Stoned Student Tackles Oedipus

Hmm. They still work for me. That site must be getting a lot of traffic. Give it some time.

If you know how to use BitTorrent, you can download the essay here.

Fake or not it's pretty funny. The written threat and citing tubgirl as reference is "priceless". The TA/teacher handwriting looks suspiciously childish thought.

Speaking of students doing class work while high, I saw something much weirder/sadder while in highschool.

This guy I was sitting next to in Spanish class -- white guy with dreadlocks wearing Jamaica-themed clothing -- was stoned, but no one seemed to notice. The teacher handed out the test and announced that we had 30 minutes or whatever to finish it. The guy picks up the test sheet slowly, looks at it for a while in a daze, slowly turns it over, looks at that side for a while, turns it back to the other side and places it on the table. He then proceeds to carefully put his hand smack in the middle of it in a middle-finger-flipped gesture and very, very deliberately traces his hand with his pencil. He takes the entire test time to do this. Just before he finishes, the teacher announces that we have a minute left. He looks up, looks around kind of confused, looks back down at the paper, slowly flips his pencil over and starts carefully erasing the tracing. He was still erasing when I turned in my test and left, so I don't know what happened when he handed it in.

He ONLY got one point off for each curse word? That must be a pretty lenient class, if this is real, that is. I've had professors ready to fail you if you wrote a fragment or misspelled more than a few words; I could only imagine what a professor like that would do in THIS case at the first sign of cursing.

That was hilarious! But, I don't think that there's any way that's real, unless college paper standards have dropped way below what they used to be. What teacher would actually give somebody a 61% for that? Talk about lenient!!

That is one of the most hilarious examples of the failure of the USA's system of "higher" education! I don't think I want any of what the author was smoking. Nevertheless, Shannon, if you want a good example of just how much the American tertiary educational standards have dropped in the past couple decades, log onto any of the e-University sites; (a not-to be-named one in Arizona comes to mind). If you even send a simple inquiry to them regarding any of their programs, they won't leave you alone for at least a year. And talk about the prices!!

Back in 1975, I sat thru a college introduction speech given by a full-fledged professor, who told the audience that, "If you think you are going to have a valuable experience in higher education by attending here, you must realize that we are only a business that sells courses; nothing more, and nothing less." Extropolate from there.

Awesome. I went through in the 80's, I can see a paper like this getting a passing grade. When it comes to English lit or philosophy you can get some good grades for daring and creativity.

Especially if you can make some ancient greek story that doesn't make any fucking sense relate to anything modern.

My philosophy instructor was stoned the whole time anyway, he would have loved this paper.

That's really damn funny, but it has to be fake. I REEEALY doubt that a teacher would actually read / grade the entire paper after seeing that the first paragraph calls the main character a "f*cking douche bag". Also the comments are way too thorough, I mean, I don't remember any of my papers being so heavily edited ever; and for a paper like this? Say what you want about the American educational system, but it's not THIS screw up!

I too think it's fake, but hilariously funny. I've used the f-bomb in a paper before and had no points reduced. For a film class, the curse word was in a quote from the film.

It is entirely possible that the student knew he could fail this paper and still pass the class if it was a points based grading system. The TA also could have to continue grading a paper or risk getting demoted. 😛

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I think that the author who wrote it graded it himself. He thinks his essay is way more amusing than it actually is & thought he'd keep it going by writing 'witty' little comments throughout as if it was actually handed in and graded. And if this IS actually graded where the hell did the teacher grading this get their diploma?! Note on page 3:
'Where is the text!' Should TECHNICALLY be 'Where is the text ?!' and further down: 'Page is to big' should really be: 'Page is TOO big.' (And who would actually write a comment like that anyway???)
Stupid little anal points, of course, but you would like to think that TEACHERS wouldn't make grammatical errors like this.
Unless of course, the 'teacher' is actually a childish frat boy dumbass with minimal writing ability and awfully unattractive/borderline psychopathic penmanship.
On a side note - the worst was when you got a paper back with the dreaded big QUESTION MARK. Know what I mean? Like you would hand in an essay in grammar school and sometimes a few sentences (perhaps an entire paragraph) would be circled in red and then a question mark scrawled above it.
It was spirit-crushing to me as child to see the QUESTION MARK on an essay I had wriiten. It's equivalent to a teacher simply writing 'What the hell is THIS?'

i laugh

Hrm... this isn't cool at all. I read this paper a while ago... and found it really amusing. I remembered it the other day and wanted to show a friend... so I searched for the site. And when I find it... the link isn't active anymore. If anyone reads this and knows how I can get my hands on the essay, please tell me!

if you don't think that paper is absolutely hilarious then you're gay. no gay sex.