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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by WhyEssEff@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

I got so stressed about the time limit that I just fuckjng stream of consciousnessed all over it. why the fuck did I not just rewrite the paragraph. I had like 15 minutes left. need a premature autopsy performed on me to figure out what the fuck is going on. Finals week is regressing my brain back to fifteen years of age shinji-screm

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[-] Egon@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hey I once procrastinated an application for a nation-wide state sponsored contest for new writers. You had to provide 40 pages of material + an additional piece of art of any type that you'd made in response to a series of prompts of theirs. I had a year. I did it in a day... They told me it was some of the best stuff they'd read in years. I once wrote 70 pages of an urban planning project in a single night and got an A.

This isn't to humblebrag, this is to calm you down: Don't discount your stream of consciousness.

You've been thinking about the project for a lot longer than 15 minutes, you've been moving the pieces around in your head. Writing it all with no time for corrections isn't necessarily as bad as you fear: it means you also had no blocks, no time to stop, no time to diminish raw unfiltered power pouring from your brain onto the paper.

You wrung your mind and heart out in the time you had, because you couldn't do anything else. You didn't have time to hold back. That might not be a bad thing.

You're going to be all right. Whatever you gave them is far from the worst they've received and it is at least interesting. It will be fine.

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago
[-] Egon@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Everything will be well and this too shall pass like a wave breaking on a pier. You will still stand tall after, stronger than before, but with a much funnier story penguin-love
Also your professors are all nerds so they will appreciate the reference

I watched The Bear and used Escoffier's Brigade system as an example of alternative methods of organising labour in one exam and an alternative to organisational structure in another class. I had not prepared for these exams. I pulled it out of my ass. My profs loved it.
Profs love weird shit from left field. It makes it seem like you're so into the material you don't even feel the need to bother with it, so you're comfortable getting weird with it

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago
[-] Egon@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

Editing is just fancy second-guessing think-about-it

[-] dat_math@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

trying to take advantage of your professor's weebish tendencies by composing your argument with familiar symbols is academic dishonesty

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago

I don't even know if this guy has heard of anime, I just couldn't think of another metaphor because I'm operating on 3 hours of sleep kril-at-sea

[-] dat_math@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

lol I'm virtually certain they've read less coherently composed arguments wrapped in even less accessible allusions to/allegories of popular culture

congrats on completing another final

what was the most "what the fuck?" thing you learned in environmental law?

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

mostly just reinforcement of my hatred for antonin scalia packwatch

[-] pastalicious@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Just making sure he knows you didn’t stealthily make AI write the answer.

[-] Egon@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

AI would never

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Absolutely disagree, that's just knowing your audience.

[-] dat_math@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

so when I use havana syndrome gun in reverse to decode my instructor's most emotionally salient visual memories to optimize discussion posts for participation points, it's "unethical", but when whyesseff does it, it's knowing her audience?

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

You get it back and it just has Congratulations written on it over and over.

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

It'll be a funny story later (it's already a funny story)

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 months ago

Did it at least make sense?

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I used an AT field across the states as a metaphor for hypothetical iron-fist EPA pollutant regulations shinji-froggy-chair

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 months ago

I mean, yeah. It kinda makes sense, if you know what a AT field is.

[-] nocturnedragonite@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 months ago

But that actually makes sense lol

[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

That sounds more coherent than some bits of Eva tbh.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Oh, as in EVAngelion.

[-] PaX@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

We need to shut anime down until we can figure out what's going on

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

tbf the second impact was an environmental catastrophe shrug-outta-hecks

[-] Melonius@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is incredibly funny I'm so sorry

Also what Egon said

[-] jwsmrz@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago

shinji get in the law exam

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

If it makes you feel better, I found a random ass excuse to drop Samurai Jack in my politics of Eastern Europe class to critique the antisemitism under Brezhnev, since Gennedy Tartakovsky's family pulled out in 1977 because antisemitism was that unbearable.

Now OP, if there's any other things you got to drop in essays we'd all love to hear it.

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