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Just weakness. Everyone knows you write your term paper starting less than 24 hours before the deadline and crank out a fully realized thesis made out of nothing but energy drinks and Adderall
i was doing that with multiple papers with 1 week(the professor allowed you to turn in previous terms paper late in the semester, this made everyone, including me just cram within it out withina few days. also because the exact same essay prompt/ subject was online it was eaiser to write the paper and not have to fully sit down and think about it. he wasnt like most other english professors, as he allowed you more time to write essay. most of them are very strict on the writing style, grammer, or "convincing arguments" of your essay. for A CC course.
Ah… I remember these days, being in a somewhat nervous caffeine induced psychosis, typing in an haughty fervor and writing 20+ pages with unmerited arrogance and barely an ounce of fear. Printing it out before it’s due and feeling like I pulled off an Ocean’s theft after managing a 93%.
Don't forget no proofreading
and cite sources correctly, and correctly put the sources in the correct paper format on the last page, which was the most annoying part. i remember the annoying hanging indents you have to use.
Slaming monster until my heart feels funny, but that GPA isn't going to keep itself up
I can remember the dizzy feeling, like the room was spinning like it was yesterday lol.
Cs get degrees baybayyyyy, anything over a 65% will do
70% in non-stem majors. 60 is the norm for chemistry, gen chem was the hardest chems compared to org chem, biochem was in between, but also had a terrible teacher. and this was how COMMUNITY schools were teaching in my area, and not universities, at a univerisity it was so much easier to understand gradingwise. of course if you want to ge to more advance classes or grad school, C's arnt acceptable at all. it was better to drop or disenroll early on, or get D. withdraw, they made it extremely difficult to do it. because many programs might calculate Ws harsher than a D depending on where you want to go.
A local idiom is "60% is the good life, 61% is wasted time".
True, I just took pride in pulling a paper out of my ass at the last second and it appearing like I put weeks of effort into it lol.
Not every one is like that! Some of us start on the very day they get the assignment, work on it for a good hour, then without a fail every week stress about it for a whole afternoon until finishing the paper on the due day.
You guys had Adderall?
We just ate spoonfulls of instant coffee and ground our teeth into little bumps.
Cocaine was legal then
Believe it or not, I still do my best work under the gun. In my current job, sometimes people pay me extra to expedite my turnaround, and I thrive under the pressure. Perhaps it's the promise of extra money, but I just feel so much more focused knowing my hard deadline is fast approaching.
Yeah, I always purposefully wait to do my projects at work until the last second. If you don't have time to do anything else, you don't think about doing anything else. Plus it helps when someone forgets about a project and sends it over to me with way too little time left, but I get it done anyway since that's the amount of time I'd have allotted myself regardless. I always clock a bunch of overtime and make sure to talk it up like it was a huge undertaking when that happens, though, so they don't think they can just give me more work all the time.
Oh yeah, I believe you bro. We all have adhd
There was a time before when we just had coffee.
Nah, if you're old enough, then cocaine would have been legal and cost $0.05
I always just got it done early and slacked off after the fact without the stress lol. I still half assed most of the pointless stuff and only tried hard when it was stuff I cared about or actually for my field.
Congratulations on your normal executive function
Who me? I'm autistic. Getting it done was the only way not to fall apart. Putting it off till the last minute was a sure for way for me to fully break down!