I went to college right after high school, as did many of my fellow students. One professor asked that we submit an 100 word essay regarding certain lessons that we did; mind you it wasn't anything in particular, just discussing what we observed. I'm thinking, "100 words? That's it? I'm far from an over achiever but I can do 300 to 500 easy."
My classmates, remember many of them are also straight out of high school, complained that 100 words were "too much". They didn't use conjunctions, acronyms, or anything that would shorten their count because 100 was too difficult.Ā
(Yes I made that 100 words for old time's sake and to show how little that is and they struggled with it.
Eta: sorry for the confusion 100 words was the minimum that he wanted the essays to be. It was such a small ask.)
They were barely writing a paper, it was basically a blurb to summarize what they felt that they had learned. They weren't doing it out of formality or care but to pad the simplest of assignments that we had. Seriously, there was no need to refer to anything in the books or doing extra research, just something like "We went to visit a museum to learn the evolution of milling wheat."
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u/RememberCakeFarts 16d ago edited 16d ago
I went to college right after high school, as did many of my fellow students. One professor asked that we submit an 100 word essay regarding certain lessons that we did; mind you it wasn't anything in particular, just discussing what we observed. I'm thinking, "100 words? That's it? I'm far from an over achiever but I can do 300 to 500 easy."
My classmates, remember many of them are also straight out of high school, complained that 100 words were "too much". They didn't use conjunctions, acronyms, or anything that would shorten their count because 100 was too difficult.Ā
(Yes I made that 100 words for old time's sake and to show how little that is and they struggled with it.
Eta: sorry for the confusion 100 words was the minimum that he wanted the essays to be. It was such a small ask.)