Had a 3 page paper I had to write, ended up being just over 14 pages, 16 after the footnotes were added.

I had to completely rewrite it because I knew my prof wasn’t going to read that paper, but when I turned in the assignment I turned in both of them.

Just did exactly that in a recently accepted paper. A comments from a reviewer made us notice that a certain phenomenon was greatly exaggerated by low-res theoretical calculations and that it actually was barely noticeable. I just added “weakly” to the paragraph describing that phenomenon. Won’t delete shit.

“Murder your darlings” as they say in writing.

I keep particularly well-researched and well-worded paragraphs in a LaTeX document on Overleaf. It’s kind of like the research version of skinny jeans. I know I’ll never wear them again, but it hurts too much to throw them out.

… addicted to the shindig
Chop Top, he says I’m gonna win big
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservation

Is that some of that “unconditional love” I see there?

Reminds me of me and my date at prom.

Average toddler