What's the stupidest thing you've done as an undergrad?

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I'm taking genetics 301 this summer in a condensed 9 week version, and this week is the week of our final. It's a MTWThF class and for some reason I had it in my head that the final was on a Friday from the start of the class. I don't know why. But anyway, I've missed a lot of class just from being distracted and I was sick for almost 3 weeks with pneumonia. I've still managed to do well though by going to recitations and lots of cramming the night before exams. Averaged probably 85-90 on the 3 normal exams.

So I'm walking towards the lecture hall this morning (Thursday) and I can see in there and everyone looks like they're taking an exam. First thing that comes to mind "No... no, it can't be." Maybe it was professor evaluations? But the prof was in there. It wasn't adding up. My heart stopped for probably a good 5 seconds as everything started coming together in my head. We had an e-mail from the prof saying "Don't forget to turn in your homework before you take the exam." The due-date on the homework was Thursday. Crap crap crap. I called my girlfriend who was at home and confirmed it in my syllabus. I was standing in front of my final with almost no preparation, no calculator, no pencil to take the exam, nothing. I almost left.

I ended up taking it and it was completely embarrassing having to ask for a pencil after the exam had already started (they started 30 mins earlier, as stated in a previous e-mail.) I did my best without a calculator, but man... I had no preparation whatsoever and I completely bombed it. 🙁

I'm totally depressed right now and I'm about to start drowning my sorrows in beer. Has anyone ever done anything this bad? 🙁
 
Found SDN.

kidding obviously.
 
Went to lecture?
 
Went to lecture in Physics. Learned NOTHING in class. The teacher was at least 90 years old and was incomprehensible. The test had NOTHING (not kidding a bit) to do with the lecture.
 
premedrose said:
Went to lecture in Physics. Learned NOTHING in class. The teacher was at least 90 years old and was incomprehensible. The test had NOTHING (not kidding a bit) to do with the lecture.
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If thats the dumbest thing that youve done in college, than I praise you!
 
vomitted in a tuba ala Frank Drebin.
 
In my freshman year I took a Biology class. I was like the best student... I read every single word in the textbook word for word and took great notes. During the test I was so nervous. My hands were shaking and sweating (I could see the sweat going down my hand- I know extremely GROSS). I was taking the test and noticed that the person next to me had completely diff. answers. I was soo scared. I though I was wrong since almost everyone in the class were at least 2 years older than me. So I did something so stupid... I... copied some of her answers to the questions. I didn't know that the prof. had diff. versions for the test. I felt completely stupid. I got a 66% on that test. But... I managed to get an A in the class by getting above a 95% on the rest of the tests (except the final in which I think I got like an 85% or something).
 
My friends and I drove around town in a Jeep during hurricane Katrina. Just for the hell of it. We've also chased down several tornadoes (unsuccessfully) and will try to finally get one this Fall.
 
premedrose said:
In my freshman year I took a Biology class. I was like the best student... I read every single word in the textbook word for word and took great notes. During the test I was so nervous. My hands were shaking and sweating (I could see the sweat going down my hand- I know extremely GROSS). I was taking the test and noticed that the person next to me had completely diff. answers. I was soo scared. I though I was wrong since almost everyone in the class were at least 2 years older than me. So I did something so stupid... I... copied some of her answers to the questions. I didn't know that the prof. had diff. versions for the test. I felt completely stupid. I got a 66% on that test. But... I managed to get an A in the class by getting above a 95% on the rest of the tests (except the final in which I think I got like an 85% or something).
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You're lucky a 66% was the only thing you got.
 
Signed up for a summer class that I was SURE started on July 1st. Around mid-June I decided to check to see what I owed for the class so I could pay it. Turns out the class started June 1st and I had missed the first 3 weeks of class. Had to withdraw, but because I was already past the add/drop period, I had to pay 50% of the cost (tuition on a pay-per-hour basis).

So basically I said "Here college. Have $600. I don't mind."

Arg. 😡
 
Not going to physics classes bc they were a waste of my time. Grade dropped from A+ to B+ bc of attendance, lame.
 
I once drank 3/4 of a 1.75 of Seagrams 7 in about 2 hours. My girlfriend took me to the hospital where I, apparently, blew a .28 5 hours after my last drink. I put on quite a show at the party when I finally showed up... attempting to urinate on one of my fraternity brothers from a 2nd story window. That must have been hilarious (note heavy sarcasm).
 
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EpiPEN said:
yeah how silly of you for being fit
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Hahaha.

You could look at the two ironmans, the trip to national collegiate cycling championships, and the great waist/hip ratio and think that

Or you could consider the 4,500 hours of training, 1 traumatic brain injury, spondylolisthesis, 3 separated shoulders, 1 broken humerus, chondromalacia in the left knee, 2 cases of ITB syndrome, plantar fasciitis, tendinitis everywhere, 15+ nasty scars...

Oh... and barely getting into medical school.
 
tequila. and i know i can't be alone on that one.
 
dating a girl
 
TehDoc said:
dating a girl
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:laugh: well played.

this story isn't mine, but my father stole a fetal pig from his bio lab as an undergrad at case, put firecrackers in it, and exploded it over the quad of his dorm w/ his frat brothers. true story.
 
Freshman year, I took adderall to focus on studying, couldn't sleep, and fell asleep during my genetics final. never again >.<
 
Got arrested... at least it was after being accepted to Medical School 🙂
 
And also even though I hate the Greek system, if I could go back I think I would have joined a frat to gain easy access to sorostitutes 😛
 
premedrose said:
Went to lecture in Physics. Learned NOTHING in class. The teacher was at least 90 years old and was incomprehensible. The test had NOTHING (not kidding a bit) to do with the lecture.
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Wow, sounds like my physics class...why did I go to lecture?? We had a foreign lady who definitely has not yet mastered the english language and really never helped anyone with the problems we did, and seh never realized when her microphone batteries died and would just keep talking. No one could hear her. And the exams had very little to do with lecture. And she made us create our own lab exercise in lab and NEVER COLLECTED IT.😡
 
LikeClockWork said:
Signed up for a summer class that I was SURE started on July 1st. Around mid-June I decided to check to see what I owed for the class so I could pay it. Turns out the class started June 1st and I had missed the first 3 weeks of class. Had to withdraw, but because I was already past the add/drop period, I had to pay 50% of the cost (tuition on a pay-per-hour basis).

So basically I said "Here college. Have $600. I don't mind."

Arg. 😡
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Ahhh sounds like the winner to me.....
 
I went on a party bus and nearly urinated on my girlfriend... she was displeased. Oh yeah.. I got arrested too...
 
I took two grade deflated upper level classes for my first semester with my HS studying habits.
 
Stayed up every night of the week till 4 in the morning mastering halo with my roommates who were art majors and did their best abstract drawings at that time of night and didnt have class until 3 in the afternoon....missed a lot of class, got a lot of bad grades...silly, silly me

a must add, though, I do have some crazy master chief skills and those covenant dont stand a chance against me!!!!! too bad that wasnt a class
 
deciding to go to medical school is by far the worst decision i have ever made.
 
Freshman year. Drank an entire 750ml bottle of smirnoff vodka in roughly two hours. Felt slightly drunk but overall pretty good. Got tired and went to sleep.



Woke up naked, covered in vomit, vomit all over my bed, vomit all over the floor, vomit all over my roommate's bed.


Good thing I threw up in the garbage pail though.



Oh yeah, it was a metal mesh garbage pail so it doesn't retain (chunky) liquid very well.
 
Took both semesters of organic chemistry + lab over the summer.
 
engineeredout said:
Freshman year. Drank an entire 750ml bottle of smirnoff vodka in roughly two hours. Felt slightly drunk but overall pretty good. Got tired and went to sleep.



Woke up naked, covered in vomit, vomit all over my bed, vomit all over the floor, vomit all over my roommate's bed.


Good thing I threw up in the garbage pail though.



Oh yeah, it was a metal mesh garbage pail so it doesn't retain (chunky) liquid very well.
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:barf:I'm hoping your roommate wasnt asleep/passed out in his bed. So, what was his reaction to that??
 
Amazing how in retrospect people still comment on academic related things :\
 
engineeredout said:
Freshman year. Drank an entire 750ml bottle of smirnoff vodka in roughly two hours. Felt slightly drunk but overall pretty good. Got tired and went to sleep.



Woke up naked, covered in vomit, vomit all over my bed, vomit all over the floor, vomit all over my roommate's bed.


Good thing I threw up in the garbage pail though.



Oh yeah, it was a metal mesh garbage pail so it doesn't retain (chunky) liquid very well.
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lightweight.
 
cuadrado said:
Stayed up every night of the week till 4 in the morning mastering halo with my roommates who were art majors and did their best abstract drawings at that time of night and didnt have class until 3 in the afternoon....missed a lot of class, got a lot of bad grades...silly, silly me

a must add, though, I do have some crazy master chief skills and those covenant dont stand a chance against me!!!!! too bad that wasnt a class
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lol, I did the same thing! But I've been doing it with friends who already got accepted to med school so they didnt really care about their grades.
 
🙂
 
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Assuming my long term relationship goals would work out.
 
Why do so many people's dumbest moments involve classes? We are talking about college, right? The definition of "undergrad" didn't suddenly change on me, did it?

Anyway, my freshman year I lived on the top floor of one of our dorms. Almost instantly, my mission became to see how much **** I could toss off the balcony during the course of the year. Fruit, appliances, road signs and cones, about every bodily fluid you can imagine (think about it), books, furniture, explosives, and all sorts of detritus got flung over that railing. Ah, memories. :meanie:
 
Alright, so this deserves a new user name 😀

My worst, and by far wost moment in college was ... so I go this camping trip with people from this club I joined in college. Since this club was a ethnicity club, I had always my space and reservations between the members. You kindda have to because of your reputation. So this camping trip was actually in a cabin, and they had like 5 cabins rented. Everynight, there was a party at one cabin. The one night that the party was at my cabin, I got really really really really really drunk. So a bunch of girl walk in, and I hadn't met them before. I tell them that the rules of our cabin is that you have to get drunk. One of the girls was paying extra attention to me, and introduces herself. I asked her if she wants a drink, she says yes, we go to the alcohol and there were only shots. I tell he if she wants a shot and she says no, and the next thing I know we are making out (The most I talked to her was 3 sentences !!!) The couch happened to be conveniently located right there. We sit down make out and she comes on top of me. And after a while I start, well, ehem ... sucking on her tits ... in front of EVERYONE !!! All my friends come and start high fiving me, while I'm doing that. And apparently I also had my hand in her pants pleasuring her ... in front of 30 people !!!!!

SOOOO F---ING EMBARRASSING !!


I never hung out with those people again, didn't had the face
 
DrAnonymous2050 said:
Alright, so this deserves a new user name 😀

My worst, and by far wost moment in college was ... so I go this camping trip with people from this club I joined in college. Since this club was a ethnicity club, I had always my space and reservations between the members. You kindda have to because of your reputation. So this camping trip was actually in a cabin, and they had like 5 cabins rented. Everynight, there was a party at one cabin. The one night that the party was at my cabin, I got really really really really really drunk. So a bunch of girl walk in, and I hadn't met them before. I tell them that the rules of our cabin is that you have to get drunk. One of the girls was paying extra attention to me, and introduces herself. I asked her if she wants a drink, she says yes, we go to the alcohol and there were only shots. I tell he if she wants a shot and she says no, and the next thing I know we are making out (The most I talked to her was 3 sentences !!!) The couch happened to be conveniently located right there. We sit down make out and she comes on top of me. And after a while I start, well, ehem ... sucking on her tits ... in front of EVERYONE !!! All my friends come and start high fiving me, while I'm doing that. And apparently I also had my hand in her pants pleasuring her ... in front of 30 people !!!!!

SOOOO F---ING EMBARRASSING !!


I never hung out with those people again, didn't had the face
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WOW. Was she cute?

If she was beer-goggles cute, it's still alright.

😆 👍 :clap:
 
That sounds like a awesome slut.
 
dienekes88 said:
WOW. Was she cute?

If she was beer-goggles cute, it's still alright.

😆 👍 :clap:
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Yeah she was cute ... btw, I was drunk and she wasn't !!! It was wost for her cause she was a girl, specially since she was a freshman, and I was graduating 😀

I feel bad for her though, a stunt like that as a freshman can haunt you for the rest of your college career.
 
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