Homework

n. A composition of tasks assigned by teachers to students to assess the general understanding and/or boiling point of the students. Provides a legitimate base of study for classes where academic methods need to be practiced (eg. math, foreign languages, etc.) yet can easily can be considered pointless or redundant when one has to define "metaphor" for the umpteenth time (source: Faina's Fantastic Dictionary, thank you very much). Typically completed in the class before the homework is due. If it is actually done at home, as the name suggests, it is normally done so with little consideration (ex. writing a blog for an AP English class while wondering why one's Pandora radio station is so terrible and praying to the ghost of Thanksgiving Past that one's computer does not decided to crash for the fifth time this week). On rare occassion, it is possible to find a student who genuinely cares about homework. Such students need to be handled with care: it is advised to give them a bottle of Advil and a pat on the back. Sometimes used as a behavioral consequence when only .15% of the class was actually doing something wrong.

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v.

To fall asleep on top of one's AP World History textbook or any other action of similar quality.