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October 05, 2005

Ad Nauseam

So, like, teachers/professors are always warning people not to lengthen their papers artificially with silliness like widening the margins or choosing large fonts.

Do you think they check to see if people shorten their papers by shrinking the margins?

Not that I'd do that, mind you. That would be the height of nerdiness.

Just, umm, wondering.

Posted by Jennifer at October 5, 2005 09:44 PM | TrackBack
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If you only do it by a 1/10th or 2, you'll be fine. Who doesn't do that?

I mean, Let's run her out of town on a rail!!!!

Posted by: sis at October 5, 2005 11:35 PM

Were you guys on the quizbowl team too?

Posted by: shank at October 6, 2005 07:39 AM

"Widening the margins and choosing large fonts"? Yeesh, when I was in college our papers were hand-written or, if you had the dough, type-written. Choosing fonts...

Posted by: Tuning Spork at October 8, 2005 05:32 PM

hmm. i was always a big nerd, but never ever had to shrink a margin. i usually scraped and scraped for big words so i could get to the required length.

i don't have so much trouble with length anymore.

Posted by: sarahk at October 10, 2005 07:44 AM


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