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To The Professor Assigning 150 Minutes Of Movie-Watching Homework, Can We Put That On Pause?

What makes you think I can dedicate 2.5 hours to watching an educational movie for class?

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To The Professor Assigning 150 Minutes Of Movie-Watching Homework, Can We Put That On Pause?

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We are college students. Taking 12 credit hours or more. Involved with extracurriculars. Working jobs. Studying and doing homework for other classes. What makes you think I can dedicate 2.5 hours to watching an educational movie for class?

Here are 10 things I would much rather do.

1. Write an essay

Yep, give me a prompt and I'll write an essay because it would take me less time to do that than watch a movie.

2. Watch a specific scene from the movie

Odds are that the point of the two-hour movie can be wrapped up in one scene, so just show us that scene in class and say why it is important

3. Read a summary

Most likely, I will be on Wikipedia reading the plot summary anyway.

4. Watch the trailer

Or I will watch the trailer on YouTube to get the jest of the movie.

5. Text my classmates

See if they have watched it and can give me the rundown.

6. Watch the movie in class

Seems like an obvious choice if you're going to have us watch a movie.

7. Study

Yup, would rather take those two hours and dedicate it to studying for something worth many more points and worth the time.

8. Nothing

I would rather do nothing and not even have an assignment :)

9. Not even watch it

If it comes to it, I won't even watch it.

10. Drop the class

If that movie is worth a large amount of our grade, I just might have to drop the class because ain't nobody got time for that.

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