City of Amnesia

I'm posting this instead of working on the last 17.2 percent of my 1500 word essay analyzing the Federalist and Anti-Federalist viewpoints.

I managed to quote Pope John Paul II in it, and am thinking about weaseling in some more, just because I can, and they take up words.

So, express your hate of essays here.

...I don't have anything against essays all that much. Sure they're a pain in the ass to write, but other than that I'm pretty good at writing them. And being the kind of writer I am, I always go over the limit of pages given. Like, if a professor wants eight pages, I'd end up giving him 14 or something like that.

Also, I passed both of my rhetoric classes without doing the final paper because I didn't feel like it and because I did so well throughout the class beforehand. Actually, in RHT 160 I did the paper but I did the morning it was due and it was so much absolute bullshit that I don't really see it counting. Hell, the professor didn't either but I still passed.

Ask about me.
Peace.

I've got to do a 2000 word essay on infection control with 20 references! I haven't even started yet cus i have no idea how to to even begin since the course convenor doesn't make it clear enough for anyone.

Ugh, that's gotta suck, Galatea. In a situation like that, it's probably best to just start writing whatever comes to mind and rework it later.

However, I'm probably not the best person to take advice from, as I despise writing of most any kind, though I've been told I am a good writer. Seriously, I'll do everything in my power to put off writing a paper as long as I can.

Yeah, like cutting off your own hands, but then i suppose you can't post here and at BK anymore.

That might make me sad...

You look different, by the way.

Lol, those are the best kind of essays.

Anarchy in MLA format all around!
Peace.

Wear gloves and a mask. Wipe up after yourself. Sterilize everything you used.

Bam, 14 words, done.

Brilliant!

You know what's fun?

Having to write a 10,000 word essay on analyzing Wuthering Heights from a deconstructionist point of view. It's kind of simple if you've read the book, but 10,000 words? C'mon, that's pushing it.

Also, having to do this tacked on with reading a collection of Native American Oral Literature, some Washington Irving, Phillis Wheatley, Sigmund Freud, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and a 50-page chapter on revision, in which is then followed by the forced writing of a 5 page short story.

And that's just a weekend's worth of work. And I'm only an undergrad. And Ford knows how it will be in Grad school.

-Scott

(hi)

I don't "hate" essays as long as I'm writing about a topic that interests me (however considering I rarely get assigned anything interesting they can be a real pain). I'm a freshman in college now, and damn, it is like learning to write all over again. MLA isn't my favorite, but once you get used to it...at least you'll live through it.  :-\

MLA has parenthetical notation, right? I always found that a bit easier to work with than footnotes, but it's the style I'm more used to anyway.

And talk about something I hated, Wuthering Heights. I only saw the movie, but Jesus, I could imagine myself coming up with quite a bit to deconstruct that piece. Not 10,000 words worth, but still more than I'd usually manage to write.

What do you mean? my avi? my sig?

Um... probably both. I can't remember what you were using a month ago.

This, unless its absolutely a useless one and has some obscenely low required page amount. Which is rare, also those two things usually happen in conjunction

Oh yeah, that's true. Like if its something like two pages, than I can do that in like 30 minutes. Real essays though I tend to go a bit... overboard, even if its something I don't even care to write about.

Yeah, you don't... get too many of those "two page" essays in college anyway. Ironically enough, I have a one page problem in business stats to do for next week.
Peace.

I got a bunch of 2/3 page essays in college, mostly in my writing classes. Being a biology major was awesome, you never had to write papers.

Really? My bio teacher showed us her term paper, she needed a big box for it...

Yeah, High schooler.... taking freshman college english.... And getting A's. do I hate essays? No, not at all... *rubs in faces* Ahem...

We had essays at AIT! What the crap, I'm studying to work on computers, not brush up on my MLA format!
War.

At least they don't force you to suddenly convert to that other meathod that no one uses, and there fore can't tell you the name of it...

I've got 45.4% of an essay due in less than five hours written, though I have read the 116 pages I'm supposed to pull quotes from, and have a few quotes just ready to go.

Same class as the essay that inspired this thread, which I got a 94 on, which was surprising, and better than everyone else in the class I've asked (in your face people who worked on it for a week)

Sldo: Not having slept in 18ish hours is starting to be bad, and will probably only get worse once I hit the 30-mark.  That's never a good time to be in class.

Well, I know soon enough I'll have essays again, but in the meantime I have a little breathing room. Taking certification courses is much easier on my nerves, I must say.
War.

I have a paradoxicall relationship with essays; on the one hand, I have whole journals full of essays that span scores of pages on what many, I imagine, would consider the driest, most boring crap to ever spawn from the heads of the world's intellectuals - trends in evolution, the nature of male and female sexuality, and even a 229 page book report on African history.  Yet, I will procrastinate to the very last minute on a 5-10 page school essay.  I don't like doing things just for the grade, and I'm very independent when it comes to my avenues of intellectual expression.

Peace.