If only we would put as much effort into actually doing our schoolwork.

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Yesterday, Thursday September 19, 2008, my English class grew much closer. Upon getting to class, we discovered that not one of us had done the reading that was expected from us by our professor. We started to panic, as we had been threatened with a test if we did not seem to know the material. So, we started to make plans as to how we would handle the situation. We looked to the girl in the class, M, who always seems to be well-informed about the readings. She had not read it yet, but was in the process. We designated her Discussion Leader, and our plan was to take whatever she said and build on it with our own personal arguments. After we had this plan set up, W entered the class, and we discovered that he HAD read the assignment. He was a little angry, because he said that the only reason he had read the assignment was because he knew that everyone else would. So much for assumptions. We put M on the bench, and designated W as leader. The guest professor enters the room seven minutes late. She asked us if our professor had gone over the movie we had watched during the previous lesson. One student said that we had only had two minutes after the movie and therefore no time to discuss it. Immediately, a new, unspoken plan was formed. For the next hour, we bombarded her with our ideas from the movie and asked her opinion, until we only had three minutes left in the class and no time to discuss the assignment. We all grinned at each other, wiped the sweat from our foreheads, and headed home, or to our next class.