Is two days enough to write a 5 page paper?

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TheMidnightJudge
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10 Feb 2008, 4:21 pm

I wouldn't mind so much if I didn't have this intensive music concert and another 2-3 page paper and a poster and some weird project where I have to make boxes and it wasn't 4:15 on Sunday.
It's not like I just blew off everything wasting the weekend. I had to practice intensively for this concert, and after it I tried to start the math thing and I just kept running into problems and confusion, because every damned thing in mathematics depends on some other concept, so to understand one thing I have to look up two other things, one of which I have to look up other concepts in math to understand. Today I had church and I ended up falling asleep afterwards and then I lost my cellphone.
It's not gonna get done. It's just not gonna happen. I might be able to bs the english paper and do the box thing, but the paper will be complete bs because I don't have time to properly close-read The Great Gatsby
If I try and do the math paper I'll spin around in confusion for several hours, if not for trouble understanding the concepts, than for trouble understanding how math translates to an essay.

I dunno man, part of me doesn't want to care and wants to get lost in the fulfillment of classical music. Part of me wants to get self righteous and angry. A small part of me tells me I can't do that and right now I'm in neutral.



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10 Feb 2008, 4:29 pm

Buckle down, and get off this forum. :wink:

I once confused the due date of a paper by a week...I wrote an nine-page paper in two days (wrote it one day, edited the other).


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10 Feb 2008, 4:51 pm

Well, 2 days is plenty of time for me... but for you? Only you can answear that.
I once sad down at 7pm Wednesday, wrote 13 pages, and then handed it in 9am Thursday. I got a B+ :lol:


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10 Feb 2008, 6:15 pm

Go to your campus library and ask about tutoring service for math and English. They're probably direct you to where you can get help for your homework :)


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10 Feb 2008, 6:42 pm

I definitely think you can do a five page paper in two days. It may not be an A-grade paper, but at least it will be done and accomplished.

Sit down, look at how many hours in the next two days that you have to work on it, minus hours for class/other homework/sleep/eating, and figure out how much time you will spend on research, how much on writing, and how much on editing.

You can do it for sure.

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10 Feb 2008, 6:57 pm

I'm sorry I was unclear.
When it started I had two days. Now I have about 5 hours. All the stuff I described is why two days left me with like 5 hours to do all this.



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10 Feb 2008, 6:58 pm

Yeah I do need to get off these forums.
I just finished the box thing and Gatsby is going decent.