I hated term papers when I was a kid because I just think I didn't understand the exercise.

My teacher would say something like, all right, you got to write a 10 page paper there,

and it has to have 10 sources, and I want you to make that thing about Julius Caesar.

So then I got to go and do some research to find out what the facts are, but I think

of my brain, I was like, well, it's like a book report, right?

I just repeat back to you what the inarguable facts about Julius Caesar are.

And then that's that.

It never occurred to me that Julius Caesar was alive like 2,000 plus years ago.

We might not know everything for sure.

There might be a few questions to ask or controversies to consider.

No, I just thought I was doing a book report.

Like the formula for this would be that I go and I get an encyclopedia and I turn to Julius Caesar.

That'd be in the J's.

And then I just read it and take some notes on the facts.

And then I guess to have a second source, I just find a different brand of encyclopedia

and also go to volume J and then just read their Julius Caesar article.

And then I guess paraphrase the two articles.

So it kind of sounds like I said it just a little bit dumber

than how the encyclopedia says it.

And then I guess for the bibliography, I just write number one encyclopedia page 211.

Number two other encyclopedia page 130.

And then I'm probably only going to actually write about five pages of actual content.

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