Discussion Question: What's new with school?

[fashion_piranha]

Sorry folks, no review today :( I've a paper due tomorrow about postmodern fairy tales, and I'm plugging through my final draft. (It's so sad; writing the actual paper doesn't take me all that long, but getting myself to BUCKLE DOWN AND STUDY/RESEARCH/WRITE adds about three hours to every hour spent at work. I am the queen of procrastination and

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[in_lieyw_of]

In high school, my English teacher let me do a creative screenplay in which Douglas Adams and Hamlet met each other in the afterlife and ended up discussing the finer points of insanity, life, death, and philosophy, while I used lighting and their environment(s) as metaphors. Somehow, it all worked out!

Good luck on your paper! Midterm time is killer...

at least you finish your papers...

[ext_117086]

When I was in grad school, there was a fellow teaching assistant in the ultra intense Early Women Writers summer class. We had to write a 20-page research &/or critical paper by the end of week 4 (on top of 3-4 hours of reading a night), and this fellow TA had decided to write about Mary Wollstonecraft, and three nights before the due date, he still hadn't read even ten pages of research toward his paper. He stayed up in the TA office with three others of us, and instead of even trying to make headway, he was playing stupid flash games on the computer. And the morning the paper was due, he dropped the class. (Dr. F. was absolutely disgusted.)

Re: at least you finish your papers...

[fashion_piranha]

Heh heh dummy.
(Although I have been known to do similar things in my youth, so I guess I can't laugh too hard. I can't imagine making it to grad school level and still doing that, tho'.)

[vibrantharmony]

Midterms! But seriously folks... I'm a psych major, and we don't seem to write papers, which makes for less homework and somehow more procrastination. I can't count the nights I've been up to 2am because I wouldn't buckle down and just read the stupid chapter when it was still light out!

The most interesting paper I wrote in my first degree, in child and youth studies, was probably in Children's lit, comparing a bunch of the orphans in the books we'd read over the year. Orphans make for good reading, you know :P

[jeannietran]

I have a group project in every single one of my classes. Four group projects!

The content of my classes hasn't been too stimulating lately. I have 3 psych classes and a business class and they all seem to always reference the same studies. Asch's line tests. Milgrim's study. Stanford Prison experiment. I swear in one day I had three different lectures on the the Stanford study.

[forever_meg]

I just started grad school, so I haven't had any papers yet! My favorite papers in college were always for history, though, and I was quite proud of filling several pages of an exam book with an essay full of details on the start of the Hundred Years' War.