I think people need to make an effort in order to succeed in anything.

I'm going to contradict my last post and take away general laziness for the whole sum of plagiarism. Because, today I was overwhelmed. And judging from the state of mind I was in for the entire day, I can see why students would plagiarize something if they got back from a day like I had, and had a paper due the next day that they unexpectedly didn't have time to complete.

I don't have any big assignments due tomorrow, and it's a good thing too...

My boyfriend from Maine is on vacation from school this week, so he came down by bus to come see me. He had a big term paper due on Friday, but got an extension for it. So he emailed it by Sunday, but his school has a specific rule that their paper needs to be handed in both in a hard copy and electronically. His professor told him the email wasn't good enough, and that he needed to have the paper handed in by midnight in his mailbox...or some catastrophic thing would happen to his grade. So we drove up to Maine and back in about 7 hours...and it was exhausting. The whole way up, I was dwelling over how my job interview went last week, how the hell I'm going to write an essay for them, and if I'll even get called back for a second interview.

There's always this voice nagging at the back of my brain saying, "Hey Megan, you have to get a job.....youuu haaaaveee to get a joooooobbbbbb." It's a friggin' ghost. And I can't shake it.

I had one interview, and that took (and still is taking) so much time and energy out of me. I can only imagine I'll have to go through at least 10 more before I finally land one.

Anyway, my worries could have easily been, "Shit, I need to get back to my room and write this paper. Dammit, I'm not going to have the time or energy to even think about coherent things if I get back to the dorm at 11:30 p.m....gaahhh." Hence, therefore, plagiarism shows up on the radar and, bing, a felony has been committed.

I wish, I wish, I wish there were less to worry about.