A Modest Proposal - had to defend an impossible sollution to a chosen problem, like Swift's Modest Proposal (1st year, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

There is a certain type of a situation, a deeply disturbing and a tormenting situation, which many students often find themselves in. It can occur at any given time during the school year: a teacher gives them a written assignment that must be handed in before the deadline; otherwise the student is bound to fail the course. Of course, the teacher also gives too little time to do it. I am not talking only of …

…you or in any other way find out who did it - do not brag about it afterwards. There are virtually no negative aspects of this approach. You would not get in trouble, you could hand in the finished paper, the teacher would recover (with some help from medical doctors and perhaps a psychiatrist or two), people would eventually forget about it and life would get back to normal. - written by Manca Berkopec; tel.: +386 31 754 724