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Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:56 am
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That is awesome! I wonder if anybody actually does it, ever? My mother has a typewriter up in a closet...I should borrow it and take it to a Starbucks...maybe I can dress like a woman from Mad Men... : )McBean wrote:Renzo wrote:Who gives a page limit instead of a word limit? Is your professor living in the age of typewriters and cave drawings?
Who knows what he was thinking? I just have to tell myself I hit all the issues, made a novel argument and salvaged a B+. Funny you should mention typewriters though; one of my other professors sent around the exam instructions early and they include instructions for those using typewriters.
this.Renzo wrote:Who gives a page limit instead of a word limit? Is your professor living in the age of typewriters and cave drawings?
Apparently one of our professors gave both, but they conflicted with each other. The students were warned of "severe punishment" should they go over the limit, so most of them stuck to the less generous word limit. Those who dared to use the page limit, however, were not punished.Renzo wrote:Who gives a page limit instead of a word limit? Is your professor living in the age of typewriters and cave drawings?
Everyone I know who got a C was found days later in a dumpster wearing a crown of moldy banana peels and muttering something about font choice ruining their legal career...McBean wrote:kurla88 wrote:...How long was your paper that font size makes a 3.5 page difference? Whoa.
10 pages. 35% percent difference. 35% more analysis that could have been added. Ugh. It's just one class right? I figure I'll get a B+ at least so it is not the end of the day.
Side note: Who the hell are the people that get C's? Every class of 80 only has like 3 of them. Do these people just not give a crap? Are they dumb? Bad day? Bad luck? If you have gotten one, please explain. In other words, provide me with reassurance that it will not happen to me. Please.
Look man, Just because I am dumb doesn't mean I don't have the same capacity to do well, obviously I belong here just as much as you do seeing as how we were both accepted to the same school.McBean wrote:Side note: Who the hell are the people that get C's? Every class of 80 only has like 3 of them. Do these people just not give a crap? Are they dumb? Bad day? Bad luck? If you have gotten one, please explain. In other words, provide me with reassurance that it will not happen to me. Please.
lol at least it didn't take me 20+ years to learn something everyone else found out at age 10 when they were fiddling around with fonts to increase their page lengths for middle school English.McBean wrote:Actually, I think that's exactly what it means.Leeroy Jenkins wrote: dumb doesn't mean I don't have the same capacity to do well
I actually agree with McBean.Leeroy Jenkins wrote:lol at least it didn't take me 20+ years to learn something everyone else found out at age 10 when they were fiddling around with fonts to increase their page lengths for middle school English.McBean wrote:Actually, I think that's exactly what it means.Leeroy Jenkins wrote: dumb doesn't mean I don't have the same capacity to do well
Since elementary school. Civilized places have good schools, bucko.McBean wrote:Leeroy Jenkins wrote:lol at least it didn't take me 20+ years to learn something everyone else found out at age 10 when they were fiddling around with fonts to increase their page lengths for middle school English.McBean wrote:Actually, I think that's exactly what it means.Leeroy Jenkins wrote: dumb doesn't mean I don't have the same capacity to do well
It's called erring on the side of caution. Wait, you were writing middle school English papers at age 10?
Obviously not middle school papers, jeez. They weren't advanced or anything, but we had computers and we had papers and weekly oral presentations (and no, not like show and tell, more like write a report about a news article and then do a speech in front of the class, so harsh for 5th grade >_<)McBean wrote:MC Southstar wrote:Since elementary school. Civilized places have good schools, bucko.McBean wrote:
It's called erring on the side of caution. Wait, you were writing middle school English papers at age 10?
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But why were you writing middle school English papers in elementary school?
Because I was in middle school at age 10? Why are you asking such pointless questions?McBean wrote: It's called erring on the side of caution. Wait, you were writing middle school English papers at age 10?
This is similar to my civpro exam coming up. It is closed book, no notes, etc. However, we can bring in hte federal rules, tabbed, written on/in, etc. AND can even add pages to the book with our notes. WHAT IS THE POINT? just have it open note.apper123 wrote:had a page limit exam today... he said we could make the text as small as we wanted as long as it was still legible
still managed to drop an unreal amount of words on it as a result
why even have the page limit? just let me pump the text up and double space it so you can read it. i wouldnt have typed any more than i did (and i was told by a couple profs last semester i write the longest exams in the section by far which, trust me, i do not think is a brag).