1. Some courses were too easy and I thought I was wasting my time and considered applying for exemption. By the rulebook, only students who have taken similar courses in polytechnic were eligible. Projects I did on my own time that was more technically advanced than coursework, were not even considered as basis. Attempt to negotiate with professor to work on interesting/new/hard project (that will show my skills and understanding of subject) in exchange of exemption from boring coursework didn't go well either. (Hey, it is not about grades, it's about challenge and doing interesting work.)
2. Computer Graphics course, homework is to design animation of one 3D shape morphing into another one, but scene must be defined as parametric equation (x,y,z,t). I did it with PovRay, submitted scene source files and rendered avi file, but it wasn't accepted because I didn't do it the "right" way, which is to use special extension to VRML our professor developed. So I needed Windows to install extension to VRML plugin for Internet Explorer. My argument of "students should have choice on tools to demonstrate their understanding of theoretical concept" didn't go anywhere and I got zero for doing it with povray.
3. I was not happy about requirement of "GPA in top X% of class" to get into undergrad research program. I tried to get around of it with simple hack, if I could convince a professor there will be exception to that rule. Wrote a long letter to 4 professors explaining about myself, attached the abstract of research I was planning to do. All replied and met with them to talk about it. Learned that they don't have any influence/power on selection of students. Later e-mailed to who was responsible and got to quick and short NO.
If it were not my laziness, above things shouldn't have happened in first place. What I mean is, I don't want to sound like I am completely right on all situations here, I am just telling some anecdote stories about NUT syndrome I witnessed. Am I being unreasonable for expecting special treatment from school? They all sounds like common sense to me but answer was no every single time I asked something outside of the rules.