So, want to know what's going on this time?
Well, let's start with the basics.
I don't like writing research papers. I don't like group projects. I absolutely hate writing research papers as a group project. Generally, I find these things to be fruitless and stupid, or, at the least, misguided. I am beginning to realize, however, that these things are unavoidable as a business major. Having that understanding, that I cannot go around it, that I have to go through it,
This time, my expectations have not been met. I have yet to do that convincing for the current paper/project I'm working on. I just can't do it. As I'm typing this, I should be doing research, (or even better, I should be sleeping because the research should have been done yesterday) but I just don't care enough about it to focus. It's the project itself that's putting me off. I can't really explain it to you without picking through every detail of the assignment, but you can trust me when I say that it's very much a stupid thing to have us do.
And there we have it. That's the whole problem.
I cannot stop myself from trying to poke holes in these projects. There's always so much stupid to work through before you even get to the real task at hand. So many unnecessary tasks, purposely vague instructions, pretentiously inflated length requirements, and offensive assumptions of previously acquired knowledge. All this and I additionally have the great fortune of running into teachers who enjoy giving you the exact amount of figurative rope you'll need to hang yourself. I feel like they don't even deserve to see my best work, because they came half-stepping to ask for it. Maybe I'll have an easier time telling myself these assignment are worth doing when these teachers decide to give me an assignment that is actually worth my time. Maybe I'll do better when I don't have to lie to myself to get it done.
You can have 50 points for reading this, but I'm mad, so no extras.
JOSH, THE SHERM
