I once ended up writing what was practically a 1,000 word review just because someone asked me for recommendations for PS 3 games. It was on Resonance Of Fate.
Which reminds me, I have a college essay due this week that I don't really care about... I should get to work on it sometime soon, I guess...
If speeches count, I was very pleased when our informative speech assignment could be about anything other than religion and politics. I proudly stood in front of my college class and talked about Super Sentai for five minutes.
^^I kind of wrote a paper on that, or at least part of it was. That wasn't really what it was about at all. And the paper was being written about a month late. I wound up getting a D in the class, I think. That wasn't a good semester.
On a positive note, I wrote a fun (and slightly unsettling, I guess) research paper this past spring on the modern-day frontiers between suburbia and wilderness in America, complete with an 11-page appendix of helpful images, mostly screencapped from Google Maps. That was awesome. Got an A- on that.
Flora Segunda | World Made By Hand | Monster Blood Tattoo ^You should read these series.I wrote a 30-page independent study paper on Boys' Love and gender perceptions in male versus female-aimed works.
It's now serving as a writing sample for the one college I didn't have to send a Spanish-language sample to.
Heaven doesn't want me, and Hell's afraid I'll take over.I just finished writing a This I Believe essay, where you pick one belief statement and give an event from your life that supports it or caused you to have that belief. My belief was "learning is about more than just schooling" and I talked about discovering This Very Wiki.
"War doesn't prove who's right, only who's left." "Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future."I remember one essay I wrote on Ulysses in college, about the possibilities of transferring the stream-of-consciousness technique to a film adaptation. (I was really into Joyce at the time) Actually turned out pretty good. I wonder what I did it with it...
no one will notice that I changed thisIt was. To me and the prof, at least.
The works I analyzed were (in order from "girliest" to "manliest") Gakuen Heaven, Earthian, FAKE, the Chapter Black arc of Yu Yu Hakusho (my OTP for the win!) and Legend Of The Blue Wolves.
My main point was that in the "girlier" works, male privilege was the be-all and end-all and was automatically bestowed on those with male bodies no matter how they behaved, while the "manlier" stuff posited problems with the male gender role and having a gay or bisexual identity. Pretty much. Oh, yeah, and it was a continuum and not really a separate category for each, except for the extreme examples (Gakuen Heaven and Legend Of The Blue Wolves).
edited 24th Oct '10 7:00:51 PM by SirPsychoSexy
Heaven doesn't want me, and Hell's afraid I'll take over.My paper is about how polyandry offers protection against male infanticide. I went on about infanticide for a while, enjoying myself, until I remembered that the important part was the polyandry. Still, I get to title my (popular science-style) paper "Sleeping Around for the Sake of the Kids."
Biophilic bookworm by day, gentleman adventurer by night.

I'm doing a paper on social networking sites and privacy. I got one page of four done last night, and am about to finish my 4th page right now.
Essays fly by so much faster when the topic is something you actually are passionate about, as opposed to historical philosophers or 2-century-old books that I can barely read (in my case that is; apologies to people who like that sort of stuff).
It also helps that my professor is lax on citation styles as long as I make some sort of citation for all of my sources; I don't have to worry about losing a large fraction of my points because I didn't cite in exact APA format
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edited 18th Oct '10 2:35:02 AM by TsundeRay
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