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SprewellSleeve



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Reports are such a waste of time
#14359470 - 04/27/11 03:33 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm doing a history report that's three pages. I'm probably not gonna remember most of this, and I don't even get this stuff to begin with. The classes are torture. Just stuff I don't get. Can't blame the teacher, not much more he could do I guess. I think most of the other students feel this way.
One thing I won't do is take out my phone to text in the front row like some girl does. Guess he doesn't care though. Maybe he knows how boring the class is.
Just gonna copy and paste and edit it into my own words and move some things around. Three pages of this is a waste of time.
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koraks
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Subject? History is a bit broad.
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: koraks]
#14359490 - 04/27/11 03:48 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Western Civ.
I'm doing one on the Franco-Prussian War now.
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Yeah I feel you. I don't really give a damn about what The Tempest shows about Shakespeare's attitudes towards colonialism, yet here I am typing about it. Blargh
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: Gastronomicus]
#14359582 - 04/27/11 04:57 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hm, lots of dry matter for the gray matter. If it's any consolation, the architecture of complex products and new product development processes are not too hot to write about either.
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Three pages...sounds like you're getting off easy for a history paper. We all have to do the bullshit classes. I'm currently writing a paragraph for each of 25 plants I personally enjoy in the Horticulture greenhouse. 
Also, the Tempest is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: Deekay]
#14360262 - 04/27/11 09:42 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yeah the Tempest is great (although it shares that distinction with almost every other play by Shakespeare in my mind). Turns out Shakespeare wasn't anti-colonial, but he did take more into account regarding the humanity of indigenous peoples than others did in his era.
Just finishing the last few sentences now. Huzzah. Is it an A paper? Fuck no. Is it done? Fuck yeah.
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: Deekay] 1
#14360265 - 04/27/11 09:43 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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3 pages and you're bitching? lol
I had to write a 12 page paper on the Patriot Act and let me tell you
FUCK
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: Uzziel]
#14360274 - 04/27/11 09:45 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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pffft... I have to write a 150+ page thesis on original research.
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: DieCommie]
#14360289 - 04/27/11 09:47 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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DieCommie said: pffft... I have to write a 150+ page thesis on original research.
Sounds like you're almost done with school haha
But yeah, god damn. I wouldn't know what to do... 150 pages is a lot O_0
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: DieCommie]
#14360291 - 04/27/11 09:48 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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DieCommie said: pffft... I have to write a 150+ page thesis on original research.
And account for every imaginable related bit of research in the process huh? I know how you feel.
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: DieCommie]
#14360320 - 04/27/11 09:56 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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They gave a page limit? If so, that's bullshit. If you can succintly desribe your research, then so be it. I probably could have done mine in 80 pages.
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: koraks]
#14360335 - 04/27/11 09:59 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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drop out and do something meaningful? i dropped out of school in grade nine. as you know school is such a waste of time. college as well unless you're going into a handful of careers where it is crucial to have schooling. but for example, business courses are a joke. everyone i work with that took business courses know nothing relevant or useful.
i feel sorry for people in those "holding pens".
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: badchad]
#14360337 - 04/27/11 09:59 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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No page limit here, but I'm not aware of anyone in my field of research who got away with less than 200 pages. There's sort of a natural lower limit there for qualitative business research.
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: ToastedTubby]
#14360343 - 04/27/11 10:01 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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ToastedTubby said: i feel sorry for people in those "holding pens".
I like holding a pen. I feel sorry for you, since you're apparently not aware of the pleasure of academic or literary creation
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: badchad]
#14360351 - 04/27/11 10:03 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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badchad said: They gave a page limit? If so, that's bullshit. If you can succintly desribe your research, then so be it. I probably could have done mine in 80 pages.
No, that is just the lower end of the average page count.
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: koraks]
#14360352 - 04/27/11 10:03 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I had a colleague rag on me because I told him I was trying to reach 100 pages. He seemed to be of the mind that longer = better work. Then I explained to him that within 80 or so pages was 5 years of research, over 100k in grant money, 3 senior author papers, 2 secondary authorships, and a contract for a fellowship at one of the top 5 medical research institutions in the country.
Then I asked him what he accomplished in his 250 page thesis.
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: koraks]
#14360354 - 04/27/11 10:04 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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koraks said:
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ToastedTubby said: i feel sorry for people in those "holding pens".
I feel sorry for you
i don't
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: ToastedTubby]
#14360355 - 04/27/11 10:04 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
ToastedTubby said: drop out and do something meaningful? i dropped out of school in grade nine. as you know school is such a waste of time. college as well unless you're going into a handful of careers where it is crucial to have schooling. but for example, business courses are a joke. everyone i work with that took business courses know nothing relevant or useful.
i feel sorry for people in those "holding pens".
So what McDonalds do you work at?
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Re: Reports are such a waste of time [Re: badchad]
#14360379 - 04/27/11 10:10 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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badchad said: Then I asked him what he accomplished in his 250 page thesis.
Is he in the same field of research? I spend much of my time around grad students in the exact sciences, and their theses tend to be _a lot_ shorter than those in the social sciences. Same with journal papers; compare the average length of a Science or Nature publication to, say, a paper in the Academy of Management Journal. Different strokes for different folks, taken to a higher level.
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