The Most Incredible Ways People Outsmarted the System

The Most Incredible Ways People Outsmarted the System

HC Staff - April 18, 2023

The Most Incredible Ways People Outsmarted the System
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1. Full Credit

One semester when I was in college I had a major project that was due in the morning, and I knew I would have to stay up all night to finish it. I also had another assignment due for a different class, but there was no time to get it done too. The assignment was an essay that I was supposed to upload electronically to the professor before a certain deadline that evening.

Thinking fast, I grabbed some random system file off my computer and opened it as a text file producing a couple of pages of random garbage characters. I then saved the file giving it the title of my assignment and turned it in. After class that day the instructor pulled me aside to let me know she had encountered a problem opening my file, and asked me if I would mind re-uploading it. I told her that I didn’t have it with me, but that I would send it again as soon as I got home. Finished the assignment on a break after class and turned it in a day late for full credit. One of my proudest college achievements.

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