Table of Contents for a Syllabus College Students Will Actually Read: Buzzfeed Edition
- Lisa Whalen 
- Oct 24, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 10, 2022
- People on Twitter Are Saying This Course Title Was Sexed Up to Boost Enrollment 
- 15 Course Description Easter Eggs That Prove This Class Inspired Taylor Swift’s Lover album 
- Prerequisites That Will Have You Freakin’ Fed Up 
- Buying These Required Textbooks Will Wipe Out Your Future Children’s Inheritance 
- 64 Hoops You’ll Have to Jump Through So the College Doesn’t Lose Its Accreditation 
- Are You Team Kate & Will or Team Meghan & Harry When It Comes to the Student Data Privacy Act? 
- 53 Millennial Behaviors That Made This Syllabus 53 Pages Long 
- Only Superfans of the College’s Emergency Procedures Will Score 100% on This Quiz 
- Just 21 College Policies That Will Make You Wanna Dance 
- Submitting Assignments On Time Is the Latest Trend, and I’m Here for It 
- 24 More College Policies That Are Intense, Extreme, and Just Plain Required 
- Take This Quiz to See Which Campus Club or Organization You Should Join (or Not!) 
- Do You Know What Happens If You Plagiarize? Because I Don’t Think You Do 
- You’re Definitely a First-Year Student If You’ve Committed At Least 23 of These 50 On-Campus Faux Pas 
- Only 25% of Students Could Find Their Professor’s Office on This Map 
- 5 Grammar Rules That Will Make Gen-Zers Say, “I Totally Forgot I’d Learned That!” 
- This Course Calendar of Assignments Will Make You Angry 
- Would You Participate in This Icebreaker on the First Day of Class? 
- 23 Things Your Professor Expects That Are Legal But Annoying AF 
- That Answer Is on the Assignment Sheet and a Student Asked What?! 
- Choose a Greeting for an Email to Your Professor and We'll Tell You Which Great American Novel You Wrote 
- Is Your Use of a Smartphone in Class Normal? (sponsored by Samsung) 
- 49 Hipster Phrases for Sounding Smexy During Class Discussions 
- Skip Class to Meet Shawn Mendes and We’ll Calculate How Much Your Participation Grade Plunges 
- 19 Gadgets That Will Make Your Essay Shine (sponsored by the College Writing Center) 
- Buy an Essay from CharlieSheensTigerBloodforWinningCollege.com and We’ll Predict How Long It Will Take You to Graduate 
- The Best Excuses Heard This Week: A Midterm TikTok 
- Didn’t Withdraw in Time? How Not to Get Stuck with an F 
- Why Course Evaluations Are for Suckers (sponsored by ratemyprofessor.com) 
- It’s Week 16, Biatches! Can You Pass This Final Exam? 



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