--- title: UGA Students Order Hit on Themselves to Avoid Finals description: Just hit the books instead canonical: https://time.com/92264/college-students-order-a-hit-on-themselves-to-avoid-finals/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-08T15:32:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:30.373Z og:title: College Students Order a Hit on Themselves to Avoid Finals og:description: Just hit the books instead og:url: https://time.com/92264/college-students-order-a-hit-on-themselves-to-avoid-finals/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5337f07e2abafe11/698684533bc99963881a2341/classroom-desks.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Desks in empty classroom og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: College Students Order a Hit on Themselves to Avoid Finals twitter:description: Just hit the books instead twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5337f07e2abafe11/698684533bc99963881a2341/classroom-desks.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # College Students Order a Hit on Themselves to Avoid Finals by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 8, 2014 3:32 PM UTC  Desks in empty classroom Desks in empty classroomGetty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 8, 2014 3:32 PM UTC Instead of hitting the books, two students ordered a hit on themselves. Two University of Georgia students didn’t have a death wish, but they did wish to be injured _just_ enough to get out of their final exams. The two devised a plan and took out an ad on Craigslist. While the ad has since been [flagged for removal](http://athensga.craigslist.org/trd/4448740347.html) by the online classified site, according [to Flagpole.com](http://flagpole.com/news/in-the-loop/uga-students-would-rather-be-hit-by-car-than-take-finals?utm%5Fcontent=buffera6420&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fcampaign=buffer), a University of Georgia Athens news site who took a screenshot of the ad, the advertisement requested that the hit man literally hit them with a car. While too lazy to study, but not overly sadistic, the women explicitly stated that they did not want to die, just simply be “injured enough to get out of taking our finals here at UGA.” Wisely the ad was placed under the site’s “skilled trades” section. As for compensation for the act, the reward would be the act itself, e.g. “hitting two lovely ladies by vehicle w/ permission.” One can only hope that the entire ad was actually a final exam in creative writing. \[Via [Flagpole.com](http://flagpole.com/news/in-the-loop/uga-students-would-rather-be-hit-by-car-than-take-finals?utm%5Fcontent=buffera6420&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&utm%5Fcampaign=buffer)\] **MORE**: [Middle School Teacher Suspended for Assigning Lil Wayne Lyrics as Homework](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/05/middle-school-teacher-suspended-for-assigning-lil-wayne-lyrics-as-homework/) **MORE**: [Are You As Smart As a Fourth Grader Should Be?](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/12/smart-as-fourth-grader/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/92264/college-students-order-a-hit-on-themselves-to-avoid-finals/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/92264/college-students-order-a-hit-on-themselves-to-avoid-finals/"},"headline":"College Students Order a Hit on Themselves to Avoid Finals","datePublished":"2014-05-08T15:32:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:30.373Z","description":"Just hit the books instead","url":"https://time.com/92264/college-students-order-a-hit-on-themselves-to-avoid-finals/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Education","student"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5337f07e2abafe11/698684533bc99963881a2341/classroom-desks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5337f07e2abafe11/698684533bc99963881a2341/classroom-desks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Desks in empty classroom","caption":"Desks in empty classroom","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/92264/college-students-order-a-hit-on-themselves-to-avoid-finals/","name":"College Students Order a Hit on Themselves to Avoid Finals"}}]}] ```