Paper

[The Mercenary]

Yeah. I know. I'm up at 5 pages, and I've done two paragraphs. I'm focusing [heavily] on government propaganda, political motivations for President George H.W. Bush to have initiated the assault on Iraq, and whether the decision not to depose Saddam Hussein was motivated by money, since the American government was selling arms to both Iran and Iraq, who were fighting each other with American weapons, as well as the oil embargo being imposed by OPEC.

I'm dedicating one paragraph to each one. My paragraphs are several pages long.

I'm annoyed at this book too. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

Iran-Iraq War ended years before Desert Storm.

I thought they were still skirmishing and such. *sigh*

Oh. And.

Heh. I had a paper due a couple weeks ago that I didn't finish on time, but I got to turn it in a week later. With computers, printers, word processors, flash drives, compatibility issues, there's always some buyable excuse. I told my teacher my printer wasn't working so I frantically tried to save it on my flash drive so I could print it out at school. Then I told her that I had several saves and and because I was just so tired, etc., I accidentally copied over an earlier version and the page I printed wasn't finished (I had managed to actually do about half of it). This was the Friday before a week off, and when I tired to email it to her, she said she couldn't open it and to bring it the day we returned.

So yea, just come up with some detailed complex lie that no one would suspect you made up.

Won't work. We lose 20% for every day it's late. Counting weekends. No excuses accepted at all.

 

[Lost-Lamb]

Heh. I had a paper due a couple weeks ago that I didn't finish on time, but I got to turn it in a week later. With computers, printers, word processors, flash drives, compatibility issues, there's always some buyable excuse.[...]

So yea, just come up with some detailed complex lie that no one would suspect you made up.

And if someone questions you, cover it up with more lies.

 

[Kobrag]

No, just **** the *****/bastard till s/he gives you an A.

 

[The Mercenary]

Now that that piece of **** is finally finished, I'm going to go have a drink.

 

[Taateli]

Now that that piece of **** is finally finished, I'm going to go have a drink.

Pah, you wimp. I just finished the last paper I have before summer. So, no stress about school or anything for months now (no stress at all? You wish). And guess what I'm gonna do?

Go to sleep. Eat that and choke on your drink.

 

[morgoth2005]

Pour water as we say in Russia. Bluff your way through. That's what I'm doing and that works pretty well.

However, if you want to do it properly, don't just use wikipedia. All these modern wars are incredibly documented. For example an illustration or even just a photograph will help. Also look up the sources that are less well-known. For example a quote from a politician or a soldier would give you understanding of not the geopolitical concepts but how it also felt on the ground. The more source-work you do, the better. Examples and illustration always works better than pure theory.

 

[Swadius 2.0]

Heh. I had a paper due a couple weeks ago that I didn't finish on time, but I got to turn it in a week later. With computers, printers, word processors, flash drives, compatibility issues, there's always some buyable excuse. I told my teacher my printer wasn't working so I frantically tried to save it on my flash drive so I could print it out at school. Then I told her that I had several saves and and because I was just so tired, etc., I accidentally copied over an earlier version and the page I printed wasn't finished (I had managed to actually do about half of it). This was the Friday before a week off, and when I tired to email it to her, she said she couldn't open it and to bring it the day we returned.

So yea, just come up with some detailed complex lie that no one would suspect you made up.

You know that your teacher knows you don't have it right? They're not stupid, they're just too polite to point out the absurdity of your claims outright in front of the whole class .

 

[Wellenbrecher]

Heh. I had a paper due a couple weeks ago that I didn't finish on time, but I got to turn it in a week later. With computers, printers, word processors, flash drives, compatibility issues, there's always some buyable excuse. I told my teacher my printer wasn't working so I frantically tried to save it on my flash drive so I could print it out at school. Then I told her that I had several saves and and because I was just so tired, etc., I accidentally copied over an earlier version and the page I printed wasn't finished (I had managed to actually do about half of it). This was the Friday before a week off, and when I tired to email it to her, she said she couldn't open it and to bring it the day we returned.

So yea, just come up with some detailed complex lie that no one would suspect you made up.

You know that your teacher knows you don't have it right? They're not stupid, they're just too polite to point out the absurdity of your claims outright in front of the whole class .

Last year I sent one of my profs a broken .doc. [just took a .bmp and renamed it, hooray]
He actually apologised as he had to ask me to print it and went on a 10 minute rant about how the university servers are crap.
Turned out to be one of my better decision yet. He still remembers me* and thus trusts me. I'm spared a lot of bull**** some others have to do.


*when a course has 40+ people on a regular basis, this is kind of positive actually

 

[arbites_augmented]

Same here. I'm thankful that teachers don't have the intelligence to realise that I've just sent them a file that's not only in the wrong format, but it's also completely empty.

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

Heh, in my Uni, if your work is handed in even 1 sec after 12:00, your mark automatically gets capped at 40%

 

[Kobrag]

Poor you, we have a days leway but after that...they put mouse traps in the hand in slot of the box we put stuff into.

 

[Lyze]

I'm calling bull**** on that, Kobrag. That's a liability claim waiting to happen - no way a business would ever do that, and do not be fooled, universities are businesses. They must protect their interests.

 

[Sushiman70]

Will your grades drop if you "forget" it?

 

[Ruthven]

Will you grades drop if you "forget" it?

If they don't, that place sucks as an institutional facility.

 

[thesneakster]

Heh, places still let you have the excuse of technical difficulties? haven't had that since... oh grade 5.

 

[arbites_augmented]

I'm calling bull**** on that, Kobrag. That's a liability claim waiting to happen - no way a business would ever do that, and do not be fooled, universities are businesses. They must protect their interests.

Why aren't you calling bull**** on everything Kobrag says?

 

[Dain Ironfoot]

Will your grades drop if you "forget" it?

Yes. Universities don't give a **** if you want to spend your money getting poor grades. No excuse is valid except illness which requires a whole bunch of signing from a doctor. You can appeal, but you better have a damn good reason, "I forgot" won't cut it.

And you can't stutter excuses to a barcode scanner and a member of staff who doesn't know or care what the piece of work is.

 

[Zilberfrid]

My students have worse reports since I have made a simple, yet effective plagiarism check, teached my father on it as well as my collegues. Now reports are not as good as before, but they are theirs...

 

[The Mercenary]

Yeah, for every day or fraction thereof that it's late, we get 20% taken off the grade. No excuses accepted. Anyway, I finished the essay portion, and the report section. Now I get to spent my summer writing more essays.

 

[Ruthven]

Yeah, for every day or fraction thereof that it's late, we get 20% taken off the grade. No excuses accepted. Anyway, I finished the essay portion, and the report section. Now I get to spent my summer writing more essays.

Not with that conjugation you won't!