How To Get By In School


11/2/97

Huge history report. I’m talking huge. We’re talking a footnote and bibliography huge.

Well, my teacher didn’t let us know that we were to include all page numbers with every source we sited. One of my unfortunate classmates sheepishly raised his hand.

"Well, you see, I already got 20 quotes, and I didn’t write down any of the page numbers."

My teacher, although sympathetic, was not too accommodating to my classmate. He explained that my classmate would have to spend all that time finding each quote and noting the page number.

"But…you have learned an important lesson from all of this, haven’t you?"

"Yeah," Joanna leaned over to me and said, "to procrastinate."

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