A contest 2: a voting

All told there were ten [twelve now] entries.  There should have been more, but someone (named dave zacuto) didn't enter in time.

The entries are:

1. An untitled effort from green gabbro (actually written by googletalk)
2. Und Zeit by ogged
3. Time and Measurement Through History by a Michael
4. An untitled effort by Thane Plambeck
5. Essay this! by Anti-Anti Kamala
6. Technology for the Modern Era by Bitch PhD
7. An untitled effort by Adam Kotsko
8. Yet another untitled essay by Anne
9. No title here either by sundre
10. This, too, lacks a title by the mysterious c. Note that this starts with a non-approved sentence.  Bitch PhD suggests that this might merit extra credit, as an imitation of a student not following directions.
11. A new entry!  Here,by Dave.
12. Here is another tardy entry, by jenniebee.  She will be docked a full grade.

Vote in the comments.  I was going to use one of those blogpoll-type polls for voting, but it fux0red up the style of the page something fierce.  It's true that this way will require manual counting by me, but that will just make it easier to ensure that the one I want to win does.

Comments

[dave zacuto]

Damn!

[Iron Lungfish]

I vote c.

[Rahel]

I vote for Adam Kotsko. It's the numbering that did it for me.

[Anne]

Although I amuse myself greatly by creating an entry focused on literature rather than time, I think Adam's entry kicks butt.

[Sam]

I vote for Anne's essay.

[yami]

I vote for Und Zeit, 'cause I've actually done the "fill your word count with poetry" bit...

[des von bladet]

I vote for yami (green gabbro).

[ben wolfson]

des von bladet, I am in love with you. Run off with me to Abroad and teach me to write like you.

[bitchphd]

Obviously I vote for ME.

[bitchphd]

Ben, you missed an entry: http://blogs.confusticate.com/jenniebee/archives/002567.html

I know that it's late. And she left the trackback at my place instead of yours. But isn't it just like a student to NOT FOLLOW DIRECTIONS?

Throw it up there, c'mon.

[ben wolfson]

Note that Michael's entry cheekily included a mention of using clocks to determine latitude and longitude. I'm splitting my vote between his and the mysterious Anti-Anti Kamala's entries.

[JM]

Kotsko's numbering does put him over the top...but jennibee's is also really terrible.

[ben wolfson]

Far be it from me to seek to influence the voting process in any way, but there are two ways to look at the numbering:

• The pretentious way—Kotsko is saying, like Hegel and Sellars, my thought is so important that people will want a convenient way to refer to particular paragraphs, so I am thoughtfully providing my future exegetes with a numbering system."
• The lack of parallelism way, in which Kotsko's essay displays an organizational strategy uncharacteristic of the bad student essay he's supposed to be writing.

Most people seem to be ignoring the second possibility in citing the numbers as a good thing.

[ogged]

I vote for anti-K-K, mainly on the strength of his/her inspired third paragraph.

[jenniebee]

Yes, I'm sorry, it's late. I just read about it on Bitch this am, which I know is no excuse, as I should have been attending class regularly, but whatcanyoudo?

[LDH]

I vote yami (green gabbro)...

[bitchphd]

Yes, I think that Kotsko's essay is WAY too organized for bad student writing. Although the numbering is not uncharacteristic of students who don't even understand what an essay is supposed to look like, and instead think they are supposed to be making a bulleted list.

[Michael]

I just sent my entry in. (on time, ironically) I doubt my entry mirrors anyone else's, but just in case, I hearby disclaim I have not yet read any other entries.

[Adam Kotsko]

I vote for myself.

Apologia for the numbering: I was trying to write as someone who had completely internalized the five-paragraph essay format and could write nothing else. Actually, I probably should have just left out the numbering, so this is no longer an apologia.

Honorable mention to Anti-Anti-Kamala for "the meaning of pie."

[ben wolfson]

Do you have any response to the charge of sexism, Adam?

[c]

How was I expected to see the words "either sentence two or four" when there were so many other words to look at and many of them were much more interesting words than "either sentence two or four." This is unfair I worked hard and you are just mean.

I vote Thane his essay really made me think.

[JL]

My vote's for Anne: sheer literary brilliance.

[Kathleen]

I vote for 3.

[bitchphd]

Can I change my vote to C? On the grounds that not only the essay, but C's entire self presentation, so perfectly communicates "Bad Student" that I am beginning to feel very, very afraid?

[ben wolfson]

You can, bitch, you can.