yeah, definitely finals season

[bedlamsbard]

Uh, I need an opinion. Would it be...bad...if I e-mailed my prof two days before a rough draft deadline and said that I need to change my paper topic and I won't have a rough draft because I have no fucking idea how to write the topic I said I was doing? Because there is literally not enough textual evidence for me to put this argument together, and that's even if I had an argument, which I don't. And I shouldn't have tried to do something which I don't like (new historicism) for a major paper, because I don't know how to construct it and it's hurting me badly and also have I mentioned how I don't have an argument? Or evidence? At all? And I thought I would have it up until I actually started writing the paper and I really, really don't.

(I do have an alternate topic, which I'm pretty sure I can make a fifteen-page paper out of, but I can't have a fifteen page paper by Tuesday.)

Comments

[sara]

Well, that is the sort of email that makes professors facepalm, but yeah, the sooner you open the "it ain't working" conversation, the better.

Alternately, your prof might have some thoughts about an approach that would make it work.

[bedlamsbard]

I suspect I would be hesitating less if I hadn't done the exact same thing several months ago about my honors thesis. (Yes. Same prof. *headdesk* I mean, on the bright side, every other paper I've ever turned into him has been on time.)

[sara]

Hey, at least you will spellcheck whatever you send. I have a friend who got a 40-page unspellchecked honors thesis yesterday. ;> Her weekend went bye-bye.

[bedlamsbard]

Erk. (To be fair, I never spellcheck because I'm usually writing about things that spellcheck freaks out about, but still: erk.)

[lady_songsmith]

my spellchecker learned LOTS of interesting words when I was in college. Lots and lots of them.