I had to write a paper about note taking. In college. 
I might as well have had to write a paper about writing a paper.

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

I wouldn't call this ridiculous, but it was certainly weird. Freshman year of high school we got a creative writing assignment that was left totally open in terms of prompt. I ended up writing a four page story about a young spartan-esque soldier who fell in love with someone and died almost immediately afterward when a group of mercenaries or something attacked at night. Being the open furry I was, the characters were all anthropomorphic animals.

[BlankFlank777 199]

Going to school was never really my choice. All assignments were ridiculous.

[Prospekt 11,018]

I've written a few of these.

The worst one was the main paper for a college scientifically writing course. Had to use GSA format instead of my usual APA because the instructor was a geologist. Turns out that's a format with relatively few available resources out there to help you learn it, not to mention my instructor wasn't very helpful with this format. Even now, a couple years later, there's only a little bit more on the internet in terms of GSA style instructional materials. So I struggled quite a bit to perfect it and got a lot of points knocked off the rough draft (which was worth around a third or so of our final grade in the class) because I flubbed two in-text citations.

I hated it.  

[Clawdeen 12,189]

I remember back in like middle school two kids acted up when we had a guest speaker so the teacher made all of write a ten page front and back paper on why we shouldn’t act out in class and it was due the next day.

Instead of punishing the two that acted up we all got in trouble for it.

[Partialgeek514 5,011]

I remember that in one writing course I took, the first assignment was to write a love letter to an inanimate object. I still remember it as the best paper I ever got to write! And if you want to know, I wrote the love letter to my Derpy plushie.

[Sir Hugsalot 9,287]

Most of my papers in uni were ridiculous. It's not the topic that was the issue though, but the page count requirement. 

I know not everyone would agree, but I was always fan of "straight to the point" approach with no excessive wording or descriptions barely (or not at all) related to the topic itself. In the uni I had to write in such ridiculous ways that I really felt like throwing away a bag of trash when submitting a thesis. I don't like having to write *too* much on a matter that can be easily resolved with less, feels more like pandering and showing off than actually making a point. I love the approach, where You make what You know as understandable as possible also to those who may not be familiar with the topic. 

And mind You I am not against writing a lot, I myself don't shy away from it when the topic requires much thought I just... prefer the "a lot" to have actual purpose, not serve as a way to artificially stretch entire thesis to fit unrealistic page count demand.

[ExplosionMare 18,062]

I had to write a paper basically glorifying Romeo and Juliet. I also had to read it back to my teachers and I cringed very hard when I called it a “great play”.

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

None that I can think of, most of my English teachers never gave us any freedom on what to write, so most of the time we all just had to write about serious topics.