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What's the latest anyone here has done a research paper/ long essay?

I did a 4 pager the morning of... I even changed some of my material, too. Still got a perfect score on it :D

I'll tell you later. :p

I wrote 6,300 words of free writing the day before it was due and finished it the day of during my free period in the morning.

6,300 words on the history of the internet bubble, a defense of globalization, and the economic development of the Soviet Union...

Yeah, morning of the due date...the assignment was given six weeks prior...

A group thesis/research yet unfinished. It's 30+ pages long.
And I am supposed to be doing a paper right now... but oh well, I'm too lazy to be bothered of it... :eek: :eek: :eek: Oh no! It's due later!!!!
*flogs himself to start working*

Oh, I'm off now...

I wrote 6,300 words of free writing the day before it was due and finished it the day of during my free period in the morning.

6,300 words on the history of the internet bubble, a defense of globalization, and the economic development of the Soviet Union...

...:eek:

i have to do a paper for wednessday and i haven't really started, i found one very usefull article, but i still need 4.

yknow, its funny that i mention this... im supposed to be working on an essay for a scholarship for civil engineering. its not due until april 23rd, but my father wants it done by today... :p

My last two pieces of work have been 3000 words each and I started them from scratch, with no research, 3 days before they were due in. Before that, I finished another 3000 word piece in 2 days (but with research) and a 2000 word piece in a day. My best ever was 1500 words without having done any research in 4 hours, after having spent the previous 3 days finishing a lab report and then drinking heavily the night before starting/handing it in.

I've yet to get below a 2.1 on essays and lab reports.

I wrote 6,300 words of free writing the day before it was due and finished it the day of during my free period in the morning.

6,300 words on the history of the internet bubble, a defense of globalization, and the economic development of the Soviet Union...

What grade did you get on the paper?

My last two pieces of work have been 3000 words each and I started them from scratch, with no research, 3 days before they were due in. Before that, I finished another 3000 word piece in 2 days (but with research) and a 2000 word piece in a day. My best ever was 1500 words without having done any research in 4 hours, after having spent the previous 3 days finishing a lab report and then drinking heavily the night before starting/handing it in.

I've yet to get below a 2.1 on essays and lab reports.

uh... is that a 2.1/6 or a 2.1/4 ?

I put off procrastination.

Eh? Not sure what you mean there. I mean 2.1 as in 60-69% score, British University system.

Eh? Not sure what you mean there. I mean 2.1 as in 60-69% score, British University system.

hmph. we've got this score stateside that includes 6 major topics (grammar, spelling, yatta yatta yatta, you get the point) that we're graded on, and we're assigned a score of 1 to 6 depending on how we did.

im not familiar with the British system, however.

What's the latest anyone here has done a research paper/ long essay?

I did a 4 pager the morning of... I even changed some of my material, too. Still got a perfect score on it :D

latest... hmmm...

there was a report due on the 22nd of August, 1988...

I had two months to work on it...

what year is it now...

makes it... almost 19 years late... do I win?

What's the latest anyone here has done a research paper/ long essay?

I did a 4 pager the morning of... I even changed some of my material, too. Still got a perfect score on it :D


You know, I was going to start this exact same thread last week, but I kept putting it off.

















:D

im not familiar with the British system, however.

Everything's marked and given a percentage score, but then it tends to be referred to by its degree grade equivalent. It goes: First (70+%), 2:1 (60<=x<70%), 2:2, 3rd, and probably fail or something after that.

I'm glad I did a technical course rather than one with wordy stuff to write :cool:

Ah, ok. Well, one of the British systems basically grades you into 5 categories - 1st, 2.1, 2.2, 3rd and fail, in order of how good you are. Originally, the 1st grade was reserved for literally whoever was first, or at least a very select group i.e. the elite. A 2.1 was considered a superior student group, a 2.2 the sort of average, a 3rd was a bit shit and...well, fail means fail anywhere really. However, the onset of shitloads of universities, including polytechnics and such, meant that the system had to be partially standardised. Now it's just 70%+ is a 1st, 60-69% = 2.1, 50-59% = 2.2 and 40-49% is a 3rd. There's other systems e.g. pass, honours and distinction, but that one's fairly widespread.

Ah, ok. Well, one of the British systems basically grades you into 5 categories - 1st, 2.1, 2.2, 3rd and fail, in order of how good you are. Originally, the 1st grade was reserved for literally whoever was first, or at least a very select group i.e. the elite. A 2.1 was considered a superior student group, a 2.2 the sort of average, a 3rd was a bit shit and...well, fail means fail anywhere really. However, the onset of shitloads of universities, including polytechnics and such, meant that the system had to be partially standardised. Now it's just 70%+ is a 1st, 60-69% = 2.1, 50-59% = 2.2 and 40-49% is a 3rd. There's other systems e.g. pass, honours and distinction, but that one's fairly widespread.

those percentiles look low, but that's just me.

those percentiles look low, but that's just me.
You've a different grading system, that's all. In reality, it's bloody hard to get 60%, much less 70 or above. There's a good deal of foreign students in UK universities, I'm sure they'd also inform you of this.

You've a different grading system, that's all. In reality, it's bloody hard to get 60%, much less 70 or above. There's a good deal of foreign students in UK universities, I'm sure they'd also inform you of this.

yeah, thats just what i was thinking

I remember wanting to name my nation 'Procrastination' but I believe it was taken. :(

try Procrasti-nation or Procrasti Nation...

try Procrasti-nation or Procrasti Nation...

Meh ... I already have > 2000 posts and I'm two years old. I don't want to be a newb again.

What's the latest anyone here has done a research paper/ long essay?

I did a 4 pager the morning of... I even changed some of my material, too. Still got a perfect score on it :D
Still working on the same stupid paper for a course I took last summer. I actually wrote some paragraphs yesterday - the first change in it since last November.

How's that for procrastination?

Still working on the same stupid paper for a course I took last summer. I actually wrote some paragraphs yesterday - the first change in it since last November.

How's that for procrastination?

ask JuNii... :D

I've got some biology coursework to get done by Monday, should be 2000-3000 more words to do. I only just finished taking my results today, but at least I've got all weekend to do it.

By that way, just a question for uni students; how much larger is the workload in university than 6th form (or Highschool I guess in America)? Is it shock or do they lower you in gently?

ask JuNii... :D
Oh - didn't see that.
(And I didn't mention the other paper that I worked on, in 2002 it was, I believe? I can't remember. I don't really count that one, though, because I won't be handing it in after all. Even after all the effort I put into it.)

By that way, just a question for uni students; how much larger is the workload in university than 6th form (or Highschool I guess in America)? Is it shock or do they lower you in gently?

I found University easier... There was, obviously, more work to do at times, and it was harder, but it was also more interesting (and the hours were better ;) ).

First year was quite straightforward though, mostly.

By that way, just a question for uni students; how much larger is the workload in university than 6th form (or Highschool I guess in America)? Is it shock or do they lower you in gently?
Depends entirely upon what course you're doing and where you're doing it, I'd imagine. All the biology-based degrees where I'm at, for example, had some multichoice exams in the first year and I had very little in the way of coursework. Even in my second year now, I've had the equivalent of one hard homework a week, two essays and two lab reports, although the exams are much harder. The final year is where all the work piles up with an entire project to design, implement and write up.

Conversely, I know people who have >2000 word essays almost every week on engineering and medics who've had to make a poster for their second year coursework. Realistically, uni's like less work but far more concentrated.

Still working on the same stupid paper for a course I took last summer. I actually wrote some paragraphs yesterday - the first change in it since last November.

How's that for procrastination?

Ha!

I still haven't started mine!

Oh - didn't see that.
(And I didn't mention the other paper that I worked on, in 2002 it was, I believe? I can't remember. I don't really count that one, though, because I won't be handing it in after all. Even after all the effort I put into it.)

I plan on turning mine in... either in my Last Will or when certain events occure. :D

Ha!

I still haven't started mine!

I plan on turning mine in... either in my Last Will or when certain events occure. :D
Problem is: I need to hand this stupid paper in in order to be able to apply for my finals. Which are probably going to happen sooner than I'd like'em to.

Problem is: I need to hand this stupid paper in in order to be able to apply for my finals. Which are probably going to happen sooner than I'd like'em to.

oh... Good luck with that. my "paper" is already a waste of time, so my turning it in would be more of an inside joke than anything else... ;)

oh... Good luck with that. my "paper" is already a waste of time, so my turning it in would be more of an inside joke than anything else... ;)
Thanks. I guess I really need it.

What's the latest anyone here has done a research paper/ long essay?

I did a 4 pager the morning of... I even changed some of my material, too. Still got a perfect score on it :D

I don't know. Probably back in December.

Last semester I typed up a 6 page essay on alternative fuels in 5 hours even though I had about a month to work on it and I got an A.

I had a job as the night operator at an answering service while I was at University. The paper was due at 9:00 am, and I started it on a laptop at work at 3:30. It was supposed to be a 10 page research paper on classical Greek art, and I produced an 8 page paper of pure conjecture (I didn't even have a bibliography because I didn't cite anything) covering bronze-age Mycenean fortificational architecture.

I got an A.

Last year in May we had the rough draft, and then the final, of our research paper for Advanced Placement World History, due. We theoretically been working since January, but the night before the draft was due, I had yet to get a word typed. So I all nighted, and in the morning had a fifteen page paper, on which I recieved the C-...and then two weeks later, the night before the final was due, I all nighted editing it. My mom caught me, and was really pissed, and was like, oh no, this is terrible...but it wasn't. I turned in my fully edited nineteen page paper on The Development of British Tanks from 1916-1943, and recieved an A- on the final. So I was pleased, and my mom was put in her place. Otherwise she is cool, though.

I was working on a paper about US involvement in Vietnam untill 3am one morning. After I finished, I had to write my final essay for musical theatre, saying what I'd take out of my experience in My Fair Lady, and I was so screwed up from Vietnam, the drama thing was ridiculous. I started crying anc confessing how drama was an escape from my home life, and everybody else at school thinks I'm crazy, and loving something is like stepping backwards off a cliff, not knowing how high up you are, or if anyone will catch you. My acting teacher read it, and was like, "Uhhhhh...are you on something?"

I was working on a paper about US involvement in Vietnam untill 3am one morning. After I finished, I had to write my final essay for musical theatre, saying what I'd take out of my experience in My Fair Lady, and I was so screwed up from Vietnam, the drama thing was ridiculous. I started crying anc confessing how drama was an escape from my home life, and everybody else at school thinks I'm crazy, and loving something is like stepping backwards off a cliff, not knowing how high up you are, or if anyone will catch you. My acting teacher read it, and was like, "Uhhhhh...are you on something?"

:D

Well, last week, I pulled an all nighter to write a 15 page script the night before/day it was due and pulled an all nighter to animate 2 minutes worth of material the night before/day it was due.

i didnt mention this, but i wrote the essay in my OP in about an hour and a half at 7:30am...

it was due @ 9:15am

Um.. I wrote a 10 page essay on Judaism day before yesterday in about 2.5 hours.