University is meant to be a time for learning new things and broadening horizons. But let's be honest, most of us just used it as an excuse to drink lots whilst doing just enough to pass our course.
Unlike school, university gives you the freedom to work at your own pace, which means you can leave everything until the last second if you like.
For those doing the bare minimum, you probably didn't read the course syllabus - or if you did, it was only a week before the final exam.
But the people running your course aren't fools and sometimes they can play their own tricks on their students, like this professor at Columbia University who used the syllabus to ask his students to send him a picture of 80s sitcom star Alf...
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In case you were wondering about what was in the controversial sandwich...
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