Nope, it's true. In the eleventh grade, our school started a new subject called "Applied Technology" that you had to take. The teacher was a college professor and decided that giving kids a "jumpstart on college work" would "benefit us." So we had to write a THREE HUNDRED page research paper about a controversial topic of our choice throughout the course (I forget how long it was but I think it was a semester). We'd have to write it out of school because the entire class was devoted to teaching us how to do it. I ended up writing about why rap music should be a more widely accepted genre (granted, this was back in, like, 2000). The only rule was that the last thirty five pages HAD to be filled COMPLETELY with nothing but references and credits to books, websites, articles, and quotes we got our info from.
So anyway, I did the entire report, and two nights before it was due, I sneezed all over the front page and the entire side of the stack. I tried wiping it off but there were little black stains on it that looked and smelled gross. So I had to do everything all over again within the span of two night, of which I got no sleep. You can imagine how angry I was.
I know it's hard to believe, but that's the truth. What blows my mind was that people write research papers that long for their Doctorial degrees in college, and yet I was still a year and a half from graduating high school. So Rooster, you better not be hoping for that degree.