Enjoy my distraction.

[icarus]

Current pattern of work:

1 - Write two paragraphs of miserable Greek History essay.
2 - Two minutes of glassy-eyed internet escape.
3 - Write two more paragraphs of essay for control freak's micro-managed, poorly written essay prompt.
4 - Five minutes to eat chocolate.
5 - One paragraph of awful essay for the professor who attempts to control every word that leaks out of your pen...

I think you guys should at least enjoy some of my internet escape time.

For those of you who love Greek history... I love it, too. I just hate the fact that my professor is a terrible writer, doesn't know it, and attempts to force everyone to write like her.

My essays are good. If you give me enough rein, they can be very good, and fun for the professor to read.

Put me on a chokechain and the professor deserves what she gets. But I don't deserve to be penalized for it -- unless I go with my whim of including a two page Socratic dialogue between "Socrates" and "Hesiod." Which I'm tempted to do, just so I can at least enjoy the ride as my GPA sinks.

Comments

[tty63.livejournal.com]

That closely resembles my evening. Except I'm only working on one essay (due tomorrow) and I get to choose the topic. (Which I realized when I was wondering if I could include an extra part. Of course! I'll just adjust the topic.)

I had a prof like your control freak prof. For him it was more of a desire to not grade crappily written and poorly organized papers, but for people who write good papers, it was incredibly annoying. My papers for that class were terrible and got good marks. Sad.

My favourite story about an essay for a prof was one where I considered getting drunk before writing it. I don't drink, but thought the paper would probably be better if I wasn't sober while writing it.

Internet distraction time is up! Another 100 words coming up. I'm not sure I have a thesis yet and I'm more than halfway done. This is probably a bad sign.

My sympathies on the crappy essay topics. I wish you luck!

*turns up music and goes back to writing*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

The worst part is, she's a terrible-to-mediocre writer. I have some of her work here, and I agree with the reviewer (of a different work but same writer) that her writing is inelegant and the way she leads into her ideas gets in the way of making her point.

I would say that her writing needs Draino. It is clunky, tries desperately hard to be clever, and fails at that rather embarrassingly.

Then she tries to force the students to write like her.

[rellan.livejournal.com]

I say do what you think is best. Crappy advice, I know. But I've gathered the feeling over reading your posts that this class is pretty much a loss anyway so you might as well do what you think will be a good essay.

I usually spent my time on essays going 'I have no fucking clue what I'm writing about'. Even with research I never could...'connect' with my subject. So they always meant nothing to me. I'm much better with tests.

Is there a professor review that students can do at your school? Or is there someone in a faculty position that you could talk to about this class? Or just a complaint department? I imagine you could give a 10 page paper with reasons detailing why this prof sucks.

Anyway, good luck on the essay.

P.S. How's WG? Doing better, I hope.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Right now, WG's bored out of his skull because I've taken over the computer, he can't play any movies (the computer is using the TV as a monitor at the moment, long story), and his injured foot is keeping him indoors.

There is a professor review form, but I missed my window to do that.

[kagyakusha.livejournal.com]

I'm doing a classics minor...and That is a seriously WTF?!! assignment. I don't know how you're dealing with that professor at all! X_X what does she expect from such a ridiculous assignment? oi vey! Good luck. You'll need it! I hope that somehow you manage to make Crazy!Prof happy and get a good mark despite the Stupid that is that assignment.

I will use my transvestite!Oedipus stabbing his eyes out icon in your honour now.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to get a good mark from this class no matter what. She's already given me two very low grades for the other essays although I had an almost perfect mark for the midterm that's propping up everything else.

[rane-ab.livejournal.com]

Progress is good, so I'd just count this as a win. :D (If, uh, not so much fun.)

[harveywallbang.livejournal.com]

that's totally how i am when writing papers. or actually at work, which is bad. 10 minutes of work, 5 minutes of mindless internet escape (usually LOLcats or FML).