Id just repeat myself and add fluff to get 5 pages, I got pretty good from cliff notes
What did the random man add to this?
Encyclopedias, a library card, and a typewriter
Honestly i still never wrote 5pages essais, 4th page was never full 🫣
Big font. Double spacing. A couple of bullshit tables. I’ll turn your essay into 7 pages.
one of our literature teachers had a thing about students who didn’t read the books from the course and she was giving out a “free one” to any student who would bullshit their way through report creatively. barely anyone ever managed to get a grade that way though because it wasn’t creative enough.
In high school I took first place in the essay contest at the regional academic decathlon competition with an essay on Frankenstein (the assigned novel for that year).
I hadn’t read Frankenstein.
No AI but the sources at the bottom of a Wikipedia page were the real MVP.
Catcher in the Rye is a tail as old as time about a famous MLB catcher turned farmer and written by JB Salamander.
C+
Burn bright and fade fast. I do not miss that shit ngl. I do still love reading, though.
Replace every shorten form of word to actual two words to get page full! It’s to It is They’ve to they have They’re to they are
Are people actually saying shit like this? I weep for humanity.
The year was 2010. I was taking a required English class for my degree. The final was a surprise hand written essay. That final might as well have been raising a barn for most of the class.
I might have been in trouble if it was cursive. Fucking capital G
I had an art history class that had hand-written essays for every question on every exam. You brought your composition notebook to class and sat there writing two or three paragraphs for every question. There weren’t very many questions (6-8 IIRC), but still it was pretty grueling.
Or asshole teachers that have a long form essay exam but only give A if it is not only correct but beautiful and excellently written, not even for an English or writing course.
fuckinG?
It’s been a while since I was in school, but it annoyed me that for things like this teachers rewarded either parroting whatever they told us or just mindlessly copying content we found somewhere else (also quantity > quality, which sucked also because we had to write everything by hand). If AI could at least make them value actual thinking for a change, it’d be nice.
Let me tell you about the time I failed a class for doing extra work. It was a graduate level ethics class, the only F I have on my transcript (and, of course, EVERYONE who sees my transcipts wants to know why I failed ethics in grad school):
The class was Christian Ethics (I was in a theological program) and I had already begun doing my own reading in postmodern theology, which overlapped a lot with Christian ethics. So, when I wrote papers, I drew upon the work I had been reading (which was extra from what was on the syllabus), articulating different approaches to ethical issues based on that work–like I assumed one did in a graduate level course. Every paper I got back was graded terribly. Guys in my class who barely read stuff were acing the class. I couldn’t understand. So when I got my failing grade, I considered a few options, deciding on taking a directed study with the professor of the class in the hopes that I could better understand what went wrong.
It was halfway through that directed study that I realized the dude just wanted me to regurgitate the syllabus back at him. He wanted me to basically parrot back his own stuff. Once I figured that out, I did much better. But my wife thinks it’s hilarious that I got an F in grad school for doing too much work.
I had a philosophy exam where one of the questions was a riddle.
I’m guilty of perhaps learning a bit too late that in school you’re supposed to learn how to learn as opposed to learning every specific thing that they teach you.
What you went through is a prime example of the “don’t-get-too-involved” that seems like a workable approach to many things in life, and that teacher was maybe well aware of the irony of it all.
I think I only ever did that once or twice, and it was not for a good grade. Yeah, English was definitely not my strong suite… even now. But I can at least write a mean story and/or fanfiction when I don’t have writers block. And I don’t mean something you’d see a young tween write on DeviantArt.
That’s more than cog suckers could ever hope to achieve.
Meme aside, it’s refreshing to see punctuation used in a meme, and it makes it so much easier to read
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