<p>-KNOW your typing speed. KNOW how quickly you can BS something up.</p>
<p>If you need to write a 1,000 page paper, realize that if you’re typing at an average of 60 WPM, you need 16 2/3 minutes to type that all up (it is realistic, given the breaks that people need when they write something insightful).</p>
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<li><p>KNOW the teacher’s predisposition to taking in people’s excuses late</p></li>
<li><p>KNOW how long “staying in the bathroom for a bit too long” means. Arriving in class 5 minutes late can mean the difference between life and death. </p></li>
<li><p>KNOW how lenient some substitute teachers are. I once got an essay grade of 97% in english even though i didn’t start on it until the MORNING it was due - and my class is like at 7:55 AM. Okay, so what i did was this. I turned in the assignment with everyone else, then I told the substitute teacher that I forgot to print one of my pages out (the memory isn’t that reliable - it might have been "I need to staple my pages quickly) and quickly need to go back to the printer, so I did that, and I took like 5-10 minutes to go through the entire process. in reality i typed up the parts of the essay I didn’t complete and then ran back to the english room and turned it in. luckily it WAS a substitute - I knew which substitute teachers tend not to notice.</p></li>
<li><p>KNOW the likelihood of a teacher not noticing something</p></li>
<li><p>KNOW when the consequences of your action will only likely result in being reprimanded</p></li>
<li><p>pretend to be forgetful from time to time in class, so that some of your mistakes will be attributable to your natural tendency to forget things. but don’t be too irresponsible. this also depends on the teacher</p></li>
<li><p>don’t get addicted to caffeine. Try to space out the periods you ingest caffeine so that there will be periodic days when your bloodstream will have no caffeine. This will prevent tolerance. Right now I’m pulling an all-nighter every two days, which is very possible because I always try to ensure that I have a caffeine free day in between so that the caffeine really works better when i actually am pulling an all-nighter.</p></li>
<li><p>if you’re used to sleeping on beds, put all sorts of books on top of the bed and deny access to pillows and blankets while you’re typing up your essays. i once started on a final project the day before it was due (IB dossier!) and i put so many of my books on the couch next to the room. I slept on the floor for like an hour (it’s easy to wake up earlier when you sleep on the floor). this doesn’t work as well if you have a clean floor though. I’m used to sleeping on the floor nowadays, so it doesn’t work as well as it used to.</p></li>
<li><p>make “accidents”. “stay too long in the bathroom”. remember that the bathroom is an excellent excuse for so many things. as is forgetfulness. people tend to forgive people for “incidents of staying in the bathroom for too long” - because the same thing could easily happen to them.</p></li>
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<p>-if your school computers suck and take some time to load up microsoft word from e-mail or whatever, there is a better choice than e-mail. it’s called wikipedia for transmitting notes and assignments - just create and edit your wiki userpage. when gmail takes a minute to load on some computers, that difference can be very critical
- if there are time lags in assignment turn-in and assignment collection, you could sneak out of the room and back (especially if it’s homeroom) to print out the edited paper and then to suddenly sneak your paper out again. ugh i forgot the exact process.</p>
<p>finally, a very excellent quote from t3h golub:
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