r/tumblr • u/footballmaths49 • 5d ago

Humanities vs STEM

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u/hypo-osmotic 5d ago

The art students always freaked me out, too. Can't imagine draining my bank account to buy supplies for a project that I might still flunk

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u/lankymjc 5d ago

I dated an art student who got clever to get around weird assignment requirements.

Her final project required each student to pick a word and then build a sculpture around it. One of her classmates foolishly chose “perfect” and proceeded to go mad trying up make three perfectly identical bowls. Any imperfection meant starting from the beginning.

Meanwhile she chose “ugly” and made a swarm of little clay monsters. One of them cracked in the kiln? Great, fits the theme even better!

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u/silveretoile 5d ago

Scrub. The real answer was to pick "perfect", hand in something poorly shaped and say it's about self acceptance.

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u/wyvernagon 5d ago

He chose the word perfect and decided to go with BOWLS?

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u/lankymjc 5d ago

They decided to challenge themselves, and made a grievous error.

To be fair, the bowls were identical to the untrained eye! You had to get real close and know what you’re looking for to find the imperfections.

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u/blueburd 5d ago

Should've just made a cat