Student gets perfect grade after handing in 19-word Fight Club essay
Topics: Education, Film and TV
Joe Yates
Featured Image Credit: 20th Century Studios/Twitter/@allisonbdelk
Topics: Education, Film and TV
Whether you're still in school, finished education, or have a full-time job... one thing almost everyone has in common is a hate of essays.
You get the odd person who seems to enjoy them, but we don't talk about them here.
I'm a journalist and I spend seven-and-a-half hours a day writing, and it may sound bizarre to the majority of people but I count myself lucky for having a job I enjoy.
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So if anyone was to get a thrill from assignments it would have been my young studious self, right? No. As a serial procrastinator, I did not.
But I might have if I was half as smart as Allison Garrett.
Tasked with writing a review of a movie that she had seen she gave a cheeky 19-word essay on the iconic 1999 film Fight Club... and it paid off.
Directed by David Fincher, the flick stars Edward Norton as 'The Narrator' and Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden.
A lot goes on in Fight Club and it would actually be quite an easy story to detail with the word count building up no problem... but Garrett knew of a genius, yet ballsy way of making it even easier.
Taking to Twitter, she shared her brilliance: "The assignment description for essay 5 was to write a review of a movie that we had seen. The opportunity arose, and I took my chances."
So, what did Garrett write?
She quoted the epic line, which let's be honest if you knew the film you knew what she would've written.
Her review read: "The first rule of fight club is: you do not talk about fight club."
And all the way at the bottom of the page Garrett added: "That's it. That's the essay."
It was apparently enough to see her score full marks - 100/100.
Garrett also commented on her post: "I cannot say that I am sorry because that would be a lie. Am I Proud? Yes."
Fortunately, we also got to hear from her professor - who was equally as awesome for getting on board with the review.
Their feedback read: "I struggled over this grade for a long time. I finally decided you get a grade for a laugh and how relevant your review is for this particular movie.
"Let me warn you: do NOT try this kind of thing with other professors; they may not have my sense of humor."