Memories!! Thanks for the Memories

Sigh, I'm reallly worried about my assignments here. No. Seriously. Not even joking. =(

So I'm blogging to get me to start typing. And then to start reading all the journals. There's really so much to do that I don't know where to start. I've come up with a step by step guide for myself on how to do this assignment.

Step 1 : Google 'How to write a Literature Review

Step 2 : Read journals

Step 3 : Open Microsoft Word and stare for at least 30 minutes.

Step 4 : Go down and find something to get your mind off the assignment.

Step 5 : Continue staring at the blank Microsoft Word page.

Step 6 : Chat with a few people and find out how to complete the assignment.

Step 7 : Continue chatting with the said person for nearly an hour (or more) on things not related to Literature Review.

By this time is should be somewhere near 3-4AM. This is where you'll start to get panicked.

Step 8 : Log in to Facebook and complain on your status update (Twitter would do fine too)

Step 9 : Your Farmville, Treasure Isle, Cafe World, Chronicles of Blood etc etc energy should have been refilled by now. Use it.

Step 10 : Panic stricken you finally gather yourself together and sit in front of the computer with nothing on the other tabs but journals.

Now this is where it gets hard. The following steps will determine whether you'll produce a good assignment, a sucky one, or none at all. You'll be confronted with just about 2 to 3 choices. The choice that you make will make it OR break it.

Step 11 : Pull yourself together and start stomping your fingers on the keyboard.

At this point, congratulations my friends, you've achieved a state of trance where you'll probably continue finishing the assignment. Simply put it, you're on a roll. At this point, it is advisable to NOT stop at any point (yes, this includes even if someone is sending you an IM on MSN, Skype etc etc, or if your energy bar is already refilled. Forget it, you should've done that on Step 9)

Step 12 : Congratulations! You've completed the assignment. Now, by this time it should be around 5-6AM. To reward yourself, you may now skip the following class, except for the class where you need to hand in the assignments. Should you want to skip that as well, make sure you've communicated your intention to your groupmates and settled the printing and hand in arrangements.

So that is how it's done. This, is not how it's done.

Step 11 : You've decided to ask for your friend's help. By help here it means you've asked for their assignment as 'sample'. This is a dangerous state. At a state of brain dead-ness you'll be very tempted to take a 'few' paragraphs from your friend's assignment. DON'T GIVE IN.

Step 12 : You've copied your friend. You hand in your assignment with guilt on your chest. You got the results. Turns out your friends didn't know what they were doing as well. You regretted your decision. TOO LATE.

But at least you HAD an assignment to hand in right? Under any circumstance, this should not happen.

Step 11 : You've tried your best. You think you're done for. De-motivated, you decide to lay your head down the pillow to rest your mind while you figure out what's next.

Step 12 : You woke up, late for class. Missed the deadline. Might as well be dead. Might want to ask from your lecturer an extension, which they would doubly give. YOU'RE SCREWED!

OK! So those are the few possibilities. Now that I've practiced typing endlessly on the keyboard, let's pray outcome 1 is for me. Most people will settle for outcome 2. But please, don't go for outcome 3.

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