WAG - Well, what have you learned today?
I've finished my four papers.
And I've learned some stuff too, if that don't beat all.
One) When assigned three papers by a visiting speaker, with NO prior warning, taking a whimsical, conversational tone with the papers because they won't be graded by your teacher, makes the process go much quicker.
Exception: If you don't think the assignment will impact your grade since the lady isn't your teacher, you have the right to skip it all with the added catch that you can't skip the consequences.
Two) If the visiting speaker, who is a syndicated columnist, uses any material from your papers, don't expect credit, let alone extra credit.
Three) If one is supposed to search LexisNexis for one paper, and can't use the program LexisNexis, there is a simple solution. Take up half of the required space talking about one's imability to use LexisNexis, give some general recollections about correspondents, and wrap it up with a talk about the importance of impressions (because they are typically remembered much longer than facts). Just remember, there is therequirement that you can't skip the consequences.
Four) One shouldn't start reading the Toni Morrison book "Beloved" just after lunch if they intend to finish it before class the next day.
Exception: But one is free to go ahead and try.
Five) I discovered it's a lot easier to read "Beloved" at 2 a.m. in the lounge when one doesn't question the depressing plot as much.
Exception: When Toni's last chapter of the book repeats the phrase, "This is not a story to pass on," multiple times, one wonders why it was placed on the required reading list.
Six) If someone is playing Final Fantasy on the couch next to you, and there is a constant sound of BZAP! CZING! Ker-SPERR! BOOM!, it is easier to stay awake as well.
Seven) When one gets up early to finish a few papers, and finds himself faced with an extra hour he hadn't expected, sleep is what he should do, but it is more cathartic to rant on his blog instead.
Like I said, I learned a lot. Hopefully you did too.
And extra hopefully it was something other than, "Caleb is still an idiot."
But if it was, reinforcement isn't a bad thing either.
Have a good day.
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