I took acid once in college, staying up all night and still not having come down yet in the early morning, when I suddenly remembered I had a philosophy test I had forgotten about and not studied for. It was an essay test and the bulk of my essays were ideas that came to me due to my altered state of mind. Although the way the surface of every object in the room was pulsating with endless pretty patterns was somewhat distracting, I managed to complete the test and got a fairly high grade.
I’ve aced a few exams (calculus, assorted economics, geology) in community college while on pain meds for my headaches. I’ve also tutored math after a joint on one occasion (though not very effectively)
Not high grades, but in college ( way back then), I made side money and extra drugs by doing essays for jocks, usually on the night before the paper was due. I charged $20 and a few black mollies per paper and guaranteed a C. I would drop a molly and burn through the essay in one or two hours.
The jocks had already done some of the research since the profs required 3x5 note cards to be turned in on a schedule for a period of time before the assignment was due.
Easy money for me
Whaddaya mean by “black mollies?” I looked that phrase up on Wikipedia and it gave me a page about a little black fish. I assume you mean some kind of drug - adderall? Speed?
I’m curious about “black mollies” too. And wondering why I didn’t take that coke dealer up on his offer for me to write his essays when I was a freshman.
One of the professors on my thesis committee told me that the only way to really get some writing done is to have two glasses of wine first. Sadly, I was unable to take her up on her advice because I was pregnant at the time.
I wasn’t drunk OR high, but I took an older girl to her Senior Prom (I was a sophmore) the night before a big chemistry exam. I had 2 hrs of sleep. I aced it.
Dunno if this counts, but I wrote a computer program that does a three dimensional coordinate transform using spherical trigonometry while digesting 7 Percocet tablets, and it ran correctly on the very first compilation and is still in use today. On the other hand, even when I’m undrugged I find it curiously hard to split a lunch bill with somebody else and dole out the right change after a tip.