Inverting a Cliche

Not for me. "Make me a sandwich." "Let me save my game first." Nice and short.

 

Word Maximums are Satan's little footsoldiers. *grumble* I fucking hate them.

 

I started writing on a Macintosh, so I relied on Chicago in the days before MS Word. And double spacing. With lots of small paragraphs and double-spaced double-carriage-returns.

But for wordcounts, I have to give props to one of my philosophy professors. He mentioned that he wanted a paper with 3,000 words minimum, and then linked to an online dictionary with the definition of the word "minimum." He knew the kind of stunts we students like to pull.

 

I have the same problem, I never read any of the books in English last year, never really watched any of the movies and was still able to wake up at 6 in the morning, right an essay for an hour or two, shower and dump the thing on the teachers desk. That is until my teacher and exam marker caught on right before I handed in my IP. Nearly failed, the fuckers.

 

If what Orintil says is true, I agree with Xiao. A professor would have to be pretty dumb to not notice the old "Enlarge the size of the font" count. I wouldn't have gotten away with that in high school, let alone now that I'm in uni.

 

In Oulu biochemistry, it's rare the profs even show up. That's what student assistants are for.
I'm amazed you go to a uni in which you've actually met the profs.

 

I still sometimes get away with it in Uni, and I did it regularly in high school. Professors really are that dumb...or else they're smarter than we are and assign pagecounts with the expectation that we'll use 14 point boldface fonts, then let us think we're awfully clever getting away with it.

 

I don't know how those people got Ph. D's to teach their professions. What horrible, horrible universities are you going to?

 

You write tech manuals, don't you?

 

He does, however, write foreign policy.

 

They had professors too, didn't they?

 

It's simply the understandable result of free education. They're paid shit regardless of their education (basic supply and demand...) so why should they bother? A burger flipper makes roughly the same salary. It's purely pathetic. I met a doctor (a DOCTOR) that worked at Hessburger (Finnish version of McDonalds) as a cashier because it happened to be the only job available when she graduated and now she can't afford to find work elsewhere. Over-edu is as much a problem as under-edu on the grand scale of things.