tips to write college papers
begin with “buckle your seatbelts, motherfuckers, because in eight short pages i am going to learn u a thing that i only learned myself about two hours ago, so sit down, shut up, and enjoy the experience of my 4-am-redbull-induced-self-hatred-fuelled-writing-extravaganza”
erase when finished with the paper
I remember seeing this post when it was new, when I had a different tumblr account that I mostly used to vent about the shitty job i was working in between grad-school programs, and it stuck in my brain a little bit.
Seeing it cross my dash again years later, when teaching college students how to write papers is my full-time job, i think it apropos to put on my Authority Hat for a moment and tell y’all, in my role as an instructor of college English courses, where I think this post gets it wrong:
You don’t have to delete that opener afterwards, actually.
