Don't really recall any of my school projects,
don't think they were that interesting.
But in uni, my final project was a doozey. There were lots of things to chose from, from complicated LED clocks to other complicated software which did clever, complicated things.

I chose to do a website.

It was supposed to be a complicated clever website, but I had no idea how to do that. So I knocked up the most basic, not to mention astoundingly ugly, website I'd ever made. It was supposed to be an interactive walkthrough of the department. And it was, sort of. It had pictures and when you clicked on the picture to take you to... another picture.
One of the lecturers who helped mark the project pointed out to me that I could do this with my eyes closed before I even started uni. And I passed! OK, it was a scrape, but scraping through anything academic had been a speciality of mine for years. Yes, I passed by handing in a project which reflected nothing I had learnt in the previous three years of uni.

Oh one thing in school, whilst not a project but the only thing I was proud of in that hateful place was one lesson right near the end of year in maths. The teacher didn't have anything planned and so set a devilish question which he was sure would tax the kids for the whole 50 mins so he could sit on his arse and do nothing.

How many squares on a chessboard?

Not 64, as everyone immediatly shouted out, but including the squares of 2x2 and 3x3, etc. Anyway, I produced the answer after about 5 minutes which made him a little surprised.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 13:57, 5 replies)

Do I know you
Sounds exactly like my students...if only they were that talented
(bluehamster, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 14:36, closed)

How many are there?

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 14:39, closed)

204 or 205
I forget which.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 14:53, closed)

Five minutes?
1x1: 8 x 8 = 64
2x2: 7 x 7 = 49
3x3: 6 x 6 = 36
4x4: 5 x 5 = 25
5x5: 4 x 4 = 16
6x6: 3 x 3 = 9
7x7: 2 x 2 = 4
8x8: 1 x 1 = 1

Total: 204
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 16:16, closed)

Yeah, that.
I did that before everyone else in the class. This is not actually much of a boast, having seen the quality of pupil at our school.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Wed 19 Aug 2009, 8:57, closed)