Epic Win: Passing Notes In Class
Submitted by Chantal H
Everybody had their secrets and everybody loved to share. We all had techniques for passing notes, like the stash slot in the back of the calculator, paper footballs, inside the Bic pen, etc.
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people still do this
Yeah, isn’t this supposed to be pre-2000 stuff?
nah, nowadays people text in class rather pass notes.
I got really good at passing notes. I never tried the Bic pen trick though.
I was never a note passer. It seems like a thing girls tend to do more (correct me if I’m wrong) and I had all male friends.
Of course, the currently 27 people who said this wasn’t an epic win were probably teachers. If I was passing notes to the person behind me, and I was wearing a hoodie (which I always am) I would shove the notes in my hood.
I’d put mine in pencil sharpeners (the ones with the nifty shavings holder) or taped to an eraser.
And kids wonder why they fail class.
i had a calculator that had a lid that would go down, i would hide notes in it and pass it to my best friend, so if the teacher saw she would just think we were sharing the calculator
I pass notes. Everyone else I know texts each other during class but I have whole conversations with some of my mates just scribbled on scraps of paper. Most of the time we don’t even hide it we just pass them back and forth. Its a good thing our teachers don’t read notes out loud in class anymore otherwise I would have very few people who would look me in the eye.
I also have a graphics calculator that has an alphabet function so we write notes in that function and pretend to loan each other the calculator.
My high school tried to ban T-83 calculators for this and the fact we put games on them.
They bought a set we “borrowed” everyday from the teacher, then had one we were required to have at home for homework. It was stupid.
So we had to go buy an expensive ass calculator “for school” but we weren’t allowed to take it to school. -.-
I’m so glad I’m out and away from that school and it’s non sense.
That is just damn stupid right there.
Yeah tell me about it.
Our school was great for worrying about everything else except us actually learning.
they were banned not because of that but because the memory could be stored for a long time and you could store math test forumla answers in them
We totally did the exact same thing during science class in high school. =D
Us too. Although it got pretty obvious after awhile that you were passing notes.
That’s a good idea, but generally my friends and i just slip it across our laps. In one of my classes I have a friend who writes stuff on the table, then erases it. I am so surprised she hasn’t been caught yet, and I’m sure it’s in the forseeable future…
Alot of our classes are in the computer lab and our school provides a student e-mail facility, so when the internet is down (or if it’s a boring class) we use the e-mail to send ‘notes’.
Just adding, we don’t do it ALL the time, only when class is particulary boring. Most of us get straight A’s, the ones who don’t get B’s, so it ISN’T affecting our learning…XD
When the internet is down, you can still send each other e-mail?? Where can I get internet like that?
anyplace that has an intranet with an exchange or smtp server
Uh-huh. One of those teacher types who thinks this is a fail.
Love notes, though, are great; I read ‘em aloud and mortify everybody.
Like you never did it when you were still in school
We just had a notebook we passed around between about 10 friends. 5 girls, 5 boys. We never got caught. But then again, my high school wasn’t all that strict… about anything.
I slept most of my senior year and still ended up in the top 20 students of my class. Sad? Yes.
I only don’t like this idea because I never passed a note that small. Mine were always a couple of pages long, so this would never work for me.
Other than that, if you don’t get caught passing notes you’ll probably get in trouble for throwing things in class.
Then thats not called a note it’s called an essay.
Eh. We had a lot to say.
Even today me and my best friend still write multiple page letters and e-mails to each other.
Plus it’s a little less likely a teacher will think it’s a note when you are writing in paragraph style form.
A little less. Depends on how nosey the teacher is.
Totally. We’d write 2-5 pagers during classes, and then swap in the hallways in between class.
Everybody had their own methods in my class. I used spent .22 shells that I saved from summer camp. I spray painted them so they were grey and not shiny. I was pretty good at launching them, too. I think I still have one or two laying around.
Wow. Really?
That’s a good idea… but that’s gun paraphenilia (yeah that’s spelled wrong I know).
In my school you would get expelled no questions asked for that.
Same with lighters because they say they are used for “drugs and cigarettes” which is mostly true but they acted like you were going to bomb the school if you had a lighter.
The internet isn\’t \”Down\” as I said, but because everyone in the class is using, say, Google at the same time, the school server gets kinda stressed and decides to have a nap, if you know what I mean. But the portal and everything on it, including school e-mail facilities, stay up and running, so we can still use it
The best way to avoid having your notes read aloud is to write them in code, or in another language. We had a couple of Chinese kids in our class who would just say they were taking notes on the lecture and there was nothing anyone could do about that.
My friends and I learned Old Norse runes so no one outside our circle could read our communiques.
We invented codes, too. Binary – long columns of five-digit one/zero numbers, representing each letter – which we got pretty fast at writing, and sandwich – writing a ‘garbage’ letter between each real letter.
well nowadays, we “pass” IM’s. my rich school requires laptops. so in turn, we go on Gmail and use the IM feature. and its really easy to switch window to a “hardworking” window.
Me and my friends take a piece of paper, write “Cheap AIM” on the top, and write notes. We also used our screen names to identify who was talking.
This was my method of asking out every girl in 5th grade
my bf and I were sitting next to each other and passing notes by writing on the same paper in the middle of class presentations. We were sent to the principals office actually, which was a nerve wracking experience. Since note-passing is a pretty minor offense to be sentenced, the principal lady attempted to make more out of the situation.
She claimed he was in a gang because his handwriting looked like graffiti. She didn’t understand LOLspk, so she didn’t know what “rawr” meant. And when he wrote jokingly “meh hates jooz” she took it as anti-semitism writing.
She attempted to analyze my handwriting, and took me for some insecure little girl and I got off a bit easier.
It was probably the most trouble I’d been in in school, but now it’s a bit of a joke.
Yeaaah, I did a lot of that. I’d also write notes to friends that weren’t even in the same class so we could trade at lunch and read them while in the *next* class. XD School was epic boring.
hell, I’m a junior in HS, and I still pass notes. all these whipersnappers and their cellular telephones and their “texting”… they need the challenge of decoding other’s handwriting while practicing their own! XD
In 7th grade, a friend of mine and I created a simple code to write notes to each other with, so if we were caught, the teacher wouldn’t be able to read it. Genius! Before long, we could write in code at a usual speed. I still use it to this day, 14 years later.
okay, i need sum help. me and my frend got caught passing notes about ‘boys’ but i used initials only. in the note i put rlly embarassing stuff in it now my teach hates me and he barley tlks to me even when i try to be nice. this is middle school here, were tlking about unessicary drama. we werent rlly passing notes, we just go home write a note and give it to each other in the hallway, but i forgot so i walked up to her desk nxt to the recycle bin and slipped it on her desk and didn’t get caught. But ofcorse theirs always the nub of the class yell ‘teacher, their passing notes!’, thats how i got caught. it wasn’t even a real class just a study hall. god middle school sux
im totally teaching my self a code lol.
Why do you pass notes in class? Are the teachers boring?