School Problems : Lack of papers
By gelomon
@gelomon (286)
Philippines
June 2, 2012 1:04pm CST
hello there! I am excited to go back to school to learn new things that will shape my future. But this thing is a very common problem of a student. No paper, when your professor gives a quiz an required a paper, sometimes i do run out of paper and only ask one from my seat mate, but i think this is the problem of students too, how about you? Have you experienced being out of paper too? How do you deal with it?
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12 responses
@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
2 Jun 12
yes it happened to me when i was still a student. when i was a student, i was more concerned of student activities, rather than academic things. that's why i seldom had papers for quizes and taking notes. but i was able to graduate and passed all my subjects. luckily, i had classmates who were generous.
@China5Flower (225)
• Guangzhou, China
4 Jun 12
So did I. When I was a student, I got used to borrowing papars from others because I don't want to use my own, frugally, right? And luckily my friends all lent me papers, because I looked so anxious and poor. I still remember when I was in primary 5, one girl took big beautiful clean papers everyday for me and I drew ladies on it. She knowed I love drawing and she liked my works. And what happened in exchange was that I like her copy my homework. The teacher never found it because she never forgot to write her own name. Haha! Colorful childhood with beautiful memories! I don't know where this girl is now and I am not in my hometown for long. Has she got married? Have children ?Poor or wealthiy? I don't know. I just miss her today seeing all your words. I hope she will be clever enough to teach her children not to be cheated papers by people like me , ahhaha!
@Flashpointer (784)
• Philippines
8 Jun 12
Yes I am also encountered that kind of situation when I am being out of paper. So when the times like this, I have to excuse to my professor to go to the rest room for a wanna bee stomach ache if most of my class mates always chit chat to others while he or she is still lecturing in front of us. Because I am sure that the professor will have a surprise quiz after that. Instead of going to the rest room, I have to run through the hall way to find school supplies shop inside the campus for a minimum of 2 minutes or so. If a professor can't agreed with some excuse, I tend to tear out blank papers in my reference books I brought and I use it as my paper for the quiz and explain a smart move later when the professor finds out I use different paper.
@megamatt (14290)
• United States
3 Jun 12
Once or twice, this has happened to me and I have to admit, it is a rather demeaning thing to be caught without any paper. It just reminded me to be prepared for anything, to have plenty of paper, pens, pencils, and plenty of everything that I would really need to rather have. I had to ask someone to borrow a piece of paper during the rare time this happened and thankfully they took pity on me.
Of course, most of the time, I had been the person where people asked me. Paper is the only thing that I don't normally have a problem with giving out but sometimes it got dangerously close to becoming a habit. Where people tended to ask me for paper just a little bit too much right out there. Just got to be prepared, because sometimes you can rely on no one but yourself.
@lady1993 (27221)
• Philippines
4 Jun 12
yeah, that is a big problem in our school. I kind f pity the person who always has paper.. in our first year my friend always gave others paper, and i still brought paper too.. But in 2nd and 3rd year, i got lazy, and just asked from my otehr friend who's always complete with everything.. 
and even my friend doesn't give paper that freely anymore..
and even my friend doesn't give paper that freely anymore..
@ardoy0731 (7308)
• Philippines
3 Jun 12
It also happened to me when I was in school. I used to borrow or asked paper to my classmates but sometimes I used to insert some papers in my books so I still have some spare to get if my pad paper was over.
@effinmuffin (191)
• Philippines
3 Jun 12
i kept on experiencing that during school days. for me, it became a habit for me even though i have papers i don't usually use it. :) my friends always provide me papers even though i don't ask for it. But too be also fair i give them papers when they ran out. :) i am just so very lucky to have my friends in the same class..
@srjac0902 (1169)
• Italy
2 Jun 12
If one is really excited on any matter, usually he is attentive not to forget anything and will have an eagle's eye to seek for a chance. But it may even happen that we may either forget the paper or the pen to write and even lose the best chance. When there is an advantage no one will like to spare a pen or a sheet of paper for us. By mistake we learn.
@jeanneyvonne (5500)
• Philippines
3 Jun 12
Actually, I am usually the one who people without paper turn to because they know that i have a stock of them i all sizes. I guess I was kinda like a girl scout in that period because I do;t wanna be called unpreaped on things like not having paper. I guess I kinda didn't mind unless a particular person borrows too much paper, as in they don't bother to brig any in the course of the subject. In that situation, I look like fool who distributes free paper because everybody knows that I have a steady stock. I did learned my lesson and people didn't budge me for it, times when you need to show even fellow classmates some tough love.
@Bhebelen14 (5194)
• Philippines
2 Jun 12
Yes, experienced to ask for a piece of paper from my seat mates and also ask him for a pen, in return I needed let them to copied to my answers. hahaha. I remembered one of my seat mates copied my name and forgot to change it, and it ended up our teacher asked us to stand up and explained what happened. After a few explanations were happy that our teacher forgiven us and gave a new set of exam. From that moment I never ask for a piece of paper or allowed anyone to copy my paper I do my best to sell our vegetables to earn money and buy paper and pen.
