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10-08-2012, 00:24
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Nothing like waiting till the last minute... lol
Had a 5 page paper to do this week for my IT Governance class. I actually forgot about it and remembered it at 11pm tonight. It was due at 1 am, central time. Yikes. If I was late, even a minute over, I would have at least 10% deducted from my grade.
Drank some strong coffee and got down to business. The format was APA and my weakness is using Word 2010. I need to learn it better. Much better.
After realizing that Word keeps citations, I was able to use some old ones to create a bibliography.
I sent the paper in at 12:59 am. Just one minute under the deadline.
Who says a degree in English is useless? lol
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10-08-2012, 00:31
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I remember those late night papers in college. The internet as well as "Copy and Paste" were my friends... 
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10-08-2012, 00:38
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I remember those late night papers in college. The internet as well as "Copy and Paste" were my friends... |
When I got my first degree, there was no Internet or computers. We had to type out everything. 'Whiteout' was our friend.
Students, these days, have it way easier now.
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10-08-2012, 00:43
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Brass Vulture
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Originally Posted by Detectorist
Students, these days, have it way easier now.
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I totally agree with you there. I thought it was a joke for the most part and a way for an institution to commit highway robbery for the most part. I did learn some things in college but learned far more out in the field which I didn't have to pay for.
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10-08-2012, 01:08
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Originally Posted by Detectorist
When I got my first degree, there was no Internet or computers. We had to type out everything. 'Whiteout' was our friend.
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We also had to walk to school. Ten miles, barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways.
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10-08-2012, 01:10
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We also had to walk to school. Ten miles, barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways.
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What's this "we". I grew up on a tropical Island. I took the bus.
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10-08-2012, 01:27
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Gotta be careful with internet and copy-paste, there are easy ways of detecting this.
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10-08-2012, 02:52
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I don't miss writing papers at all. 
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10-08-2012, 04:13
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GET A ROPE!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Detectorist
When I got my first degree, there was no Internet or computers. We had to type out everything. 'Whiteout' was our friend.
Students, these days, have it way easier now.
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You think that was bad, I had to chisel mine in stone tablets and if I made a mistake I had to hike to the quarry, break off another tablet and start over.
And yes, the quarry was up hill both ways.
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10-08-2012, 04:28
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Paramagician
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Well...I had to...Yeah, I've got nothing. My school was easy and so was college because of computers and the internet.
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10-08-2012, 08:12
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Detectorist
When I got my first degree, there was no Internet or computers. We had to type out everything. 'Whiteout' was our friend.
Students, these days, have it way easier now.
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funny, I got my undergrad in 92 and went back from my mba 20 years later....crazy how much the internet changes things! first paper I wrote after 20 years away I was surprised at how much easier Word makes references etc.
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10-08-2012, 10:03
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5 pages? I could do that in my sleep. I've got a 15 page (minimum) research assignment coming up in graduate statistics.
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