Sheeple Magazine December Archive

Time To Crack Down

By Jamin Greensbury at 12/05/07 17:07

Let's start off with this. There is a thing in this world known as the dreaded Senior Research Paper. In case you don't know, you must support a thesis of your own design within the paper. I completed my rough draft, but for others, it didn't go so well. For instance, there was one student in my class. His name was Donald Humford, and he loved trying to be funny. Many things he just tried to spat out in class, but many of those things weren't funny at all. They were just stupid, just something that wasted more time. We all know people like that, don't we?

Anyway, Don didn't realize that for the Research Paper, he actually had to crack down and be serious. You must take the entire project seriously or else you risk the chance of not graduating high school. Don still wanted to make people laugh. He ranted on about God knows what in his paper. It nowhere near supported any part of his thesis. So when he got it back from our teacher, bad things began to happen. Our teacher told him straight up about how much he screwed up the project. She then simply told him he may not grduate if he didn't take it seriously, which is the point of the entire project. You need an interview within your paper, so he thought it would be funny to interview his mom. Bad choice. Our teacher told him that you can't do that and that he should have known not to do that. So Don begins to throw a bit of a temper tantrum.

No one person in the class knew what Don was doing until he started banging on the desk. We all thought he was going on with his stupid antics once again. But when he ripped up his paper, every soul knew what was up. By that point, we were all just snickering at him. He knew he had to be more serious, but he took the wrong road. Now Don is going on about how much he hates our teacher. That just makes it even more funny when he doesn't graduate. I think we all knew he was going to screw up badly. He didn't even take the time to do research with the time alloted to us during class. So take my advice, take the important things in your life with the most serious approach you can.