NBD

In the ninth episode of the “Darts and Letters” podcast, the host, Gordon Katic, interviews a person who writes papers for students across a variety of academic disciplines, for a variety of programs. The anonymous guest reflects on his ability to meet his clients’ expectations by professing “a natural curiosity for subjects” and an aptitude for “pattern recognition” that can appreciate and imitate a discipline’s “jargon”.

I’m against academic dishonesty, and I’m far too interested in writing my own paper and far too poor to pay someone else to do the work. That being said, this interviewee is a surprising source of motivation… Procrastinating, like a regular student, he says, he manages to turn in lengthy assignments in a short time. It has cheered me to think of this “Bill Faulkner” reading a Master’s degree thesis or two in Canadian history, and sitting down and producing a 120-page document in a week like it was no big deal.