Does uni count as school?
If so then the worst thing I ever did (and this remains one of the few things in my life that I'm truly ashamed of) was in my third year. I've never told anyone about it, not even my closest mates so I suppose this is as good a place as any to confess that I once used someone's death to get a week's extension on some coursework.

Put simply, by my third year of uni I had lost any remaining interest in my course (should have switched after year 1 in all honesty) and was struggling to stay awake - let alone focussed - in lectures and tutorials. By the time we came back after Christmas break I was already starting to fall behind and was in very real danger of losing the plot.

One particularly tough piece of work which I should have made some headway on long before was due in at the end of the coming week and I hadn't even started the thing. So when I got word that a lad I barely knew - but had been in my year at high school - had been killed in a car crash I saw a golden opportunity.

The next day I put on my best shell-shocked face and went to see my tutor, to explain how devastated I was that one of my closest friends from home had been killed. I spoke about how I'd spent time with him over Christmas, how I'd just spoken to him a few nights before and how we were going to meet up for the weekend at the end of the month. I hardly knew him at all, if anything I'd always thought he was an annoying twat but by the end of that meeting you would have thought we were blood brothers.

And my tutor bought it. As a result I was excused all classes for the next week (compassionate leave, if you will) and given extensions on all outstanding coursework. So I went home, locked myself in the flat for a week and worked like an absolute bastard. Scored quite highly on the piece, too.

Sorry about that, Brian.
(DazMack1979, Tue 13 Sep 2011, 21:50, 5 replies)

You utter, utter, bastard...
(Who is this Brian character?)
(McChinaman banned, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 1:09, closed)

I don't think your degree is going to help you in Hell
Which is where you're going
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 3:53, closed)

Have you posted this before,
or is it the plot from a film? It's awfully familiar.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 13:45, closed)

Entirely genuine, I'm afraid.

(DazMack1979, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 16:11, closed)

Fair play.
Must be deja vu.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 14 Sep 2011, 18:35, closed)