[Aelia Jusa]

Originally posted by Nanobyte: One thing I cannot understand: how do teachers figure their students can write a reasonable, four-paragraph essay (including intro and conclusion) in a maximum of thirty minutes? I don't mean to bash on teachers, as I'm a fun-loving guy and all, but we had to write an essay on Romanticism in English last week. Hardly anyone finished, even their first paragraph, within the time constraint, but what our teacher said was this, "I'll grade you on what you have." I had five bloomin' examples in my first paragraph (from four different sources), and she gave me a 70! I'm not that bad of a writer, I made a 93 on the research paper last year, but the entire semester this year I've made no higher than an 83.. I sincerely wish she would spend more time revisiting the basics, and spend less on US history, since this is really hurting my GPA. Just blowing off some steam

Heh I have an ancient history exam on Thursday - it's three essays of 800-1000 words each in two hours, or 40 minutes an essay. Lucky I write fast