I have no idea how it came to this.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-05-07 05:44am

Suddenly I find myself at 02:37 writing a god-damned 10-page research paper on the CANDU nuclear reactor system. Did I mention that I have no god damned knowledge of nuclear reactors?
And if it were simply an expository essay, that would be no sweat, but I've got to fucking argue in favor of nuclear power over fossil fuels. This is just god damned great.
Oh, and I also have a term paper due tomorrow about whether or not religion is necessary for morality. I can't get past the first page on that one. Then I have another term paper due next week about something that I can't even remember right now.

I fucking hate this shit. Papers aren't a test of skill, they're just busywork. And they're keeping me too fucking busy. I should be playing Hearts of Iron right now.

Rant over.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-05-07 05:52am

Well, I could help. Help garantee an F, that is.

Nuclear Power better than fossil fuel? Yup. Until something goes wrong!

Religion needed for morality? Fuck no!

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-05-07 05:56am

Gaurantee an F? WAAHAHAHAHA

I'm hungry...

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-05-07 06:00am

Yeah, my problem with the religion paper is that I really don't feel like reiterating what's been said so many times before. If my prof felt that religion was necessary for morality, maybe I'd be a bit more motivated because of the chance to piss him off, but as it is, I'm not going to be telling him anything he doesn't already know.
Also, I don't see how I could possibly write 8 pages on it. Here's the only necessary argument:

premise the first: I am not religious.
premise the second: I am moral.
conclusion: Religion is not necessary for morality.

Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.

Gah. I suppose I'll just paraphrase the textbook's entire chapter on religion and morality.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-05-07 06:01am

Oh, and Frank, Supes: it's spelled guarantee.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2003-05-07 06:06am

Tomato, Tomaato, gaurantee, guarantee, vagina, virgina... It's all the same to me.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-05-07 06:15am

Bummer, I hope you can wrap it up in time, I've been in this boat before, it ain't pretty.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-05-07 06:20am

Robert Treder wrote:Oh, and Frank, Supes: it's spelled guarantee.

And spelinng is for the weak.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-05-07 06:22am

Bullshit is your ally.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-05-07 06:28am

Dalton wrote:Bullshit is your ally.

"... And a powerful ally it is."

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-05-07 06:30am

Dalton wrote:Bullshit is your ally.

And a powerful ally it is. Desperation creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Deceptive beings are we...

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-05-07 06:35am

Superman wrote:Tomato, Tomaato, gaurantee, guarantee, vagina, virgina... It's all the same to me.

If you were on the same continent and I wasn't so lazy and weak then I'd probably threaten you over butchering the English language so.

So... there.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-05-07 08:33am

Robert Treder wrote:
Dalton wrote:Bullshit is your ally.
And a powerful ally it is. Desperation creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Deceptive beings are we...

[yoda] dangerous is the path of bullshit....mmmm,yes. blinding it's power is, yes? mmmmm [/yoda]

Dirty Harry · Post by **Dirty Harry** » 2003-05-07 10:08am

Robert Treder wrote:
Dalton wrote:Bullshit is your ally.
And a powerful ally it is. Desperation creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Deceptive beings are we...

I should bloody know too, I've got a whole load of course work deadlines coming up and, per Harry standard procedure, I've left it all to the last second.

JodoForce · Post by **JodoForce** » 2003-05-07 10:17am

Robert Treder wrote:Yeah, my problem with the religion paper is that I really don't feel like reiterating what's been said so many times before. If my prof felt that religion was necessary for morality, maybe I'd be a bit more motivated because of the chance to piss him off, but as it is, I'm not going to be telling him anything he doesn't already know.
Also, I don't see how I could possibly write 8 pages on it. Here's the only necessary argument:

premise the first: I am not religious.
premise the second: I am moral.
conclusion: Religion is not necessary for morality.

Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.

Well you still need to prove that you really are not religious and really are moral. Now there's the makings of a 100-page philosophical argument

...

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-05-07 10:23am

I fucking agree, my next week is as follows

EXAM for biology
LAB FINAL for biology
RESEARcH PAPER/THE IOWA CAUCUS-Government
Powerpoit presentationon OCTOPUs ENRICHMENT for ecology
RESearCH PAPER/OCTOPUS ENRICHMENT for ecology
EXAM for government
REWRITE Field notebook for "profssors aesthetics" in ecology (at least 2 dozen pages)
FIELD WORK- Torrey Pines St. Park in San Diego, an hour commute
PROJECT PAPER- Aquarium Management
Busy Work- complete Aquarium management requirements

3 different Angels Baseball games, I paid good money for tickets and im not missing out >(
Mothers Day *shit*

so yea im awfully pissed off and I think ive got an ulcer, doctors appoitnment is scheduled somewhere within this mess.

edit: oh yeah, and the week afterwards I have four different finals. in those classes.

Darth Gojira · Post by **Darth Gojira** » 2003-05-07 11:15am

Superman wrote:Tomato, Tomaato, gaurantee, guarantee, vagina, virgina... It's all the same to me.

Said Dan Quayle

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-05-07 11:28am

If this is of any help

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-05-07 12:18pm

I hope you're good at bullshitting, like I am. When in doubt, I've bullshat my way through papers as long as six pages and gotten in the 90s.

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » 2003-05-07 04:18pm

You could start by explaining the dif between fossil and nuclear fuels. Nuclear being the decay of uranium producing radiation and fossil fuels being the burning of hydrocarbons.

Just out of curiosity how did you end up having to write a paper on something you know nothing about?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-07 04:22pm

This makes me glad I finished Finals three days early.

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » 2003-05-07 04:23pm

You could also argue in favor of alternate fuels not currently being used right now like methane. There's twice as much methane frozen on the ocean floor than there is all other fossil fuels put togather. Unfortunately, to make use of it you have to keep it under alot of pressure while your bringing it to the surface. Even if we could do it, methane seems to act as a sort of bond for the sea floor, so mining it could create under water landsides. Environmental problems just about anyway you go.

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » 2003-05-07 04:25pm

And why the hell do you have to argue in favor of nuclear energy?

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-05-07 06:09pm

Starscream wrote:And why the hell do you have to argue in favor of nuclear energy?

I have to argue one way or another, and I already got the teacher's signature on my planning report of a pro-nuclear thesis.

I got the rough draft approved today, and the paper is due tomorrow. All I have to do is compile a bunch of shit for my "research log", clean up my draft, add in two more sources, and I'm set.
Then it's on to two term papers for my philosophy class. Plus I have a meeting tonight at work about my possible promotion. Plus I have to put in a six-hour shift.

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » 2003-05-08 12:37am

Bummer dude.