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DFW

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5. Had I only known
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 02:41 PM
Sep 2019

And there I was, working my ass off in college, writing all those damned papers on my own.

On the other hand, as many of my papers had to be written in Spanish, Swedish and Russian, I'm not sure how heavily I would have wanted to rely on someone in Kenya in the first place.

Fun note: at the final exam for my course in Medieval Spanish (don't ask), the professor, who had given the whole course in Spanish, said we could write the exam in English or Spanish. Since he had spoken only Spanish in class, it would be instantly clear whether or not we had understood him. He said he used to say he didn't care in what language the students wrote their final exam until one year, when he was handed a final exam written in Classical Arabic. He said he had learned his lesson, and specified either English or Spanish from then on.

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