Scheduling doesn’t come naturally to me. I’ve spent months on a single eight-page paper, and I’ve written a term paper in the three hours before class (#regrets). As you can imagine, neither of those are a great approach; if you take too long to write a paper, it eats...

When I was in high school, I had the "five paragraph essay" formula drilled into my head. Every essay I wrote had an introduction and conclusion, and in between those two paragraphs were three major points to prove my thesis. I had that formula down pat — and then I...