Is there anything more likely to induce a Boredom Coma than looking up the same 25 books over and over again on 27 different online library catalogs? I'm sure there is, but this assignment must rank in the top five. And to think, this is what I'm paying tuition for: to "help" my professor with her research by...er, doing it for her...and analyzing the results...and writing a two-page summary of that analysis, thinly disguised as a reflection of what *I've* learned, of course.

Isn't it enough that I've taken a class like this four times already? Shouldn't I get a free pass?

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