9 Students That Nailed College Life

An Ohio State University student became the most popular kid in school after winning his class a perfect score on their first chemistry quiz with an amazing paper toss. Every year, Dr. Christopher Callam, an organic chemistry professor at Ohio State University, gives his whole class a chance to ace their first quiz without even studying. He's apparently a very hands on kind of guy who likes to demonstrate how chemistry works. To help his students better understand acid-base chemistry and proton donors and acceptors, he throws a paper ball into the crowd and if the person who catches it can toss it across the class and into the trash can, he gives everyone a perfect score on the quiz.

This year, the hopes of dozens of nervous students rested on the shoulders of Vinny Forte, and he more than lived up to their expectations. A phone-recorded video shot by fellow student Rachel Brown shows Forte making the one-in-a-million shot and throwing the entire class into a frenzy.

The paper ball toss has apparently become a tradition at Ohio State University, as Callam says he has been offering students a way to ace the first quiz of the semester for over a decade.

Nothing alleviates the pain of enduring a boring college lecture like delicious bacon. That would explain why a Mississippi State student recently brought his George Foreman grill to class. A classmate snapped this amusing pic and posted it on Twitter. As you can see, the kid has it right there on his desk.

I'm wondering if the professor had anything to say about this. While it may have helped the student who brought the grill, I have to imagine that the smell of bacon sizzling in the classroom would have been impossibly distracting to everyone else.

Many college students use laptops to take notes during class. Not this guy. The student from Georgia Institute of Technology took an old typewriter to a lecture for that purpose. The professor was not amused and asked him to mute the sound effects.

Now that's how you give a PowerPoint presentation. Meet 23-year-old Raymond Luna from West Covina, California. By day, Raymond is a part-time student at Mt. San Antonio College, majoring in Computer Science. By night (or just in his spare time really) he fights crime — sort of. Raymond and his girlfriend, Alex Morris, are huge fans of cosplay and are members of The Cosplay Leaguers.

Raymond/Batfleck recently had to give a presentation in his speech class on the history of cosplay. So, he decided to dress the part. Don't worry, he asked his lecturer, Professor Crossman, in advance. She even allowed Alex, dressed as Wonder Woman, to film his classmates' reactions. Oh, and he even used the Batfleck voice changer to give the presentation.

Van Truong, 19, is a sophomore anthropology student at the University of Florida. On December 2014, while studying for a final exam in biology, she thought of a new way to organize her notes. Using a whiteboard at a campus library, she recreated Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night. This was Truong's way of keeping the task interesting. "I knew if I had to read through a packet of notes, I'd fall asleep," Truong said. "I don't know if I would've lasted through three hours just going through notes."

Truong said she chose to recreate Starry Night because of its composition. Unlike a portrait of a person, which she thought would look disjointed if made out of individual lines of biology notes, words and sentences could look like Van Gogh's brush strokes.

Keith Fraley is a software engineering student at Michigan Tech University. His roommate, Mark, is a mechanical engineering student. One night, Mark got drunk — very drunk. While thoroughly sloshed, he designed an airplane in substantial technical detail, complete with mathematical calculations for the design.

Later, Mark sobered up. He had no memory of the event. But his roommate did and explained it to him. Mark isn't certain that the plane will fly, but he plans to build an RC model to find out.

Inspired by 2015's blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road, a Florida college has converted his wheelchair into a spectacular Mad Max costume.

Benjamin Carpenter, 20, made the most of his physical disability to create the ingenious outfit, and it was an instant hit at the Tampa Bay Comic Con last month. His photographs even made the front page of Reddit.

Carpenter, who was born with spinal muscular atrophy, uses an upright wheelchair to move around, and he managed to work that right into the costume. He rigged the wheelchair so it could be attached to a chariot or a larger buggy, and then added finer details, emulating lead character Max Rockatansky's look as a mobile blood bank in the film.

Medical schools hire actors to pretend to have certain ailments and students then attempt to diagnose those afflictions. Ryan Jones, a student at the University of Virginia, examined one of them, Jim Malloy.

Malloy was pretending to have an aortic aneurysm. Jones noticed that he was doing a very convincing job of it. He showed all of the symptoms of an actual aortic aneurysm. Sometimes medical schools hire people who have real medical problems to make these simulations more realistic, but this was not one of those times. Jones informed the attending physician, who suggested that Malloy gets further tests.

Malloy did, and later had surgery to correct the problem in his heart. By calling early attention to the problem, the medical student had saved his life.

At the Columbus College of Art and Design, two rogue college student are creating quite a stir, but not by any normal means. They aren't cheating or stealing; they are causing a creative riot. The anonymous duo, who go by the name Dangerdust, sneak into a classroom each week and create a masterpiece out of nothing but chalk. The pair were seniors in Advertising & Graphic Design, and they were probably busy with a larger than life course-load, but they remain passionate about their weekly chalk art. They create some of the most beautiful (and inspiring) art you'll ever see.