“I can’t believe it,” she said when she received her F. “I was so proud of myself for having written a college paper.”
Such a sentiment is inconsistent with boredom. If you look at Prof. X's analysis of the paper, you see she had not acquired the skills to write a research paper. I repeat, she either needs to get remedial help and re-take the class or give up.
Needless to say, the paper she turned in was a discussion of the pros and cons of gun control. At least, I think that was the subject. There was no real thesis. The paper often lapsed into incoherence. Sentences broke off in the middle of a line and resumed on the next one, with the first word inappropriately capitalized. There was some wavering between single- and double-spacing. She did quote articles, but cited only databases—where were the journals themselves? The paper was also too short: a bad job, and such small portions.[her quote, above, was here...]
She most certainly hadn’t written a college paper, and she was a long way from doing so. Yet there she was in college, paying lots of tuition for the privilege of pursuing a degree, which she very likely needed to advance at work. Her deficits don’t make her a bad person or even unintelligent or unusual. Many people cannot write a research paper, and few have to do so in their workaday life. But let’s be frank: she wasn’t working at anything resembling a college level.
She did exactly what he told her, in detail, not to do. She looked him in the eye and said she was proud of herself.
She wasn’t just bored, she was attempting to play him. Or, maybe she was just rebellious.
You think she did it because she was uneducated. If that was the case, no one could ever get educated, LOL.