1:45 am - 12/06/2011
Can You Help Him?
Our tipster tells us that the paper is due this afternoon.
Can someone please help poor procrastinating Chester-Chet Haze-Hanks (whose videos and live performances you are hopefully well-acquainted with, or he might blush!) finish his homework so that he can pass Fucksaw Development During the Industrial Revolution or whatever his class is officially called and move forward with his education?
If you're willing to share your notes, you can try him on his Twitter. You can also tweet him your notes one by one.
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Tom Hanks' Son Needs Urgent Help With Final Paper Due Today!!
Can You Help Him?
Our tipster tells us that the paper is due this afternoon.
Can someone please help poor procrastinating Chester-Chet Haze-Hanks (whose videos and live performances you are hopefully well-acquainted with, or he might blush!) finish his homework so that he can pass Fucksaw Development During the Industrial Revolution or whatever his class is officially called and move forward with his education?
If you're willing to share your notes, you can try him on his Twitter. You can also tweet him your notes one by one.
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btw I always waited until the ~last minute~ to work on papers but when it came to 20/30-page papers "last minute" meant 3/4 days before the deadline and when it came to my 100-page dissertations "last minute" was, like, 10 days before the deadline. But I always used to do all the leg work well in advance, gathering up my material (books, notes, photocopies etc etc) and working on a plan and typing up the bibliography etc little by little over a period of months. I just didn't actually read the material or actually type the paper until the very end. I think I wanted to have a safety net, it was like "OK so when I panic because I wasted all this time, at least I'll have everything I need right in front of me and I'll just get cracking and not sleep for 10 days".
I'm legit curious and don't mean this to be insulting, but have you ever tried doing it any other way? Have you ever tried completing a draft a couple of weeks in advance, having someone review it, taking time to step away from it, alter it, re-review, do the final touches, and have it done a couple of days early?
It always amazes me that people say things like "no, this is how I do it, this is how I work best, I do my best work when I'm doing it last-minute." It just seems so illogical to say that you would do lower-quality work if you spent more time on it.
The worse thing is I never learned. I did what I described above with all of my papers for my law degree and with all of my papers for my master's degrees. When I wrote my dissertation for my first master's degree I legit didn't sleep for 2 weeks (it got to a point where I was delirious and couldn't speak in coherent sentences, but my typing skillz were unnafected somehow). So when I was writing my dissertation for my second master's I told myself "YOU DUMBASS. YOU WILL NOT DO THIS TO YOURSELF AGAIN". And then I did. Ugh. I don't know about the quality of my work (both my dissertations got a distinction) but I can tell you that the quality of my life (and mental health, lol) would have been much better if I had managed to learn from my mistakes.
I have tried everything: cutting-edge comp theory, ancient comp theory, theory from the 1970s, theory from other countries. I've brought in textbooks written in 1910 and textbooks written in 2010, held them side-by-side, and said, "Look, profs were saying the exact same thing ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. This is a classic case of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it. Maybe you should do what it says, and, you know, WRITE AN OUTLINE.'"
IT DOES NOT MATTER. THEY DO NOT CARE. YOU WILL NOT CHANGE THEM. Just take a long slurp out of your Diet Mountain Dew, count to ten in your mind, and point out that their topic sentences are weak.
And all these people in here saying they made great grades anyway? Hey, you know what? They probably did. ONTD has a bit of an aptitude for writing--after all, ONTDers are in here every day, writing comments and reading and thinking about stuff. But at four universities I've taught at, on average only 1 out of 4 incoming Freshmen finish a Bachelor's degree. So...there's that to think about. Just think about that while you evaluate poor research integration all day.
I tried to do them early and review it, and ask someone to read it.
My end of course paper (I'm from another country, I'm not sure how those are called in the US) took me months. It was always going to my professor and them back to me. just like my article from especialization.
its so much better.
Anyways. All I have this week is an English portfolio and two finals BOOM. (except I'll most likely fail my bio one. BUT I GOT A'S IN EVERYTHING ELSE MY GPA SHOULDN'T BE TOO BAD RIGHT? RIGHT?)
and love your icon, bb
Actually that's a lie because I have work, but I work freelance so I can do that shit WHENEVER I WANT. I could be nocturnal and sleep all day if I so chose! Shit, I could work STONED if I wanted to!*
* I actually did both of these things last night and I got my work done in half the time it usually takes me. MUST REPLICATE!