What should be a simple assignment...

[kaririloto]

...has not resulted so simply.

[[ Please pardon my actions;; I'm relatively new and I don't know what I can and can't post, exactly. >_< ]]

All right. In my [dull.prejudiced.boring.white.corn-based.] school, we have an amazing teacher, an INTP in its finest stages. He has given us a lot of slack and understanding, yet a lot of people put forth maximum effort into his class.

Anyway, we were assigned a new project, which is...well....ANYTHING.

I mean, ANYTHING.

I could do SADISM if I wanted to.

As long as we pick a topic or topics, we can present them in ANY MANNER.

This means near-limitless possibilities!

I've been thinking constantly, trying to come up with the most absurd, amazing, intriguing project as I can, but I haven't been able to settle on one.

Any suggestions?

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

This kind of assignment would have driven me crazy. Something so broad and open-ended as "ANYTHING" would have left my mind going off in a thousand different directions and not once settling on a single idea. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool assignment but it would have left me lost and perhaps paralyzed to the point I end up with nothing.

Maybe you could do NOTHING!

But since I doubt that would fly with your teacher, why don't you tell us what direction your ideas are taking?

 

[NoID10ts]

I would do a report on why a project like this is a bad idea.

I once wrote an essay on a final exam for a philosophy class where I explained to the professor that he was wrong on a point we discussed earlier in the week. There was no way he could say I was wrong, because he painted himself into a corner by his own philosophy on that particular point. He gave me an A in the class!

 

[Artifice Orisit]

Oh no, no no no no nooo,
That was my train of thought exactly,
IB's in my head...

You could do nothing and when the teacher refutes it you can use your back-up assignment about hypocrisy and the importance of not listening to the teacher, but understanding their thoughts. Using his refute as evidence and possibly including a call-to-action for student rebellion.
This is why the kicked me out of Sunday school, that and satanic rituals. My defence: If you believe in god you believe in the devil. (Okay the satanic ritual thing is B.S., but I was kicked out for inciting rebellion)

...Is that the "Shroud of shadows" from "Elder Scrolls V: Oblivion" on your avatar?

 

[FusionKnight]

I had a class in high school called "Theory of Knowledge" in which we spent a lot of time talking about and exploring absurdism and deconstructionism... both worthy topics, and both pretty close to "nothing".

 

[Aphasia]

Just pick something at random and pretend your teacher assigned it to you. Otherwise, you may not ever finish your project.

@Cog: When you said that, I just realized that it's a gray fox XD

 

[Decaf]

That sounds like a brilliant assignment. If I were a teacher I would do that every year. Why? Because half the project is to help people decide. Wow, a useful skill! My advice would be to pick a project from whatever is currently something you wish you knew more about. Since that advice is probably something you already knew, I suppose I'm not very helpful.

You could do it on the value or the future of open ended gaming maybe?

 

[Raison D'etre]

Perhaps you could pick a topic from this forum.

 

[EloquentBohemian]

Assignment Choice:

The quantum effects of left-spinning quarks on six day old Bavarian cheesecake topped with that-oh-so-yummy Amazon purple tree frog puree with sprinkles on the third Wednesday of August after the Rapture while standing on tip-toe dressed in the finest sequined coveralls formerly owned by the 'King of Rock-n-Roll himself' and singing 'God Save The Queen' while Oprah, Jesse Jackson and Richard Dawkins sing 'doo-wop' back-up on the front steps of the headquarters of the National Rifle Association during National 'Take Your Gun To Lunch' week.

Manner of Presentation:

Live Fox News helicopter camera feed via satellite with a play-by-play commentary by Geraldo Rivera dressed in Mini-Me's tuxedo using 27 8x10 color glossy photos with circles and arrows on the back.


Should get you an 'A'.


...or your own private comfy padded room (with toilet privleges) in the local Happy Hotel.


(...far far too much Python)

 

[Death]

I once have the almost same assignment as yours,but we are required to find a current issues /research etc,and they varies,from stem cell research to animal extinction.How do I find my topic? I googled it. :P

 

[Decaf]

How about the cost benefit ratio between taste and health of adding bacon to salads?

 

[Artifice Orisit]

A psychological analysis of your teacher.

A physiological analysis of your teacher.

A scientific report on the probability and the various hypothetical results of an alien invasion.

A scientific report on the probability and the various possible results of a zombie infestation.

 

[kaririloto]

I very much appreciate everyone's feedback.

I LOVE your ideas; they're so great! [Especially EloquentBohemian and Cognisant.]

I'd like to leave my [idiotic] class saying, " " because they'll be speechless.

I think I might do something like schizophrenics' artworks, psychoanalysis, "Do we live in a matrix?", "Why nothing can be proved or disproved", "An interpretation of <insert absurd text here>, etc.

There might be some other things else to think about.

[Again, I love the feedback! ^ ^]

 

[Waterstiller]

Honestly, if your teacher is INTP, I'd imagine he'd be amused by any of Cognisant's ideas.