Question for folks who either went to college or currently attend college

[pinboy3niner]

22. I arrived late to class in JC once, and the prof interrupted everything to grill me

He actually paused in mid-sentence in his lecture when I came in to demand that I tell him why I was late.

Put me in a pickle, he did.

I'd had half my jaw and teeth blown away in VN, and in the hall on the way to class somebody bumped me and knocked my caps off. I went into the restroom to try to fix them, and the only thing that worked was stuffing a little TP into them to make them stay on. But of course, I couldn't bring myself to tell him that.

When the prof confronted me, I just said, "I forgot the time." And was ridiculed by him for five minutes in the middle of his lecture.

They say, "Don't get back--get even." My way of getting even was studying like hell for the midterm we had coming up. I worked my ass off, even showing up at school at 5am on the morning of the exam to study my notes.

A week after the exam we got our grades. The elderly prof introduced it by saying that in all his years of teaching, he'd never had anyone ace his exam--until now. And he walked down the aisle and handed my perfect-score exam to me, in front of the whole class.

That was good enough for me.