April Fool's Day is a great time to mess with your friends and family and get away with it unscathed. However, April Fool's jokes can come with their fair share of consequences depending who you play them on. With that being said, here are some practical jokes students would play on their professors if it wouldn't mean automatically failing a class.
1. Telling them your honest opinion about their teaching skills.
This would quite literally be a ~practical~ joke, but not one a teacher would take lightly. But if there were ever a day to get away with it, wouldn't it be April Fool's day?
2. "My dog ate my homework — and my motivation for your class."
A new spin on and old classic. Imagine their reaction as they took that whole sentence in. Priceless, am I right?
3. Emailing the entire 200+ student lecture that class is canceled.
Imagine the teacher being the one that drags themselves out of bed just to find out class has been canceled. I say "imagine" because if the teacher is not amused this would backfire way too quickly.
4. Submitting an assignment you're actually proud of that isn't what they asked for.
They say you learn more if you care about what you're learning, after all. Your professor should just be happy you actually put effort into an assignment. It's two jokes in one if you think about it.
5. Rick-Rolling them during a presentation.
Don't have enough research done to present for the minimum required presenting time? Just throw in an extra slide to Rick Roll your teacher. Even if they don't appreciate it, your classmates will.
6. Sending a photo of you and your dog as a "valid" excuse.
I don't know a more valid reason to miss class than to spend time with your dog. What if they looked sad when you tried to walk out of the door? Plus, your professor gets a photo of your dog. Win win.
7. Sending in a medical excuse that says you're allergic to learning.
People can be allergic to anything these days, after all. This would be harder to pull off, and I'm not sure forging a doctors note would go over well. But everyone would have a good laugh. Right?
8. Holding all future assignments hostage until your professor grades all past assignments.
If they don't have time to grade your work, how should you have time to do more work? And if they say it's because they have to grade multiple students' work, remind them you have to do multiple professors' work. The talking back might ruin the joke, but the cute ransom note might be a fun art project.
