Comments | abhoiles: i wish i had time to waste sitting in the fishbowl watching videos like the guy next to me

abhoiles

i wish i had time to waste sitting in the fishbowl watching videos like the guy next to me

Sep 25, 2005 21:05

This paper is just going to suck, I admit it to myself now. Why do good professors ask broad, baseless essay questions? Hope he enjoys my disorganized, 5-paragraph-style, 8 pages of bullshit. Gagh.

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readysetevolve September 26 2005, 01:20:56 UTC

i'm eating hot pockets while studying because i saw corpse bride today and it made me even more worried about dying alone.

thanks for the phone call today, it made me wheeze. :)

abhoiles September 26 2005, 02:54:17 UTC

i love hot pockets. i wish i had one right now--it would make the fishbowl so.much.better.

v_for_vendetta September 26 2005, 02:38:32 UTC

don't feel bad. it's probably way better than everyone else's disorganized, 5-paragraph-style, 8 pages of bullshit.

mangopickle September 26 2005, 02:42:45 UTC

Abs, sirriously.

Don't front on muh turf. I just barfed out 2000 words on How To Be Gay without making any real points and/or conclusions.

I think this is why we're English majors.

abhoiles September 26 2005, 02:53:35 UTC

I know. I get a lot of enjoyment out of the fact that I hate writing essays, and as an English major, I get to write them all the time! Woohoo!

p.s. i enjoy the title of the paper you just wrote.

mangopickle September 26 2005, 04:18:33 UTC

I'm the zenith of searing wit. SEARING!

But thanks, doll.

Oh I don't know if you got the memo, but "I just ran into Adam, Abbi, and Fish in Angell" has become the new "Hey what's going on?"

abhoiles September 26 2005, 04:48:19 UTC

What? Replacing a question with a statement? Can English majors do that? What's going on?

hah, yeah, we have a quiz in that class tomorrow, too. damn.

dug ventures a guess anonymous September 27 2005, 12:42:31 UTC

"Why do good professors ask broad, baseless essay questions?"

So that students will take it upon themselves to narrow the scope of the question (using the ever-powerful THESIS) and thus spare the professor the unpleasant task of reading 50+ versions of the same essay.

If an essay is open-ended, I take more time and find a quirky question to answer. If the essay is very specific, I emphasize my writing quirks (not always a successful tactic). The point is to always express yourself in the most original way possible.

Or to poop something out in the hours leading up to deadline. I do that often enough too.

Re: dug ventures a guess abhoiles September 27 2005, 17:16:50 UTC

doug, your insight astounds me once again. thank you for that.

on a less sarcastic note, my house is having a party on saturday. you should come.