I shouldn't dwell over past papers so much

metaphor • 25 August 2013 at 9:00 PM

by reading professors' comments where I'd gone wrong and such. Because then I start thinking, "Wow, how did I miss that? That's so stupid of me. Why did the professor still give me an A/A- then? Why did they still find so much good in it?"

I don't know, maybe I'm just being critical.
But this semester, I'm going to make sure I'm extra careful with these things.😊

Anyone start school/classes yet?


And my comp papers were awwwwwwful lol.
That was several years ago, but still. I can't help blushing at how pretentious and strained they sound.

jennifer • 25 August 2013 at 9:34 PM

@metaphor
I feel the same way. 😋

There's this huge stash of school papers in my wardrobe. Sometimes, when I'm bored, I look through them and my reaction is: *HEADBANG* x50000
xD My gut keeps on saying "Burn them! Jennifer, burn them!" 😋
Although, RPing on Egg Cave has proved a significant difference.

metaphor • 25 August 2013 at 10:08 PM

@jennifer

Same here!

I just found a misplaced modifier in one of my essays. My professor either missed it or it isn't as big of an issue as it seems to me. Also, a small tense problem.

And this is the paper he wanted to use as an example (and I let him)

*buries head in shame*


I'm done now. I should have just kept his final comments page and then thrown away the rest. xD

Overall, though, I guess it's not a terrible paper. I made some good points, I will admit. But I could have found those little things had I been more careful. And I don't think it's all that articulately written, but meh. Life goes on.

jennifer • 26 August 2013 at 8:57 PM

@metaphor
I know how you feel 😋

Another event:
Once, I was absent and an assignment was given out. I ended up doing it on the last day because that's when I found out about it. And you know what, I was the only one who got a decent grade of 100 and everyone else got like 85s. XP I felt like rolling around on the ground because I didn't deserve it. When I looked over it, there were about 6 typos. XP

Derp.

You know, when I read books for English, Literature or ELA class (same thing, basically), one of my pet peeves is when there's a horrible cruddy author who uses 'I' every single sentence. Our instructor takes us as babies when we attend gifted school. xDD But most of the time, I end up not finishing the book because bad writing always kill me (which means my k-2 grade essays do as well). I also dislike some BEG RPers who do that.

rileytibbles • 26 August 2013 at 9:00 PM

@metaphor
ugh me every day.

I started back like 3 weeks ago. It's just lovely -_- I have SOOOOO much work this year it's crazy. I wish we were able to write more. Mostly just analyzing poetry and british lit

Comp was really just last year which is sad

metaphor • 26 August 2013 at 9:25 PM

@rileytibbles

My second comp class, I actually enjoyed and when I wrote crap, the professor graded it as such, and I appreciated that. It was a summer course and I was pretty lazy sometimes I will admit. Still got a B and some nice paper grades. And the professor even offered to write me a letter of recommendation, which I found weird since it wasn't as though I was a stellar student or anything. Anyway, I ended up taking her up on the offer when it came time to apply to universities, and she was more than willing to do it. Now she teaches comp at my current university and I see her sometimes.😊

My life is going to be writing pretty much haha.
My one English class, though, is pretty much just memorization, which I'm not too good with. Even the essays are just spit-back-out-what-you-memorized in nature. I am just going to really stay on top of the readings, because I really want to do well in this course. I did so well in this professor's World Lit. course, getting A's and rave comments on all three essays, so I feel as though getting anything less than a high B in this course would reflect badly on me--even though this professor is a very flexible and understanding guy.

@jennifer

I'm kind of particular about what I like to read too, so I know the feeling.😋

whereiscupcake • 27 August 2013 at 5:17 AM

@metaphor I can't read over my past papers or any old work I have taken home. I get too embarassed of myself because of how stupid most of the answers sound and the silly mistakes I made that should have been so obvious. It really makes me wonder how I get into/have gotten into top sets at all. I only feel confident in art, maths, history and science.

tender • 27 August 2013 at 11:15 AM

@metaphor
Hehe, I can't even read my old papers, my handwriting (is that the word?) used to be awfull. Now it's better, but it still can't be called beautiful. 😊
And all those stupid mistakes... Once on a test I writed that Luxembourg is in Germany. I knew it is not, I don't know how this happened. My friends still laugh on me.

metaphor • 27 August 2013 at 12:36 PM

@kisamari

Lol, on the contrary, I like when I read a past essay and--while it's definitely not without its faults--it's not as bad as I thought it was. I just read my gun control essay for a course last semester (not my chosen topic, it was what we were required to write about) and it's not terrible for someone who struggled so badly with it. I did get a good grade on it too (okay a perfect, but this particular professor wasn't an English instructor. Certainly if I had a Humanities Professor grade it, it would have been no more than a solid B, at best).

Then again, my writing process involved reading every sentence I wrote in the voice of Alexandra Cabot from L&O: SU. That helped.😋