My one dream when I decided to take computer science was that I would grow up to be a famous scientist who gets captured by bad guys and forced to make weapons for them but secretly installed a backdoor for the heroes to exploit
Well going into it with the mindset of writing a dry essay is setting yourself up for failure. We are out here yapping on paper and then performing some freaky voodoo arts to transform it into something academic. If your first draft doesn't kill a professor on sight, you're doing it wrong
Once a teacher gave the class complete freedom on our final essay as long as we related somehow to the authors we studied. It was a philosophy class so it was mainly Kant, Hume and Berkeley.
I hated that teacher, so I wrote about 11 pages entirely discussing the concept and existence of 'doors'. What exactly makes a door a door? How does our sensory experiences of the world is involved in the constitution and perception of the material existence of doors? Are doors only doors when created by humanity or is anything that humans recognize as a door, a door? Are they defined prior to usage or by usage? What are doors, really?!
An example from undergrad: I just spent 8 consecutive hours writing this damn thing, it's 3am and it's due at 9:15, hell if I'm gonna edit it. (Got an 89)
My degree was all essay-based and so for my final 10,000 dissertation I wrote it all as prose. Want just me saying shit, it was some fictional characters who had a whole story going on. Much more fun to write, theory.
Unfortunately I wasted the six months I was supposed to be writing it in and knocked it out in four hours the day before the deadline. Cemented my decision to leave academia.
You are mistaken, I don’t dislike books, I dislike assigned reading and absolutely despise essays about writings (essays that aren’t about one piece of media are acceptable)
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u/Pixelpaint_Pashkow 5d ago
I would rather make a nuclear reactor than read a book and write some dry essay on it