I conspired with my high school friends to create the worst art project ever, and the teachers were fooled into thinking it was good.

I have never forgotten this and it still makes me laugh to this day. I went to an extremely strict and religious school growing up, and it was known for being incredibly academically difficult. At the end of the year we would have an exam for each of our classes, and for our art class we had to submit our final projects. They were always very strict on the rules of what they wanted you to make, but one year they gave us pretty much a free rein to create whatever we wanted, as long as it was tasteful and followed the proper rules of the class.<br><br>So as an early teen, I was not incredibly talented in drawing, I could draw well enough to get by in the art class, but I never really enjoyed it. So at that time in my life I wasn’t the most creative person. My friends would often spend hours on their project, and the more they did the bigger the picture would get, so they could be sure to get the proper grade. I on the other hand would spend maybe half an hour between classes working on it. The problem was that the project was due the next day, and I had still not put any effort into it. <br><br>I got bored with drawing my project, so decided to create a picture that was supposed to be a flower. But really it was just a bunch of squiggly lines that kind of resembled a flower. It was absolutely awful, and I knew I was going to get the worst score in the class on it. So I made a bet with my friend that I could give the teacher a project that was completely awful, and she would still be convinced it was good. My friend and I then spent hours coming up with an elaborate lie to tell the teacher about my project. <br><br>The picture was of a flower made out of random lines, and I drew a small circular dot in the middle of it. I’m not really sure how to describe it, I guess it was sort of similar to a Jackson Pollock painting if I had to compare it to anything. Anyways, my teacher would always pull the most absurd explanations out of the students artwork. An example that comes to mind is one time a student created a color wheel with all of the primary and secondary colors, and my teacher said it was a representation of the earth, with each color of the wheel representing a different season. So that’s where we got the idea for the lie, was from that. <br><br>My friend and I then made this elaborate lie about how this was supposed to be the sun, and each of these lines that I had randomly drawn were supposed to be the different rays of the sun, and with the dot in the center was the actual sun. We even made up this whole thing about the color I used, and how I was trying to represent different things with the color I used. For example red was passion and blue was calmness, and I think we even used yellow, which was happiness. So we gave this huge story to the teacher about how my random squiggly lines were the different representations of emotions that are found in the sun. I then put the picture on top of a big piece of cardboard, so it looked bigger and better quality. <br><br>The next day when it was time to turn in our projects, I was incredibly nervous. I couldn’t believe I actually went through with it, and was trying to trick my teacher into thinking a random squiggly picture I drew was actually a good piece of art. When I gave her the picture she immediately started talking about “wow this is incredibly good, you’re so talented.” And I knew I had won the bet. I then received an A on the project, and my friend and I laughed about it the entire day.<br><br>It’s been about 6 years now, and every time I see a similar drawing, I think of that day when I was able to trick my teacher into thinking something so awful was actually good. But, it’s my secret, and she still has no idea to this day that the picture I gave her was actually just a few random squiggly lines that resembled a sun.