Ancient Japan developed the abura-dashi method in essaying invisible writings whose raw material shall be the soybean. This kind of ink would become invisible during the time of writing and would appear with just a little heating of the paper carefully to show the hidden writing. It was traditionally used by ninjas to send secretive messages; hence, the student's clever use of this historical skill tugged them to the top!
She was able to have ass the essay with a single creative idea and I'd rather figure out how to do invisible ink than have to write an entire quality essay
Reminds me of the story of a philosophy professor who made a test which had the prompt: “prove that this chair doesn’t exist.” Most people wrote a very long thesis but one student was done in under 30 seconds, turned in their essay and walked out. They got the highest grade in the class. The essay read as follows: What Chair?
I always liked that test, cause you can tell when someone understands the assignment and when they're just "trying to prove something" by asking them simple questions and seeing if they have enough experience to know it's not about the answer, but how you answer it. Many of my job interviews started off that way where I could tell I was over explaining and really showed I had no experience, but now after 10 years, they don't even ask technical questions anymore cause I'm kind of expected to know it already, rather they just kind of ask "SO what do you do for fun?" and I tell them "I build software" and boom, I'm hired.
Over here in the UK my law teacher told me about how there was once a question in a philosophy exam which was "What is bravery?". One student had a one word answer: "This." and that response got them full marks.
Wow, I was just about to comment that a long time ago, a friend of mind told me he did exactly this. Now I'm wondering if he lied, or if this story is actually about him lol.
Living in America leads to the cold realization that you don't feel connected to anything, because all the historical buildings are torn down to build a Walmart.
@@Not_interestEd-what historical buildings? The best we had were the grand art deco and stucco skyscrapers that were torn down in favor of overly simplistic modern trends of glass and steel
America is build on migrants, and as such it could have at most 300 years of history that the modern American could feel related to. I don’t think Americans are much related to Indian history. But what should I know, I’m just European. And yes, majoring on Japanese studies (or however it’s called in English lmao), may have a subject about ninjas, apart from Japanese, ancient Japanese, history, and whatever. Pretty cool. Sometimes I wish classes where recorded and study materials made public because reading those would be super interesting.
There are exceptions; the rules do not specify the type of paper or ink used to print essay papers. So she only needs soybean-colored paper and homemade soybean-invisible ink made in the traditional Shinobi (Ninja) style, which she can then insert into an ink cartridge. Finally, type the essay on your computer and print it on soybean-colored paper with a sticky note in the upper right corner. She submitted a blank paper to the Shinobi professor, who passed her with high marks because She emerged in the history of traditional Shinobi (Ninja) style.
This reminds me of a time when I learned a new technique and showed it to my professor. It was 10 years ago, during my second year of architecture school. I'm an architect now, but back then, I had managed to create a 3D building model in Revit, exported it as an IFC file, and demonstrated it to my professor using an iPad and a mixed-reality setup. I had spent a month learning how to do this, but when I showed it to him, he didn’t seem impressed and simply asked, "What am I supposed to do with this?" Today, this methodology-known as BIM (Building Information Modeling)-is the standard for government and large-scale projects in Brazil, even backed by legislation. By the way, I didn’t get a good grade for it...
Did you get the patent???? Were you the first to invent it ? Are you recognized? Or are you one of the many people ,like me ,that has a great invention but keeps it to yourself and some time later someone else is making big bucks and recognization from it?????? You should be proud of yourself. If could I would go back to that professor and tell him he's an idiot for not realizing your genius yrs ago!!!
For what its worth, the company Fedex was created by a college student when his class was told to create a business model and explain how it would work. His teacher failed him saying it was impossible and would never work. He made it his lifes mission to prove that teacher wrong.
or they are the best because people were so scared of them, like japanese castles have lots of design choices JUST to counter ninjas ( gravel, and intentionally creaky walls and more)
I wrote a 5 page philosophy paper, for the assignment, "On Proof of Existence" it was a cover page and five blank pages. At the next class he held up my paper and said, "Misti V., please remain after I dismiss the class." He walked over to me and said, "What the heck is this?" I told him, "I wrote the essay. You came to me to talk about my essay. That means that 100% of the people that matter in this situation, believe that I exist... and I just didn't see the point of doing all that typing, if I didn't exist." I got an A.
@@Boohurghhoo I used the standard cover page I had set up for the class, filled in the title line "Existence?" and date, and changed the name line. That was all, but you must also remember that the cover page isn't part of the essay and never counts toward your page count.
agree, Professor would even pass her even if there wasn't sticky note. The students understand the assignment and notice a soybean-colored paper that it gives away, which is different from the other students essay paper. but a clue is necessary
Yes good professors can recognize when a student is genuinely interested in the material and trying to show thier mastery of it. What she did was that proof. that she went out of her way to do the research and apply it. If the professor failed her or scolded her, it would be a failure on HIS part.... just like American universities that rely on "Turn it in . com" and keep calling out students for turning in AI generated papers..... Ask the student to give a presentation on the paper without holding it, and grade them on that.... Don't rely on the very same tool you chastise your students for using. In fact, when I was doing a masters in Robotics, the professors all graded purely on our assignments and our conversations in slack. about 70% of the grade was participation and the other 30% was the actual work. The reason was clear by the end of the cirriculum where for a final dissertation, we had to essentially build a robot from scratch and show a video of it working, either physically or virtually. and that alone determined if we got our degree or wasted our money and time.
I love how she pulled this off! Really takes creativity to the next level, and it’s awesome that the teacher appreciated it and gave her the credit she earned.
Obviously. But for his audience it’s understood as either the second highest or highest grade, even if that’s not actual the grading terminology used originally. Not even all US schools use letter grades but it’s still how people would describe the grade to others so they’re understood clearly.
I love the idea of creative exams! Actually having to put thought into it instead of just doing the same boring stuff over and over again sounds awesome. Also, that truly was a genius move by her. She really did understand that assignment.
The use of invisible ink has a great history from ancient times when people used this method of writing for secret communications. Some of the common ways included lemon juice or vinegar, which disappeared when dry and reappeared after heating the paper. Thus, spies or secret agents were able to send messages without getting detected, just like how a ninja operates. The use of invisible ink brings into view topics of secrecy and ingenuity, making it a fascinating subject for both historical and literary contexts.
This is what education should be really be about. It's not just about putting the answers on the paper. It's understanding the answers and learning how best to use the knowledge you attain.
Actually, there is another story like this, A boy in college was told to write an esaay on courage, but throughout the given time to write the essay, he slept. At the last 5 minutes, he woke up and wrote on his paper, '' This is courage'' and submitted it. He passed the examination
Love this! I wrote an essay for my WWII summer course while traveling Northern France, Aras, Verdun, etc and took the approach of using a southern drawl to write my essay as a solder writing back home during wartime. Definitely Nostalgic listening to this story. That’s awesome.
Same story I remembered. A class was tasked to write an essay about courage. One of the students submitted a blank paper with just his name written on it. When asked by the professor in an angry demeanor, the student then said, you asked us to write an essay about courage - thus he submitted an empty paper. That’s courage. He was given A+ by the professor after that.
mordekai and rigby would end up doing this instead of doing the job normally and end up summoning ninjas to attack the park and unseal whatever demons they were guarding
I always loved the philosophy student who was asked to write an exam essay on "what is a question?" after simply writing "is this an answer?" he walked out after 5mins of the exam time and got an A!
Great story! I always found that college professors really enjoyed being surprised and entertaining by creativity. When I was in journalism school many years ago, I earned a scholarship by writing a press release announcing that I had won it-complete with fake quotes from real professors talking about my achievements. Not as cool as in invisible ninja ink, but it worked! 😊
My history teacher once had a friend who was a philosophy major, and for their final exam they were given three hours to answer a single question: “Why?” The top-rated student at the time wrote a twelve-page essay on the topic and got a B. The friend simply wrote, “Why not?” And got an A.
