The Term Paper (aka research paper)

aomame
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:23:32 +0000

I…can count on one hand the number of research papers i’ve written.


The huge freshman ‘I-Search’ project, which was like 6-8 pages at the end of the year. I’m pretty sure mine was a huge clustermess about the effects of social networking on teens. They prefaced it with a huge, “you’re going to have to do this all the time in high school, so get used to it!”
A brief paper on nuclear medicine which was…a 3 page paper. It didn’t even have to be in paper form and I got a 100 on it like what.
My NHD paper, which didn’t even have to be a paper, which was shorter than the god-awful I-Search. Much more enjoyable to research, too.


I don’t really get the emphasis on research papers, then. But I did lol at the thought that people who can’t write 75+ page papers can’t cut it at anything but a state flagship.