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As an English/Writing major, I have it fairly easy at college. None of my classes require a lot of intensive homework or note-taking, outside of a shit-load of reading (almost all of which is interesting and good literature), and my borderline non-existent class attendance is usually just fine. Despite the fact that I can spend a lot of my time at this place just coasting, one thing always pops up that completely destroys my life for periods of 12 to 24 hours:
PAPERS (or essays, or whatever else you want to call them)
Right now I'm at my school's library attempting to write 3500 words comparing the religious perspectives of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This paper is due at 2 P.M. tomorrow, and I have about 200 words written. I did take some of what I like to call 'study drugs', which are helping, but my attention span is still quite narrow, and my level of motivation remains hovering just above zero. As with just about every paper I've ever written, I had made plans on starting this one about a week ago to make things easy on myself--plans that were roundly rejected in favor of drinking a lot and sitting on my ass. Luckily, the closer I get to a deadline, the faster and seemingly better I work.
So, SE++, how do you approach writing of papers? What was the most recent one you had to write? Are you just some kind of faggot biology/chemistry/etc. student who just has to write lab reports and such that pretty much write themselves? Would you be willing to come to where I am and put a bullet in my head?
PAPERS (or essays, or whatever else you want to call them)
Right now I'm at my school's library attempting to write 3500 words comparing the religious perspectives of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This paper is due at 2 P.M. tomorrow, and I have about 200 words written. I did take some of what I like to call 'study drugs', which are helping, but my attention span is still quite narrow, and my level of motivation remains hovering just above zero. As with just about every paper I've ever written, I had made plans on starting this one about a week ago to make things easy on myself--plans that were roundly rejected in favor of drinking a lot and sitting on my ass. Luckily, the closer I get to a deadline, the faster and seemingly better I work.
So, SE++, how do you approach writing of papers? What was the most recent one you had to write? Are you just some kind of faggot biology/chemistry/etc. student who just has to write lab reports and such that pretty much write themselves? Would you be willing to come to where I am and put a bullet in my head?
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oh god I'm uncontrollably vomiting just reading it
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Writing a philosophy paper right now on why life is absurd but we shouldn't kill ourselves anyway. Very uplifting. Thanks, Camus!
I'd help you out, but you know...travel times and all, most likely.
Now it assists in my procrastination at work, but to a far lesser extent.
it's only got to be 90+ pages
it's due in two weeks
this year it's "What The United States Flag Stands For"
Everyone writes a page. Piece of cake!
(It doesn't need to be coherent, right...?)
look I have an outline here just write a page of it a piece you ninnys
Or like the Chineese flag and refer to it as "The future US flag"
also got accepted to an advanced fiction writing class which is awesome
And she looks mystified when I correct her in class or start laughing audibly at her comparing the SPCA to Auschwitz.
write for ten minutes
set a timer for ten minutes
post on forums for ten minutes
repeat until paper is finished
Make about 80 pages of it really graphic sex scenes.
And I have to do a sociology paper about deviance/conformity and social control. Should be pretty easy, but fuck sociology.
and then I gotta model these items
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Yeah, it totally is. FI is just a terrible, watered-down English class designed to make it easy for engineering/premed/math majors to get their English credits while simultaneously depriving anyone interested in an academic English class of their education. And the kicker is that it's mandatory, so no matter how much of a waste of time you feel like it is, you have to take it.
I could seriously rant for hours about how frustrating it is. I love English, I love reading and writing and discussing the intricacies of literature, and they have totally scrapped that particular English class formula for something not unlike "bullshitting papers 101: mongoloid edition".
Hooray for dual enrollment degrees!
Seething with jealousy
I got to skip this class (credit from High School). I was so happy.
I wish to God I had taken AP English.
Are you also at VCU?
Of course now I'm using this forum to procrastinate from searching for a job
it's the best thing*
*worst thing
No, I'm Engineering Physics at University of Alberta.
edit: And I have to write a 20 page paper on the screenwriting techniques used in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang due friday.