The backstory: It's the last period of the day and my class is taking its first test of the year.
Student X: Ms. M? Do we need like a thesis and stuff for the essay?
Me: They don't call it an essay for nothin'.
Translation: you will need a thesis and stuff.
As opposed to what, I'm wondering? Free association? Essay-as-mathematical-proof? Maybe one of those poems where you write one word vertically and other, related words out horizontally from each letter (which, coincidentally, is how I wrote my dissertation).
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