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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It wouldn't be a problem for a kid with such eloquence to write any paper.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why is it so hard to believe? It's a recurring theme in the comics and something all too real for a ton of students.

Calvin is eloquent, intelligent, and wildly imaginative, but struggles with things like deadlines and homework.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s a recurring theme

And one of the most delightful. Who hasn't been told at some point, "if you put half as much effort into [task] as you did into [avoidance strategy] you'd have been fine"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Finally internalizing how much nicer it is put in a little bit of effort in advance rather than stressful scrambling after procrastinating was literally life changing. I don’t think I even realized how much subconscious stress I was under during the procrastination. But my kids are just like “shut up dad”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thats easy, just have shit short term memory and you'll feel no stress until you're reminded about it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

because homeword is boring. give him something which he enjoys doing and see the magic :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I tend to read most of it as a thinly veiled vent for Watterson himself.

Grinding on the dailies and square formats when what he really wanted to be working on is splashing out in the Sunday pages.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately for Calvin, an eloquent and well thought out speech about the death of craftsmanship and ruthless mechanical efficiency wasn't on topic to the assignment about what you did over the summer (or whatever other assignment it is)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

2 is really not enough to make any paper worth writing though

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

He's 6 years old, shat kind of paper would she be asking them to write??

Edit: I'm leaving it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Karlvin Marx explaining one of the dimensions of the alienated labour.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I thought it was Howard Roark

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Is he wrong though?