Thursday, September 21, 2006

sharpening teeth

A project groupmate uploaded her contribution to the essay's introduction. Half of it was plagiarised from a collection of a few articles. Thankfully I read those articles before, and so, identified them as being copied off somewhere. And then, I realised that if this is going to happen for the next 4500 words or so that the other group members are going to be contributing, there is no way I'm going to be able to keep track of the plagiarised bits, much less rewrite/rephrase everything for them. Don't people think anymore? If not for the grades of others, at least for their own grade?

It is exasperating, frustrating, depressing, and enough to drive me into another bout of turtlehood, but unfortunately I can't because there are still too many external demands on my time.

Turn up the voltage, fry the brains.