how lovely a find

apparently youre supposed to perform. they love it when you perform. but it has to be authentic. they hate it when it's not authentic. but you have to perform.

I met a girl who did a very good half of exam but didn't actually know the answer, so she wrote a full page (two sides), left half a sentence at the end of the page and wrote "Page 1 of 2" and submitted that. Because the teacher assumed it was her fault and that she had lost half of the exam, she gave her a passing grade hoping she wouldn't complain. And she didn't, of course.

In college, I forgot I had a paper (that I hadn't written a word of) due, until the teacher asked us to pass them forward at the start of the class... I had my computer though, and so I said I had forgotten the printed copy at home, could I please run to the computer lab after class and print it and bring it right over? He said sure, he could wait a few minutes since it was just downstairs. I don't have to look at my hands to type, so I wrote it in class while staring at the board like I was taking notes, and printed it off after. Got a B on it.

#bullshitting takes many forms#and should be a skill kids are allowed to hone

I learnt how to corrupt a file so that I could submit a pdf by the due time then go into school where they'd be like "it doesn't open can you send it again" and I'd be all !!! Oh no! But by then I'd had all night to write it up so I could just pull my laptop out in front of them and submit the file whatever way they wanted. And I know everyone did the ol' "forgot to attach the document" trick for presentations once or twice

i crave connection but also silence and zero human interaction