It's probably safe to say most (if not all) of us got up to no good at some point while growing up, particularly in school. So, when Reddit user u/Bmchris44 recently shared the following viral tweet from @TheMikeChase, it reminded other Reddit users of their similar antics...
Sometimes I think about how I wrote a paper 2 weeks late in 7th grade and slipped it under my teacher’s desk after putting a footprint on it and she apologized for losing my paper and giving me a 0 and corrected my grade to a B+ and digital submission has just ruined the magic.
...here are some of the funniest and most OMG responses:
1. "I failed to turn in an assignment. The next week, the teacher called each student up to give them the assignment back. I felt rather sad, knowing I wasn't going to get one back, since I hadn't done it in the first place. But as she was calling students I had an idea. After she stopped reading the names, I raised my hand and asked, 'teacher, what about mine?' She fumbled around her bag, checked some notes, scratched her head and said, 'I'm so sorry, I must have lost it. Just get me another copy and I'll grade it first thing.' I feel bad about it now."
2. "Back when we had to email papers, I forgot to submit a paper before the deadline so I intentionally flubbed the email so I’d get a bounce back, changed the date and time in the bounce back message, and forwarded it to the teacher at the correct address with an explanation of 'what happened,' an apology, and my paper attached. Got an A."
3. "In high school, I had a teacher who made us turn in weekly reports on science articles. It became really evident that she wasn’t reading them, so my friend and I literally just started changing the date on them and turning them back in."
4. "In high school, halfway through my paper I literally wrote 'mooooo moooo,' then a few sentences to disguise it, then didn’t end the paper because I suspected she was only reading the first page. I got an A."
5. "I had a teacher in middle school who was the most unorganized human I’ve ever known. I completely flaked and didn’t do a project, completely forgot about it. A couple weeks after it was due, the teacher asked if I turned one in because she didn’t see it. It wasn’t my plan, but it just came out. … I said I turned it in. She told me she guessed she misplaced it and just gave me an A. Still feel guilty about that."
6. "In seventh grade, we had a science project that was given to us at the beginning of the year and needed to be completed by the end of the year for the science fair. My dad and I thought it would be brilliant to build an anechoic chamber. Needless to say, we didn't do shit on it all year. So the night before it was due, we decided to tell the teacher it had absorbed the sound so well that it blew up. My dad put my arm in a sling, painted a black eye on my face, and gave me a jar of ashes to take to the science fair. My teacher gave me an A+ and made me explain to the audience what happened. I felt so guilty for years, but now it's everyone's favorite story at family reunions, so there's that..."
7. "I would carry a floppy disk with me to every class and if an assignment was due that I’d forgotten about, I’d ask to go to the computer lab to print it off the disk and spend half an hour pounding out an essay and blame it on having to wait for the only computer with a disk drive that still worked."
8. "I had a friend that was super disorganized and when the teacher was going around collecting papers on the second week of class, he dropped his binder and papers went everywhere. The teacher just looked at him and said, 'class, disorganization is the sign of a creative mind' and gave him a 90. He didn’t do the paper and was just trying to stall."
9. "Back in college, I submitted a paper that wasn't finished as a bunch of squares and circles. When confronted about it, I feigned ignorance and told the teacher that I could submit the paper as I still had it in a USB stick. My friend next to me asked me why I turned in a word document full of circles and squares. I told him I didn't finish the paper on time so I threw a Hail Mary and it worked."
10. "Once, I didn't finish a paper in time. Opened an image in a hex editor, copied all the code, pasted it into a Word document, and emailed it to the teacher. When he opened it at school like 'WTF is this shit?' I feigned surprise and said something must have happened with the email. I said I'll email it tonight when I get home. Managed to finish the paper and get a good grade on it, no late penalty."
11. "Back in high school, we used to have our attendance tracked in this program called 'PowerSchool.' Well, we figured out that there was a username 'substitute' and the password was always a color and the day of the month (so, like, today the password could be orange12). We used to skip so many classes and then go in and change our absence to present. It was great."
12. "I always did the 'please see attached' thing and didn’t attach anything. They 100% always knew, but it worked every time."
13. "One time in French class, we had to do an assignment that was half oral and half written. I had no issue with the written part, but the oral part sucked, so I tried to avoid doing mine. Our teacher was very forgetful, so I just stalled for like two weeks. When she finally asked why I hadn't done my oral presentation yet, I told her I'd already done it and she'd marked it. She was just like, 'Oh, I must have lost the marking paper, did I tell you what you got?' So I just told her she gave me a merit (the equivalent of a B or an A- in my country), and she said, 'Well, I have your written half here and it's a merit also so that seems right' lmao. I have no idea what I would have done had she remembered I didn't actually do it, but I got away with it."
14. "I remember I had a middle school history teacher that would not really look over any assignments. At some point, we turned in a questions and answers assignment and I turned it in with a bunch of bogus answers that had nothing to do with history. I got a 10/10."
"Like a month or two later, the teacher was fired because we actually needed to learn history if we wanted to pass the high school entrance exam at the end of the year. The parents complained and I remember going into the principal's office to show an assignment where an answer to who discovered America was 'cookies and milk.'"
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.