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| Penn Badgley |
Ask around about the best way to get an A and most people
will tell you “Study hard”. Some people will tell you “Cheat.” With ideas of
writing the answers on your hands or copying off the brainiac that sits in
front of you or even stealing the answers ahead of time. But we all know that
cheating AND stealing is wrong. *scoffs.
Yeah right we’ve all stolen something and cheated... Right? Eh hem!
So we’ve all heard the rumors before you get an A through grief, but you may be wondering how exactly does that work. Well, pipe down and I’ll tell you… sorry I was channeling Tarantino al a Zoe Bell.
So it goes like this; a young, promising academia was having a hard time with his current semester in college, so much so that he was in danger of being placed on academic probation (basically if he fails 2 consecutive semesters without a feasible cause they can and would take away is financial aid awards & scholarships.) He is desperate for a solution, anything to keep him in school and ultimately make his family proud and provide a better life for himself.
He’d heard the stories before around the campus—if you roommate dies you get a free A for the entire semester. In his mind there are only 3 ways this is going to happen; murder, suicide, or natural causes. Figuring the latter was least likely he is left with either finding a sad depressed person who would kill himself with a bit of coaxing or muddying his hands and taking the life of another student. He frantically searched the campus for any student that showed the slightest sign of suicidal tendencies, with no luck.
With time quickly running out and the semester nearing its end he knew if he was going to pass it was time to take a risk.
He knew in order to get the A he couldn’t earn on his own he’d
have to take it into his own hands and kill his roommate. To make himself feel better
about the impending act he told himself “My roommate is getting what’s coming
to him” and “He isn’t a good guy.”
Many variations of this tale exist varying from campus to
campus and state to state so the ending depends on where you hear it. Some say
the roommate needs to have been murdered, accidentally killed, or be sickly and
dying which would earn the surviving roommate a 4.0. Other versions say to the
A you must experience the death of a parent, close relative or a significant other
(or lover).
In reality some school will consider you grief when it comes
to grading but there is no know college that will give you that coveted 4.0/A
for a semester for you loss of someone close to you, accidental or not.
See is in a movie—
Dead
Man on Campus - 1998- starring Tom Everett Scott, Mark-Paul Gosselarr, and Poppy Montgomery.And
Dead Man’s Curve -1998- starring Matthew Lillard and Keri Russell
So if this story were true could you and would you be so
desperate and callous that you could take the life of another human? Helpless
and innocent or downright wicked could you do it for a semester of A’s? I know
that’s not the type of people you are… Right?
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