Ok, "too good for this world," is a bit of a maudlin flourish, but you feel me, right? Part of what I learned in college is to believe that my ideas were strong enough to stand up past Jerkoff Hands(TM) It was only a partial process then, that the internet has helped me complete, and it would have seemed like a blessing to the shy, blush-prone undergraduate that I was then if my instructor had been so fiercely anti-JOH, but I learned to persevere past them, which I think has greater real-life implications.
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Excellent Game of Thrones poster.
I often wished to include things like "If you plagiarize any of your papers, partial or whole, I will KNOW...and I will CUT you. Caveat. Fear me."
But I didn't. So I think those are made of awesome.
What is the temperature at which silicon burns?
I often wished to include things like "If you plagiarize any of your papers, partial or whole, I will KNOW...and I will CUT you. Caveat. Fear me."
I don't include the "I will CUT you" part, but I do include the rest of it. Because some of them do plagiarize.
It always amazes me that people (a) don't realize how easy it is to find out if something's plagiarized and/or (b) don't see anything wrong with it.
don't see anything wrong with it.
I wonder if some of that is the "nothing on the Internet is private" thing.
I've had several students hand in things that were copied directly from the textbook we use in class.
Wow, Hil. That's ballsy.