Let's say you're fresh from getting accepted to the school of your dreams, due entirely to the cleverness of your ridiculously creative essay. You're so creative, creativity is shooting out of your ears. You're Hephaestus, the god of creativity, except, you know, wearing clothes.
So early in the morning you grab that creativity by the horns and fling it wildly at your environmental science homework. "Briefly explain hard water?" Easysauce.
With that out of the way, you sprint creatively off to your trig class, where you suddenly see even these mundane triangles in a new light. They want you to find X? You'll find X. With a vengeance.
Hmm. Okay, so that didn't go so well. But it's cool, because next you have physics, and you own physics. You are the mayor of Physicstown. You roll up and dispatch a simple word problem:
"Oh dear?" What was wrong with that? Maybe you weren't creative enough. Let's try that again:
Okay, so maybe you're not the mayor of Physicstown. Maybe you just live in a Best Western on the highway outside Physicstown. Whatever. You can still ace the extra credit, with what little creativity you have left in the tank. Come on, bonus points!
Well, it was worth a shot. If there's a lesson to be learned here, it's that teachers appear to have a very limited sense of humor. If there's a second lesson, it's that creativity is best left to essays, and maybe pottery. Even if your teacher is secretly amused when you answer a question about genetics by drawing a ninja turtle, she is not too likely to give you credit for it.
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