3 AM... paper due in the morning... hard to focus... typing "..." is surprisingly soothing... want to take nap... passing depends on paper... still sleepy... Amp-Red Bull mix not helping much... can't find assignment sheet... bad at citations... no chance to revise... wish I noticed finals approaching sooner... dots lulling me to sleep... paper is currently not being written... paper needs to be written... hard to think... want to sleep... paper can't be written in sleep... need to write... can't sleep... sleep... sleep...........
You are so screwed. You're even worse at this than I am. When I have something like this on, I don't even go on KHV. I'd suggest getting two hours sleep, and wake up at 5AM. It'll give you a second wind. Then again, you might just oversleep and fail, which would be A Bad Thing™.
Why did you trademark "A Bad Thing"? This class actually had a lesson on last second papers. Once you crash you need to give yourself periodic breaks. If you don't productivity goes in the shitter real fast.
Because it's A Bad Thing™. Why else? o.0 You actually got a class on last-minute papers? Please share more of these techniques. We were just told to avoid it entirely. Seems kinda silly though, as at some point, it's going to happen, so I may as well know how to properly do it.
There are two things that aren't for last second but make you life easier. 1) As far out as you can (maxing out at three weeks) read an article on whatever your paper is on. The back of your head will be going through the subject matter so it is easier to understand when you get down to actually writing the paper. 2) After the paper is done leave it some where and spend a full day forgetting that you even have that class. Then you can come back to it with a fresh set of eyes to pick out the errors that seemed right as you were writing. For the actual last minute writing. 1) Find a skeleton. These are sources that you can't really cite but gives the structure you want and then you just throw legit cites over it so that no one can really tell that you were using it. 2) Don't block quote. If you split what you want to be block quotes into several smaller quotes you cheat the word count by leading in all of them and tying each one to the paper, as well as making yourself look less lazy. 3) When you're reaching your "crash point" find out how much time you have left to work and subtract an hour (more on that hour later) divide the needed work among that time (for example I need to do a paragraph every 45 min right now) When you finish a segment early give yourself the rest of the time as a reward. If you finish late find out what you can cut out because your not going to make it and trying to do so will result in very bad writing that the world would be better without. 4) Spend the remaining hour like this. 15 min. Read over the paper for glaring errors that you can still fix (hanging thoughts, incomplete sentences, the song lyrics you accidentally typed, etc.) 15 min. "Mickey Mouse Junk" my teacher's name for it that he never explained. This is all the stuff your teacher wants (page numbers, double spacing, grading sheet, title, etc.). Final 30 min. The "Oh Crap" head room. Leaving time for your printer to break, for you to hit every single red light, w/e. If it isn't need the congrats, go hang out somewhere with the extra time. I'll likely expand on this later.
You know, I think it's easier to follow my school's advice, and not get into the situation. The thing about block-quotes can apply to normal work too, I think. What sort of results are you expecting from this? Will it give a pass, or an A?
Many people got A's on the assignment where we were forced to use it (5 page paper due two days after assigned date) I'm not that good of a writer and tend to get Bs with it. My teacher actually has mastered that art and was able to write a 10 page term paper that got an A+ in two of his classes (I think he said English and Eastern Philosophy) in two hours.
I'm not sure whether I'm worried that I'll be doing 5-page papers in two days in the future, or relieved that good grades can still be achieved. ... No, it's definitely worry.
Don't worry you probably won't have an assignment like that. My teacher is just insane. Two facts about him. 1) He once made a class's midterm topic a persuasive paper where then needed to convince a general audiance that he either had no soul or was satan himself. 2) His hobby in college was changing people's religions. Especially to one they were previously prejudiced against.
He sounds incredibly awesome. Just being taught by him would be worth the stress. Care to elaborate on those stories about him?
