God help me, but I just wrote a paper on major database management systems that was complete crap. I know it’s crap. I just can’t bring myself to care. I pinched out a loaf of mediocrity. With my name on it. I still don’t care.

I don’t know which is more awful, the fact that I deliberately wrote a paper so gravid with apathy that the whitespace around the words appears leaden gray, or the strong possibility that I’ll get a good mark for it anyhow, meaning that the degree I’m earning is worth that much less in terms of actual effort.