When writing a paper, there are several things one just shouldn’t do. After four HUM papers and an entire semester of Reed, I think I’ve more or less figured it out.
1) If you’re a music lover, don’t play music while you’re writing your paper, unless it honestly helps you concentrate or you can block it [...]
Oh, Reed library, how I love you. The quietest library I have ever, ever seen; it’s almost creepy sometimes. But it’s useful to complete work, if I don’t have my computer. I’ve been attempting to write my essay for this Saturday for the past week and it’s not. working. Herodotus needs to take a short walk [...]
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Writing this essay has been the most painful thing I’ve ever done. I’m supposed to write 5 pages on why the Iliad ends with the burial of Hektor by Saturday. Five brilliant pages dripping in awesome. Hah! Fun stuff. This essay does not want to be written. I have about four paragraphs in single spaced, [...]
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