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TsundeRay HOORAY! from Santa Clara, California Since: May, 2009
HOORAY!
#1: Oct 18th 2010 at 2:31:49 AM

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.

edited 18th Oct '10 2:35:02 AM by TsundeRay

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Clarste One Winged Egret Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
One Winged Egret
#2: Oct 18th 2010 at 3:52:05 AM

Yup, this is awesome.

IthilionTheBrave from Georgia, USA Since: Mar, 2010
#3: Oct 18th 2010 at 4:05:01 AM

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...

Electivirus Since: Jan, 2001
#4: Oct 18th 2010 at 4:12:01 AM

I once wrote an entire paper on EV training. :3

Drakyndra Her with the hat from Somewhere Since: Jan, 2001
Her with the hat
#5: Oct 18th 2010 at 6:37:54 AM

Hey, I once wrote a paper about Anonymous's Scientology Protests. A large part was about the social implications of memes.

I liked that paper.

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piccorotto Pretty sure it's aliens from outer space, probably Since: Aug, 2009
Pretty sure it's aliens
#6: Oct 18th 2010 at 12:56:23 PM

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.

frog753 Non-Action Guy from CT and/or MA Since: Jul, 2009
#7: Oct 18th 2010 at 1:14:21 PM

^^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.

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SirPsychoSexy The Sensui Fan from Texas Panhandle Since: Jan, 2010
The Sensui Fan
#8: Oct 18th 2010 at 2:28:54 PM

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.

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Galeros Slay foes with bow and arrow Since: Jan, 2001
Slay foes with bow and arrow
#9: Oct 18th 2010 at 3:40:15 PM

Even if it is a subject I like, I can not write a paper on it.

Marioguy128 Geomancer from various galaxies Since: Jan, 2010
Geomancer
#10: Oct 18th 2010 at 3:59:56 PM

OH YES! I find it much easier to write a paper if something like this happens.

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Drakyndra Her with the hat from Somewhere Since: Jan, 2001
Her with the hat
#11: Oct 19th 2010 at 12:06:42 AM

gender perceptions in male versus female-aimed works.

That actually sounds really interesting.

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Clarste One Winged Egret Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
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#12: Oct 19th 2010 at 12:14:26 AM

Lots of things sound interesting.

OnTheOtherHandle Since: Feb, 2010
#13: Oct 24th 2010 at 3:41:42 PM

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."
ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
frozen in time
#14: Oct 24th 2010 at 4:05:40 PM

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...

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SirPsychoSexy The Sensui Fan from Texas Panhandle Since: Jan, 2010
The Sensui Fan
#15: Oct 24th 2010 at 6:59:15 PM

That actually sounds really interesting.

It 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

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Jace Atypical masculinity. from the Great White North Since: Oct, 2010
Atypical masculinity.
#16: Oct 24th 2010 at 8:25:08 PM

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.
KarlzBelena from hell Since: Feb, 2010
#17: Oct 24th 2010 at 9:46:34 PM

You bunch of lucky bastards.

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