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xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements
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I'm trying to share my footage of the full run to prove it's not tool-assisted, but the uploader has problems with video lengths of more than a decade.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3148/
Bro did not get a degree, he got a whole rotation.
A 360° rotation
How do you choose when every major’s terrible? That’s the thing — you don’t. Gotta catch them all, amarite?
This makes me curious on how an any% run of university would look like. Which glitches to use in particular
Paul Erdős found an exploit in the end game. All you have to do is collaborate with everyone you come across. It doesn't even matter how small your role is in each paper as long as your name appears somewhere in it.
Another exploit is to start your own journal and "publish" shit-tons of your own papers. When I was in grad school I was involved in evaluating potential new professor hires. One guy's entire CV (which was massive) consisted of papers published in journals that he was editor and founder of. He probably would have gotten away with it except that he also listed his editorship of these journals in his CV -- like, we didn't even have to do any research to expose it.
Amazingly enough his application was not immediately tossed out, and he was even flown in for an interview. That is modern Anthropology for you.
Here's another exploit. You and your academic buddies could each have their own Journal and use them for publishing without any suspicious traces leading back to you. Let's say Sally starts SPLAT, the Studies in Pointless but Laughable Academic Topics. Nelly starts NOPE, the Journal of Nonsensical Observations an Preposterous Experiments. Meanwhile Pete starts POOP, the Proceedings of Outlandish and Outrageous Postulations.
Nelly can be an editor of SPLAT, while Pete can publish all his papers there. Likewise, Pete would be an editor of NOPE and Sally can publish her papers there. Finally, Sally would be an editor of POOP and Nelly would publish her papers that way. It's a happy love triangle where everyone wins.
I think that's what most people do, they get their piece of paper.
A 4.0 GPA is nice, but a bachelor's is a bachelor's.
Glitches as glitches, if you can cheat well, just take skill confirmation tests on every single subject and you can skip whole years
Okay this is literally my dream if I magically had the health and money to afford this.
I had a friend who worked at a call center to harass people about student loans. They said that one the job was great because one they learned about loop holes to defer loans for as long as possible, and two they had found out about professional students that just kept going to school and didnt have to pay their loans because they would just stay another semester and live off the college loans. If you are in the US, a single person, and were never going to save for retirement anyways... it was doable 15 years ago.
But wouldn't that mean you end up with as much debt as a small country?
Minimum payment is dependent on your salary and you can die with debt.
Making education free would have been way better that making college expensive and then providing loans.
Can confirm. For example, Egypt made university education free (or very cheap) for all Egyptians. Nowadays, they are pumping out countless medical doctors who get employed all across the Middle East. Probably not the highest quality medical care, but it's still better than nothing.
Now that I think of it, many countries offer free or very affordable university education for their citizens. What's wrong with America? Even poor African countries make education accessible.
War against education
you can die with debt.
and don't forget, without cosigners the debt dies with you
There was no exit plan, the individuals just kept racking up college debt. Debt collectors cannot come to collect the debt if you are still in college, and the college doesn't care they are still getting the loan money. They were professional students and they "beat" the system.
That's how you play the game!
Do ChatGPT Essays count as a tool assisted speedrun?
That's like using a mining bot in Minecraft. You just go AFK, and when you come back you have a stack of diamonds.
Shut up Leonard, I heard about your crooked wang!
SiFI book Doorways in the sand by Roger Zelazny. Dude has a generous inheritance as long he is a full time student working toward a degree.
As an undergrad, I did all the coursework and thesis writing required for a BS in Physics and a BA in Anthropology, but my college had a policy of not granting dual degrees. For no reason I can remember, I chose the BA in Anthropology. Since I ended up as a programmer, this decision was almost meaningless, except for one job where our billable rate was dependent on our degree and there was a $15 an hour difference between a BA and a BS. This difference translated into how much I was paid, although after stewing over this for a month I threatened to quit and they upped my salary. The joke was on them anyway: it was College Physics and not University Physics!
There is no university in existence that would stop taking your money.
All sode mino quests and some of them are repetitive.
Statistics for business and statistics with actual math. Those remedial classes, like math that starts with basic arithmetics.
What a trooper to slog though all.
I would be more impress if he'd played it in god mode. Must get all As and it requires being elected president of each student organization at least once.