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beccaelizabethI started my year as I meant to go on, with reading a bunch of big thinking for class.
... as far as I can tell it was composed by an infinite number of monkeys. Some sentences appear to make sense, and the quoted passages are very pretty, but what the one has to do with the other is never made clear. Sometimes the writer throws it all in a blender and takes three or four words from several sentences on different pages in different chapters of the book and quotes them in a row as if this proves something. I don't know why they bothered.
On the plus side, if the teacher is impressed with this, it's entirely possibly I can pass using the power of sheer bullshit.
I just have to write this one essay. One. And just because I can't finish reading some of the texts we're supposed to be essaying on, and can't assemble a thought at all at all, that shouldn't be so very much of a problem, right?
... I was hoping to start the year with a grand revelation and some essay, but I guess panic and concentrated reading will do for now...
... as far as I can tell it was composed by an infinite number of monkeys. Some sentences appear to make sense, and the quoted passages are very pretty, but what the one has to do with the other is never made clear. Sometimes the writer throws it all in a blender and takes three or four words from several sentences on different pages in different chapters of the book and quotes them in a row as if this proves something. I don't know why they bothered.
On the plus side, if the teacher is impressed with this, it's entirely possibly I can pass using the power of sheer bullshit.
I just have to write this one essay. One. And just because I can't finish reading some of the texts we're supposed to be essaying on, and can't assemble a thought at all at all, that shouldn't be so very much of a problem, right?
... I was hoping to start the year with a grand revelation and some essay, but I guess panic and concentrated reading will do for now...
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Date: 2010-01-01 01:51 pm (UTC)>On the plus side, if the teacher is impressed with this, it's entirely possibly >I can pass using the power of sheer bullshit.
You've just discovered the secret for surviving college and corporate life. Go you. ;)
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Date: 2010-01-01 10:04 pm (UTC)Unless s/he is trying to teach you to spot bullshit. One of my Uni teachers asigned us a text by some big-name-in-the-field and stressed how popular and worth-to-know it was. Next time in class one student had to use only arguments from the text in a discussion and soon got stuck, because it was mostly hot air and some big words, but little sense.
Of course, if your teacher really is easy to impress, you can lean back and concentrate your efforts on your other classes. :o)