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May 17, 2024 | Latest Issue
The Dartmouth

How to FAIL an Exam

It's 5:00 a.m. and you've got a final in three hours. Instead of sleeping, you're sitting on FFB aggressively clicking through your roommate's ex-boyfriend's sister's junior prom Facebook album with empty Redbulls and Rockstars littered around you.

You know that you're going to fail your exam anyway, so here are a few tips to bomb it in style:

Instead of doodling on your exam (e.g. circling "x" on a math exam when asked to find it), just start tweeting your responses: Hamlet obviously had lots of #daddyissues and needed some serious #familytherapy.

Russian13wasfull #thisismythirdclass #sorryforpartying

Besides making you a much more concise writer, this might just make your prof raise your grade from an F to an #E+ #winning.

If you're in a Greek house, order the pledges on a mission to interrupt the exam period. Having pledges sing Justin Bieber and play ultimate frisbee in princess costumes will undoubtedly detract attention from your blatant unpreparedness. Some '14s will gladly go the extra mile and maybe even assault the prof if they really want to be summer president.

Start playing flip cup by yourself on the edge of your desk. Don't worry about making a mess your exam is worthless at this point anyway. Extra points for turning it into a solo game of pong against the wall and booting everywhere. Warning: This tip definitely has the biggest repercussions, i.e. getting Good Sammed before 11 a.m., #Diversions and possibly even #involuntarymedicalleave. At least it's Twitter-friendly?

Or you could just take orgo there's a pretty good chance you'll fail anyway.