/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15285161]

>3000 page essay left till today
>started at 4 because had to finish another project first
>already 1300 words through
>haven’t even added in quotes yet
>graduate after this
We’re all gonna make it brehs

[Anonymous No.15285186]

>>15285161

waz it on OP?

[Anonymous No.15285187]

If your essay is double-spaced, then you're approximately 2,994 pages away from your goal. Not going to make it.

[Anonymous No.15285189]

>>15285161
hurray!

[Anonymous No.15285193]

>>15285161
Brings back memories

[Anonymous No.15285195]

>>15285161
>graduate after this

Oh, innocent anon, the real hell awaits you.

[Anonymous No.15285201]

>>15285161
>We’re all gonna make it brehs
no, i have been planning to kill myself next week

[Anonymous No.15285273]

>>15285201
I hope you make it bro!

[Anonymous No.15285287]

>>15285201
If you don't blow your brains out you're a pussy

[Anonymous No.15285294]

>tfw writing essay while listening to jewish rapper Drake

Yeah bro we all gonna make it.

[Anonymous No.15285302]

>>15285187
*3000 words
In sorry anon, this toil fried my brain lol
>>15285186
Some bullshit I don’t care about

[Anonymous No.15285615]

>>15285161
3000 page? You mean word.

And that’s nothing. Easy a fuck to bash out in a day.

[Anonymous No.15286054]

>at 2000
>ran out of things to say
Wat do?

[Anonymous No.15286146]

>>15286054
dip your ballsack in pen ink and wipe it all over the paper to bring attention to the patriarchal nature of the university system.

[Anonymous No.15286155]

>>15285161
>graduate after this
this is not something to be celebrating, if you knew what awaited you. best of luck

[Anonymous No.15286165]

>>15285195
This. After you graduate the world becomes a cold shell.

[Anonymous No.15286209]

>>15285161
Hopefully that 3000 word essay doesn't read like was written by a stoned baboon. I imagine you still need a passing grade.

Also, good luck on walking into an insane job market.

[Anonymous No.15286266]

>>15286054
It’s your final year and you don’t know still how to blather and waffle?

Further proof less people need to go to college

[Anonymous No.15286298]

>500 word essay due tomorrow
>Haven't even started
I'm so fucked bros

[Anonymous No.15286323]

>>15286155
>>15285195
I would appreciate an explanation.

[Anonymous No.15286369]

>>15286323
In less than a year's time you'll understand completely.

[Anonymous No.15286400]

>>15286323
Employment opportunities are slim, ESPECIALLY in this climate. Prepare to compete with an influx of people who have up to 10 years experience on you. This essay is childsplay in comparison to the existential dread of unemployed friendlessness.

[Anonymous No.15286423]

>>15286369
>>15286400
What if I got an actually useful degree

[Anonymous No.15286427]

>>15286323
i don't really have the words for it. you're going to feel it before the year ends. if i could put it in a phrase, just imagine a life without any further milestones or accomplishments to achieve.

years will go by without any memories. my last one is when i graduated. best wishes, my good friend

[Anonymous No.15286438]

>>15286298
>decided to sign up for 5 classes
>easy because its person to person
>covid 19
>2 essays, 5 pages each
>5 weeks worth of algebra
>fitness tests and I haven't practiced once
I've never been this behind on anything, I lose myself so easily.

[Anonymous No.15286440]

>>15285302
I was gonna say 3000 pages ain't an essay

[Anonymous No.15286467]

>>15286298
Come on man 500 words is easy.
What is it on?

>>15286400
>>15286369
I feel you guys on the job aspect. But we are all living in this shitty economy together.
Remember you learned a lot. And you succeeded in challenging yourself. Keep that flame alive.

[Anonymous No.15286471]

>>15286054
change complex adjectives in adverbs and simple adjectives, lengthen any descriptions, split conjunctions sentences into individual ones.

[Anonymous No.15286477]

>>15286054
Forget economic writing dude, starting adding that beautiful filler.

[Anonymous No.15286499]

>>15286054
do a rewrite from top to bottom

[Anonymous No.15286572]

>>15286054
Don't pad out the prose as some people suggest, it's much better to try to think of another point to make - even if it's kinda superfluous.

[Anonymous No.15287036]

I FINISHED IT JUST IN TIME BASED

[Anonymous No.15287083]

>>15285161
This blogpost reminded me of a blogpost of my own.
I had a friend in the same class as me who had 10000 word thesis' due, and in the final week, he decided to scrap everything he wrote and start from scratch. I wonder how he did, and where he is now...

[Anonymous No.15287091]

>"final reflection" essay due at noon tomorrow (today)
>Haven't started
>Professor didn't indicate at all how long it should be except to reference 5 works from the class
>Topic: "What is the value of (the study of) literature?"

[Anonymous No.15287172]

I went to an elite liberal arts college and had a classmate who was the laziest man I'd ever met in my life.

He spent 4 years rarely going to class, playing soccer, watching television, getting drunk, smoking weed, and doing drugs. He wrote all of his papers the night before they were due, often having to pull all-nighters.

I had an international economics class with him and the professor was handing back a paper he'd finished grading. Then he held up my slacker classmate's paper for everyone to see. "I don't even know what he was thinking with these margins!"

That paper had the widest margins I'd ever seen in my life.

[Anonymous No.15287190]

>>15286427
That's because you are (and were destined to be) a mediocrity.

[Anonymous No.15287195]

>>15287091
Things we read this year
>"Wit", a play about death
>Hard Times
>An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
>Anthem for Doomed Youth
>My Last Duchess
>The Unknown Citizen
>The Man With Enormous Wings
The sort of preliminary assignment (1 page 1.5 space write up) was on the same subject and those are worth 15 points. Scaling up I guess this should be 3 to 4 pages.
But I'm just not in a good mindset to write this amid all this pandemic shit. I'm not sure what's the value of literature besides some obvious statement, much less how I should develop it. I feel incapable of doing anything.

[Anonymous No.15287276]

>>15285161
Ive been slacking and now technology is failing me.
Why the fuck can't you find vcruntime140_1.dll you stupid bitch of a software. I keep reinstalling things and nothing is working.
I am also terrible at essays. I can't think of what to write to save my life. I just rotate between 4chan and a blank word processor for hours and hours.

[Anonymous No.15287553]

>submit all busywork late because coronavirus made my dog eat my homework
>pass anyway
>GPA doesn't even matter

[Anonymous No.15287562]

>>15286054
This>>15286572
Add points, if you can't add points add examples, if you can't add examples add evidence or interpretations of evidence, or qualify your argument

[Anonymous No.15288104]

>>15287276
If it helps set a timer for 5 minutes on your phone and in that time you have to write 100 words. Even if what you wrote is shit it’s better then nithing

[Anonymous No.15288157]

>>15286298
>Word limit is 500-1000 words
>Essay keeps crossing that word limit before I properly give my points
Fucking frustrating as shit

[Anonymous No.15288257]

>>15288157
You need to learn to write more efficiently.

[Anonymous No.15288261]

>>15285161
>graduate after this

now is the real shitstorm.

[Anonymous No.15288282]

We never got word limits, just page limits. Which result in many people writing in big font; I usually started with 12pt and eventually arrived at 10 or 9. Pretty sure professors hated me.

[Anonymous No.15288284]

>>15288157
Is that you, Fyodor?

[Anonymous No.15288360]

>>15288282
You need to learn to write more efficiently.

[Anonymous No.15289874]

>>15288257
>>15288360
You need to learn to write more efficiently.

[Anonymous No.15289922]

>>15288282
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[Anonymous No.15290067]

>>15285161
just be lucky you only have to write a paper
>music school
>end of semester
>everyone has to play part of a piece by Beethoven and write a paper about it
>ok no big deal
>have a performance with the teacher day before
>barely prepared, barely practiced
>she suddenly decides I will play the entire half hour piece instead of just one movement
>oh shit
>practice the literally rest of the day to get it sounding somewhat decent
>get home late at night
>realize the paper is actually due on the day of the performance
>concert is at 9 in the morning
>wake up at 5 and shit out a 2000 wordpaper
>go practice
>shit out a halfed ass performance

[Anonymous No.15290186]

>>15290067
>she suddenly decides I will play the entire half hour piece instead of just one movement
Jesus. How are they allowed to just expand the assignment like that?

[Anonymous No.15290225]

>>15287562
This. Read through what you have again and look for something to expand on. You should have a reason for every claim you, so go back and make sure all your arguments are supported.

[Anonymous No.15290232]

>>15288284
I've been saying for years theres only 4 posters on /lit/ You, me, butterfly, and fyodor

[Anonymous No.15290277]

>>15290186
the whole class was completely unorganized
That's why I didn't know about the paper

[Anonymous No.15290340]

>>15286572
Based

[Anonymous No.15290484]

>>15290067
based prof

[Anonymous No.15290531]

>>15286438
This shit has ruined all of my motivation to finish work and my professor's understandable disorganization doesn't help either. I used to walk to the library and sit in one of the quiet booths where my laptop was visible to people walking behind me so I wouldn't dick around but now I'm stuck inside. At least my professors are more lenient since I was doing so well before this started. Online classes weren't designed for 16 credit hours.

[Anonymous No.15290698]

>>15290531

Same my motivation has been shot to shit. Also getting really fed up with all of the repetitive tedious busy work this class I'm taking expects. For some reason profs think it's better to give you a million diff polls & mindless assignments worth a tiny amount of pts rather than a few assignments you can work on throughout semester. Getting real fed up with college in general, feels sometimes like it just teaches you how to wade through excessive bullshit chores, rather than encouraging you to think & learn on your own.

[Anonymous No.15290768]

>>15287195
Did you take any notes when reading or analyzing the books ?
That usually helps me writing a reflection report, I had to do one recently about my bachelor thesis. If you dont try to think why you chose this subject or study in the first place. If you didn't see value in literature you wouldn't have studied it.

[Anonymous No.15290819]

>>15285161
>3000 page essay
So, a multi-volume treatise?

[Anonymous No.15290829]

>>15286054
>ran out of things to say
Uh, oh. You didn't do enough research did you anon?

[Anonymous No.15290843]

>>15285161
>finish last quarter of semester online
>exams are slightly easier because they are online
>ace all of them and get a week off
>now working from home doing research with a prof, getting paid to learn Python
>doing an online course in the evening and lifting
>still enough time to read every night, almost done W&P
Feels good

[Anonymous No.15291123]

>>15290768
I got it done baby
Talked about how literature communicates experience and wisdom
Referred back to craft elements discussed in class for extra good boy points
I think things are looking up

[Anonymous No.15291150]

>tfw going home to grade term papers RIGHT NOW

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO I DON'T FUCKING WANT TO DO IT

I HATE ALL OF YOU

[Anonymous No.15291169]

>>15285201
Don't kill yourself anon. You have value. Take a break from the internet, maybe work out a little, do things you like. Don't throw away your life

[Anonymous No.15291180]

>>15290698
Yeah, there's a lot more work and less instruction, or thrown together assignments that don't make sense and are trashed the next day. Plus my college extended spring break so we missed a week without extending the semester.
It's frustrating because it's all obvious hoop-jumping now. I had a great lab class where we worked hands on outdoors but the college says the online one is worth the same as that. They graciously extended the deadline to drop without grade penalty but not the one to drop with refund. How kind. At least I wasn't one of the students suddenly taking livestock handling and management online.

[Anonymous No.15291207]

>>15285161
>14 volume philosophical masterpiece left till 15 minutes before I meet with my publisher.
>started 10 minutes ago because I was eating a PB&J
>already have 2 paragraphs
>haven't even added in page numbers
>retire after this

Were all gonna make it brehs.

[Anonymous No.15291397]

>>15291123
Attakid.

[Anonymous No.15291489]

>>15285161
Based. Got two essays due this week and an exam

[Anonymous No.15291530]

>5 word poem due next month
SHIITTT

[Anonymous No.15292038]

>>15291530
The Poem
By Anon

The poem is due today.

[Anonymous No.15292109]

>>15291530
the tiger is free
YES

[Anonymous No.15292236]

>>15285201
Incredibly based. Suicide is the logical response to being born.

[Anonymous No.15292243]

>>15291207
how many pages does each volume have to be? but also don't respond if you're still working on it

[Anonymous No.15292421]

>>15286400
My last final is Friday, start work Monday. I am blessed to be getting a job I know but man I'm not looking forward to it.
Any tips for not wanting to hang myself from my ceiling fan and not hate my life?

[Anonymous No.15292481]

>>15290843
Can we swap lives. I miss lifting

[Anonymous No.15292526]

>one word email reply due today

[Anonymous No.15292547]

>>15285201
I feel you anon. What painless methods have u found?

[Anonymous No.15292563]

>>15285161
Congrats anon. I just have one more exam before graduating and then I have all the time in the world to read. feels good

[Anonymous No.15292581]

>>15292563
What are you doing after grad? Becoming a NEET?

Also, graduating

[Anonymous No.15292604]

The virus completely cocked up my chemistry course so I'll have to do it this fall or next spring instead, but that's fine because I won't be applying for my uni program of choice til then. This summer I intend to work part-time, start exercising more, and read Proust.

[Anonymous No.15292680]

>>15285161
>Last exam tomorrow, too exhausted to study
>Won't graduate with a 65+ avg, meaning I'm going to get assblasted job seeking
>After, have to finish writing up my unfinished thesis project
>Don't have the funds to keep a roof over my head for the next 3.5 months
>Even if lockdown lifts, have to quit job due to burnout
>Diets gone to shit with isolation and stress put on 20lbs
God help me

[Anonymous No.15293041]

>>15290531
>Online classes weren't designed for 16 credit hours.
I have to take 15 credits next semester and I'm worried that the school I'm transferring to will be doing online during the fall still

[Anonymous No.15293209]

>>15292421
>Any tips for not wanting to hang myself from my ceiling fan and not hate my life?
Drink everyday.

[Anonymous No.15293476]

>>15292481
I feel your pain anon, stay strong.

[Anonymous No.15294585]

>>15292581
NEET for a year. Military after.

[Anonymous No.15294612]

>>15294585
>NEET for a year. Military after.
I think I shoulda done this maybe

[Anonymous No.15294639]

>>15291207
kek

[Anonymous No.15294666]

>>15294585
enlisting?

[Anonymous No.15294724]

>>15294612
It isn't exactly ideal. The GAP year will allow me to focus on things I've had on the back burner for some time now, which is nice, but I have little to no interest in the military. Unfortunately, my major of choice has little to no use without further schooling, which is just as unappealing. Even if it weren't, I dont have the finances to fund it.

>>15294666
OTS if at all possible. Something I'd need to look into. Hopefully they look at your last 60 credits, and not your entire GPA.

[Anonymous No.15294805]

I finished grad school in December 2018.

This has been the worst year and a half of my entire life.

[Anonymous No.15294865]

>>15285161
Honestly everything after graduating is just pure hell. Every day I grow closer to killing myself, the only thing holding me back is my gf and my need to consoom pointless books and media.

[Anonymous No.15295006]

>>15294865
>>15294805
same here. i graduated a year ago and the only upside has been that my family has been treating me nicer because of the coronavirus now.

[Anonymous No.15295296]

>haven't checked online classes since the lockdown, ~2 months now
>too dumb to write essays longer than 10 words anyway

[Anonymous No.15295419]

>huge gap in my resume after graduating
>can now blame it all on Cornavirus

[Anonymous No.15295700]

>>15285161
>4.0 GPA
>one final tomorrow and final essay for english
>no anxiety even though I haven't studied or prepared
who else /community college/ here?

[Anonymous No.15295712]

>>15294805
>>15294865
>>15295006
is this the fate that fucking awaits me? I graduate in less than two days. someone fucking tell me this isn't true

[Anonymous No.15295731]

>>15295712
Honestly, it happened to me because I figured things would work themselves out. My life had always gone smoothly up 'til then, so I figured I'd graduate and then find a good job. I took my time at first. Then things started to look more and more bleak.
All of it would have been averted if I'd lined up a good job while I was still in school, or if I'd gotten my shit together faster. So that's my advice, hit the job market hard and use every resource the school can offer you.

[Anonymous No.15295734]

>>15295731
what was your major?

[Anonymous No.15295736]

>>15295712
what's your degree

[Anonymous No.15295741]

>>15285201
>Not moving out onto a farm and cutting yourself off from mankind to achieve peace

[Anonymous No.15295746]

>>15295736
English major

[Anonymous No.15295793]

>>15285161
>hand in a 3000 word essay last week
>ended up being 5000 words because I'm an autist
>teacher asks me to see him
>tells me I am a philosopher in the making and to keep in touch

I've never felt so good about my writing in my life. Making it as we speak

[Anonymous No.15295814]

>>15285201
Don't do it anon. Whatever is troubling you is better to just accept it and embrace it. Thinking about suicide is healthy tho. It puts your life in perspective and in a way is your body saying is having enough and wants to remove you from pain. It just mean you have to give yourself some wins and work in the areas that are making you miserable.

[Anonymous No.15295841]

>>15285161
being a neet is better.

[Anonymous No.15295982]

>>15295746
>english major
>can barely write a 3000 word essay
uh huh. either way, you're fucked

[Anonymous No.15296075]

>>15286438
>>15290531
>>15293041
I'm taking 19 credits and it's not a problem. Just do the work it's that easy. If you can't keep your stuff in order without going in person and being told what to do you're just admitting that you're a mindless drone with no ambition and initiative and can't execute goals independent of authority. No one will want to hire you except for McDonald's

[Anonymous No.15296127]

>>15295734
Foreign Policy

[Anonymous No.15296135]

>>15292236
why haven’t you done it then?
are you not based?

[Anonymous No.15296164]

>>15287190
holy fucking projection

[Anonymous No.15296261]

>>15287190
the seethe in this post is insane

[Anonymous No.15296563]

>>15293041
It'll be better if they have more time to prepare- the sudden change and disorganization is the worst part. I've had a couple of online classes in the past and they were fine, but they were made to be online classes. Still, that much time doing work on the computer is too much for me and I don't learn well online. I'm planning on going half time if fall is online and increasing my work hours.
At least you can gauge how much is too much before the refund deadline next semester.