I was a complete badass in school. I got a detention because I was 10 seconds late to class 3 times. Beat that.

Not school, or even kind of academia, or even relevant at all, but I once got in trouble at a robotics competition a while back. The competition was to see how many ping pong balls each robot could pick up in an enclosed space, and drop off at several plastic cups over the course of 2 minutes.

The competition in this particular round was pretty damn great. She put an "enclosing" apparatus at the bottom so that when her bot would clamp over something, nobody else could take it without having the flip the thing over. Add that to some crazy fast speed and it was ridiculous. My bot had a "vaccuum" in the form of a paper towel roll attached to an RC arm [so I could bring the arm down, activate the vaccuum, and store the ball in the roll].

Now, there were size limits on the robot, but only for the height and width- not length. I knew that I was outmatched, so I decided to troll the other person, and the rules of the competition, just for fun. I took an 18x5 inch piece of scrap metal and slapped it onto my robot, along with some randomly heavy blocks of steel which I put on the side of the bot. So I decide to go to the next round.

Everyone is laughing their heads off at how stupid my bot looks, including the competition.

That is, until the competition starts, and the opposition realizes that the giant arm + weight ballasts that I put on means that all I have to do to prevent anyone from getting any points is to keep the bot's arm over the ball so the other bot can't get near it.