the verdict:

[fox]

supervisor:  "this is a very good essay, actually.  ... of course, it said all the things i wanted to hear.  but, no, it's really very good."


my question is this:  why, why, WHY are the essays at which i work conscientiously and over a period of time, and with which i am usually fairly pleased when they're done, always weak, while the ones i leave until after the last minute and then make up in a frenzy of must-write-something-NOW, and which i customarily think are crap, get all kinds of praises?

rar.

still, though.  not that i'm done running around frantically, but as i said to my friends at lunch, from here out i'll just have to rush about to get places, rather than to do things.  which, in the circumstances, will be positively relaxing.

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[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

When I was taking my first journalism class in college, I found that if I worked really hard on a story (cracked open the AP style book, dilligently researched sources, etc), I would receive a failing grade. If I made the entire story up, including interviews, I would receive an A.

It was a bit discouraging, to say the least. In hindsight, though, I would have been a shoe-in for a reporting position at the NY Times ;)