Longest essay you've managed to write in 1 evening

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glitch409

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1,517 words(5 pages). I've had to do that once every two weeks this semester. :(

But, if we're counting by pages, I had a 12 pager with under 1000 words(graphs, lots and lots of graphs).

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Linkinfamous

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It's not an essay, but I just spent an allnighter coding and writing the report/preparing the presentation for a Modelling & Simulation project. (My computer refused to compile, and I pushed it off until the day before it was due.)

So first I had to spend a few hours fixing MSVC, which for some bizzarre reason was giving me some kind of corrupt file error whenever I tried to link anything, anywhere, which was 'fun' to figure out. I ended up making a virtual machine around 4am, and doing it all in there.

It had something to do with buffer underruns and lossy networks. I don't know...OMNeT++ spat out some nice looking graphs, so I assume it all worked out in the end.

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p858snake

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Well because of the English class i'm in we only have a minimum word limit and teachers a very surprised if you reach it any way our essay was on something like the differences between two t.v. shows the min. word count was something like 2000 and i got to 5000 before i finished it off.

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randomnut

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I once did 3 9,500 word essays over 2 straight nights. Thing was I was high on god knows what to stay awake that long while still going to school and being alert during the day. By the time I got the 3rd one, the essay was going off in so many unrelated tangents it looked like one of the chuckle brothers wrote it. Still, got 94%, 92% and 90% for them (Y)

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Narlzac85

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Thankfully, I'm not in a major where writing long papers is a common requirement. Usually, the really long ones are assigned in stages. Recently I wrote a 3 page 2000 word summary on the evolution of various wired and wireless communications in an hour and a half before the class in which it was due. Then I found out that the due date was pushed back a week, so I'm pretty thankful I didn't have to turn in that version.

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Linkinfamous

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Thankfully, I'm not in a major where writing long papers is a common requirement. Usually, the really long ones are assigned in stages. Recently I wrote a 3 page 2000 word summary on the evolution of various wired and wireless communications in an hour and a half before the class in which it was due. Then I found out that the due date was pushed back a week, so I'm pretty thankful I didn't have to turn in that version.

Yeah, picking a major where any paper you write is likely mostly equations, diagrams, and graphs with a few sentances intermixed to describe everything is great.

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kylejn

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I wrote an 11-ish page research paper in high school in one night, back in 2003. The research was all done, I just needed to write it all out.

Here's a picture of me when I was writing it. Those are all my notes taped up around the monitor.

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ninjamunky

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Wrote a 5 paragraph art history paper in like 4 hours once. We were supposed to go to a local museum and write on a piece of art there. I went on the website, picked 1 of 2 European pieces they had on the website, a Tintoretto piece. I then Googled it for better pictures, only found one. I wrote about it and got an A- Another girl in my class did everything perfectly and got a B. Yay for college.

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