School Days, School Daze

[Deviate]

ah, spring always reminds me of finals...

i remember one year for my History of Costume final i was to compile a book of examples of costuming in art over the last, um, two milenia, and i had what i thought was a pretty complete project.

except:

the night before it was due i reread the criteria on which it would be graded. i learned i was supposed to include a reference to the artist, the name of the painting, the subjects involved, and the year it was created. i was supposed to do this for all of my several hundred pictures.

i had done this on none of them.

so i went to the library that night and grabbed every single book i remember checking out over the semester and flew through the pages trying to find each copied picture's original in order to copy its information. the ones whose information i couldn't find i had to rip out of my book and find a picture that would serve the same purpose whose information i could find. i copied random pages like mad. i killed entire forests single-handedly in one night.

when the library closed i took a huge stack of photocopied pages home and sat on my bed with scissors and a glue stick trying to make a somewhat attractive reference book of all the costuming styles of the last 2000 years.

i slept for an hour before i had to leave for class. i was on my bed in boxers and tee shirt sleeping on severe mass of jagged paper which was all slathered in glue.

i awoke to find myself feathered in scraps which i had to painfully rip off of me before i jumped in my jeans and ran to school. i had more paper cuts than i could count. the copier toner had tattooed every inch of my skin.

i think i got a B on the book. and for some odd reason when i smell spring i miss finals...

anyone else got some good school stories?