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by Jaxia @ 10:51 pm on October 9, 2005. Filed under Life

For my American Literature II class, I have an exam due tonight with 5 essays on it. My teacher put word count requirements on ALL of our essays. I thought I was done, but as I was reading over the test specifics just to make sure I didn’t miss anything, I realized I didn’t remember the correct word count requirements; I was 50 characters short on ALL of my essays.

Gah! That’s some crap! For some of these things, I was pulling stuff out of thin air just to eek out the answers I have already written!

Shouldn’t a *good* English professor encourage me to be concise?

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A *good* english professor shouldn’t have to put word counts on a test.

If it’s a ridiculous requirement (As in, say writing 500 words paraphrasing 2 sentences, and yes I’ve gotten that) then complain. Rattle the bars, tip the boat, squeaky wheel and all that.

The great thing about going back to college is that you’re not a little kid anymore. Now we old folks know how buisness works, so we can do stuff like demand our money back for professors who are just on power trips.

Comment by MaskedFencer — October 11, 2005 @ 12:19 am
nice article

Comment by free guy — October 11, 2005 @ 4:42 pm

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