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    Valdosta State: Where Georgia meets Florida and neither knows where they are. 🌴🌲

    I'm a sophomore at Valdosta State University, and being this far south in Georgia is a weird, wonderful experience. We're literally 20 minutes from the Florida line. You get a mix of Georgia and Florida vibes that you don't find anywhere else. The campus is surprisingly nice. It's not as famous...
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    Can you use humor in a serious academic essay? Examples wanted

    I'm writing a paper on the psychology of procrastination (the irony is not lost on me), and I'm staring at this super dry draft. It's all "self-regulation failure" and "temporal discounting." Important stuff, but boring to read. I really want to start my introduction with something like...
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    Best practices for integrating quotes smoothly without breaking the flow.

    Ugh, quotes used to be the bane of my existance. My freshman year papers were just... quote, sentence. Quote, sentence. It was so choppy, like listening to a CD that skips. My TA literally wrote "this reads like a list" on one of my papers and I wanted to die. ☠️ But then a friend gave me a tip...
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    Is it okay to use wikipedia for an informative essay?

    I have a love-hate relationship with Wikipedia. I love it because it's the only place that explains complex topics in a way that doesn't make my brain melt. I hate it because every professor since 9th grade has acted like clicking on a Wikipedia link is basically academic satan. But like... be...
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