So Mara had to write a ten page research paper for her intro zoology class. A lab class no less. The requirements for the paper were more stringent than any of the papers I had to write as an english minor my first time through school! Very odd. Specifically for a lab class.
So I was thinking that this was like, for me, having to write a research paper in physics or calculus. Despite all of the homework/labwork, I'd have to write a ten page paper. Grrr. So, of course, I'd pick something quantum mechanical, thus negating the need to write the paper. How so? Well, I could pick from one or more of the following convient excuses:
1. I did write the paper, but just as I finished it, it gained enough energy to tunnel through my desk, the floor, the Earth and right into a convenient parallel dimension.
2. Of course I wrote it, professor, you just can't both hold it and see it at the same time.
3. What do you mean? My paper's sitting on the desk right in front of you. It's just that when you look at it, you trap it into one state or another. Currently it must be trapped in the state where it looks just like your desk.
4. *Hands in ten pages of random jibberish* Give it time, professor. Probablility says that the letters will form into the correct sentences eventually, you just have to be patient.
5. The ink wouldn't stick to the paper because gravity and quantum mechanics don't mix.
6. There's ten pages in this box, professor. You just have to open it to determine whether or not there's anything written on those pages.
He, he. You get the idea.
So I was thinking that this was like, for me, having to write a research paper in physics or calculus. Despite all of the homework/labwork, I'd have to write a ten page paper. Grrr. So, of course, I'd pick something quantum mechanical, thus negating the need to write the paper. How so? Well, I could pick from one or more of the following convient excuses:
1. I did write the paper, but just as I finished it, it gained enough energy to tunnel through my desk, the floor, the Earth and right into a convenient parallel dimension.
2. Of course I wrote it, professor, you just can't both hold it and see it at the same time.
3. What do you mean? My paper's sitting on the desk right in front of you. It's just that when you look at it, you trap it into one state or another. Currently it must be trapped in the state where it looks just like your desk.
4. *Hands in ten pages of random jibberish* Give it time, professor. Probablility says that the letters will form into the correct sentences eventually, you just have to be patient.
5. The ink wouldn't stick to the paper because gravity and quantum mechanics don't mix.
6. There's ten pages in this box, professor. You just have to open it to determine whether or not there's anything written on those pages.
He, he. You get the idea.
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while i was working today, a bunch of people came in and bought very expensive paper. i guess there's a requirement on the cotton content in the paper on which one's thesis is printed. how ludacris.