I left my essay to the day before deadline ama

Also send help in the form of caffeine, good research, and the ability to write a half decent essay

 

what's the essay to be on?

 

In a nifty 3,000 words I shall be assessing the effects of the second-sino Japanese war on China's environment and evaluating how ecological disaster contributed to human suffering.

Yay.

 

May Bullshitticus favor you.

 

may he grant you wisdom using the orb of wikiped and the google rod.

 

As a warning, posts that go aggressively off-topic will be deleted. Or, you know, are just unproductively spiteful.

I would hope that everyone takes their essays seriously, and takes pride in the substance of their own ideas. At the very least, keep in mind that your professors have to read those things.

 

I was talking to my lecturer and she was saying for undergraduate essays she gets alotted 10 minutes to mark each paper within her salary. Anything beyond that is unpaid within her own time. 10 minutes?! That's crazy when people spend weeks researching *cough* and hours upon hours *cough* writing them. Makes me wonder how much of my grade is just a "gut" feeling on how my essay reads rather than it's actual content.

P.S I'm 1,300 words in. Progress is occurring!

 

Good times, Gemma, good times.

Our professors had little swarms of assistants (doctorands) that would read our protocols, and some of them were pretty diligent. When I was but a wee first (or second?) semester student I got horribly rekt by one of them because my first PC protocol ever was a bit shite.

 

Wait, what on earth is her contract like? Payed time for grading essays?

 

American school is weird. I never had those constant assessments every week etc, it's always been exams at the end of a term/semester!

Yes indeed! I'm basically waffling about that flood and the resulting famine a few years after for 3k words

 

I just wanted attention/pity over the fact I'd have to pull an all nighter. Not everything has to turn political!

1,600 words in, 400 for an intro and 400 for a conclusion I'd say I'm about 500 words off of being done!

Editing the the nonsense that I've spewed up will be fun.. I've use affect/effect so many times I've confused myself over which one means what and keep editing it out to things like impact instead to save my brain from imploding.

 

Ew.

 

gl mang

 

ew yourself, your words don't affect me! (d'you get it I did it wrong on purpose) ((Unless I accidentally did it right in which case that was some kind of double pun thing going on)) I honestly don't know anymore. I even have a tab open dedicated to the differences between effect and affect. But you can get the same impact using different words, so why bother?

 

Thanks for making this quirky, quiet thread, Gemma. Hope the essays turn out well.

 

all the warr crimes

partially kidding.

 

I once had to write a five page paper with bibliography for an English class. The paper was due when class started at 8:00 AM. I woke up at 6:00 AM, wrote the paper, had a full page of bibliographical references, and turned it in for a B. Thankfully the school was only three miles away. For my paper, the topic was landmines, which I had studied for a speech class when I was in high school, so I already knew what I wanted to cover. All of my references were online, except for one book that I had bought for the speech class. It took me as long to write the bibliography as it did to write the other five pages.