The Dedicated Student's Guide to Earning Scholarly Distinction in Five Easy Steps

Let us suppose that, after much contemplation, you give yourself the choice between writing a brief comment about intraiconic text in picturebooks or about the role of the implied reader in coloring books.

If you want to sound halfway sane, you pick the intraiconic text.

However, if you pick the intraiconic text, you are likely to be preempted and have all your grand theoretical questions answered by the TA in an unrelated message thread before you’ve even asked.

Therefore, in the interest of preserving your originality and not wasting time constructing an elaborate argument to be rendered pointless before fruition:

Always pick the coloring books.

The Dedicated Student's Guide to Earning Scholarly Distinction in Five Easy Steps

Let us suppose that, after much contemplation, you give yourself the choice between writing a brief comment about intraiconic text in picturebooks or about the role of the implied reader in coloring books.

If you want to sound halfway sane, you pick the intraiconic text.

However, if you pick the intraiconic text, you are likely to be preempted and have all your grand theoretical questions answered by the TA in an unrelated message thread before you’ve even asked.

Therefore, in the interest of preserving your originality and not wasting time constructing an elaborate argument to be rendered pointless before fruition:

Always pick the coloring books.