Writing essays

Subject: Re: Writing essays Fri May 09, 2008 8:28 pm

Pass!

Subject: Re: Writing essays Fri May 09, 2008 8:29 pm

I had enough history in high school and college.

Subject: Re: Writing essays Sat May 10, 2008 7:20 am

Haha, bet you did, maybe I could go to the MLB straight out of HS...
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Mon May 12, 2008 5:00 am

Wow, that sux Holl, ours are on the last week of school, and I havent studied yet, but most of them should be easy.
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Mon May 12, 2008 10:55 am

My are going to be really hard. The one tomorrow is diagramming, everything we have ever learned (the sentance will be a compound complex sentance, with gerunds, participles, and infinitives. along with many other things). Also there are many other parts.... so thats not fun...
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Tue May 13, 2008 5:41 am

Doesnt sound like it, If my Algebra final is any bit like last year's, I should be fine, last years I passed easy. My history final is only over this last nine weeks of school, so im cool there. Science is easy, period. I can pass that final with minor studying. and french, I hate it, prolly will fail that one.
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Tue May 13, 2008 11:01 am

Hmmm, well lets see. I took a 60 question test today, and got 11 wrong. And then we did the diagramming... I had no idea what i was doing. Math I should be fine on... And spanish I have to memorize this conversation thing... yuck.
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Tue May 13, 2008 1:33 pm

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Subject: Re: Writing essays Tue May 20, 2008 10:24 am

Damnit! I have to write another 3-4 page essay today rant

Any Hindus / experts on The Ramayana out there?

All 3 prompts suck, but I'll probably write my essay on this:

3. Is Rama really never wrong?

Well he did kill someone so if I can justify that I can say he's infallible.
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Tue May 20, 2008 11:39 am

I have 3 essays due in the next 5 days, and then i'm out of school!!!
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Wed May 28, 2008 1:31 pm

Will these essays never end? What the hell? I'm not an English major. Most quarters I write like 0 essays. I just counted and this quarter I have to write a total of 10 (3 more).

Due tomorrow:
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY:
In 3-4 pages describe an experience that you have had either a very positive or a very negative outcome and use the ideas from one or more of the books you have read to help you develop a new understanding of why things occurred the way they did and what factors helped bring about this outcome.
Who cares? I haven't had any extreme outcomes - I like to keep everything neither good nor bad. I suppose I could write about how I broke my arm and how I'm afraid of needles now (although I don't think the two events are actually related - I'll say they are). This will be like the 55th time I've written about this event which is probably the best thing that's ever happened to me - if my arm didn't break what would those papers be about?

I also have to write a 1 page essay for cognitive psychology but I haven't even bothered to look at the topic yet since it's so short.
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Thu May 29, 2008 6:45 am

Both of those essays are done! 1 more essay this quarter. I don't know the topic choices yet, but it'll be a 3-4 page paper on the Tao Te Ching.
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im good at writing essays lol
i got a creative mind Smile

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Subject: Re: Writing essays Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:01 pm

I have to write another essay tonight Sad

Last one of the quarter (unless you count the four in-class essays I have to write tomorrow)!!!
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:19 pm

Paper due at midnight (although the professor made it clear that we can have pretty much a 2 week extension if we want it...I don't). I'll pick the topic that's pick a "chapter" and analyze it. Why not the 2nd one:

All beneath heaven knows beauty is beauty
only because there's ugliness,
and knows good is good
only because there's evil.

Being and nonbeing give birth to one another,
difficult and easy to complete one another,
long and short measure one another,
high and low fill one another,
music and noise harmonize one another,
before and after follow one another:

that's why a sage abides in the realm of nothing's own doing,
living out that wordless teaching.
The ten thousand things arise without beginnings there,
abide without waiting there,
come to perfection without dwelling there.

Without dwelling there: that's the only way
you'll never lose it.

yawn

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Subject: Re: Writing essays Mon Jun 09, 2008 6:03 pm

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Subject: Re: Writing essays Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:31 am

I hate reading poetry but I'd rather analyze it - unless it's a ballad (ballad is a poem telling a story, right?). If it's telling a story I get the same problem - nothing but plot summary. I don't know how to write an essay without mentioning the plot. I always get yelled at for it though.
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:36 pm

All kinds of paper writing at the end of this summer quarter rant

Due tomorrow: A 5-7 page article critiquing a magazine article on parenting. It must include 2 references to journal articles.
PROGRESS: Done YAY!

Due Friday: A 1000-1500 word (aprox. 3-5 pages) paper on California history.
PROGRESS: I haven't looked at the prompts yet

Due Tuesday: A 5 page paper on observing infants (3 of the pages are just data) at a daycare.
PROGRESS: I observed the infants

Due Next Friday: A 7+ page APA-style paper based on naturalistic observations at a science museum.
PROGRESS: Data is collected and I have 15 pages of data analysis from a computer statistical program (SPSS for Windows).
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:00 pm

UPDATE:

Subject: Re: Writing essays Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:59 pm

Update Number 2

Subject: Re: Writing essays Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:09 pm

Subject: Re: Writing essays Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:54 pm

Oh yeah...all essays are done Yay2

Here's all the work I have to do before I graduate.
History of California:
2 short papers (I forget the length) due 8/15
1000-1500 word paper due 8/29

Adolescent Development:
In lieu of a midterm or final the class has 5 multiple choice (25 question) quizzes each of which is worth 12.5 points. They are every Thursday starting 8/14. The best 4 count. The class also has 5 2-3 page papers each of which is worth 12.5 points. The best 4 count. They are due once a week starting next week. That's it for that class.

Psychobiology of Stress and Bodily Disease:
The class is 2 midterms, NO PAPERS!
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Subject: Re: Writing essays Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:47 am

I'm writing my final paper for my history of California class. This one is really boring. After every sentence I take like 30 minutes off rant

I'd like to figure out who invented essays and beat them half to death....and then all the way to death.
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