MS Word 2007 is sexy.
I think I got a small boner from looking at my own resume and vac work report. It's not because they're good (in fact, they're quite shit; my resume is full of repetition and trivial information such as the fact that I like to throw rocks at passing cars and so forth, I claim that it's in the name of geology to do so), but it's because I wrote it in MS Word 2007. And saved as PDF form (anything in PDF looks sexy). MS Word 2007 is so awesome. I don't know why, but it makes anything I write looks smart. I can write a cooking instruction for mac and cheese, and it's still going to look incredibly decent and professional. I guess that's they key word I was looking for: professional.
I've written a lot of essays, reports and technical manual (yes, a technical manual for operating a software that was particularly bad so they told us to write a damn manual for it) in my 4+ years of uni, and I've had my share of incredibly bad reports. I did this report back in my first year of uni where I practically bitched about how hot it was on the field that day: "It was a very hot day and a result we only took measurements where there were shades". The marker's response to that passage was: "Nobody cares"
Sure, suppose that if I add the fact that I spent most of my time in the field looking at girls on the running track, I'd probably get a harsher response, and it would be funnier too. But nevertheless, I tuned my report writing skills. Instead of bitching about how hot it was, I learned to be more subtle: "It was a very hot day and the instrument couldn't cope with the heat so we had to stop taking measurements halfway through the control points".
In fact, in my later years of uni, I learned to insert my own personal stories into my report, such as: "It was a very hot day and I had to sit in the sun to mope about how she wouldn't talk to me ever again because I accidentally called her a byatch or some shit".
Where was I? Ah, I can't remember. This entry was rather pointless anyway. Good day.
Oh putra don't stop, you're such an awesome writer, bla bla bla..
I said Good Day!
I've written a lot of essays, reports and technical manual (yes, a technical manual for operating a software that was particularly bad so they told us to write a damn manual for it) in my 4+ years of uni, and I've had my share of incredibly bad reports. I did this report back in my first year of uni where I practically bitched about how hot it was on the field that day: "It was a very hot day and a result we only took measurements where there were shades". The marker's response to that passage was: "Nobody cares"
Sure, suppose that if I add the fact that I spent most of my time in the field looking at girls on the running track, I'd probably get a harsher response, and it would be funnier too. But nevertheless, I tuned my report writing skills. Instead of bitching about how hot it was, I learned to be more subtle: "It was a very hot day and the instrument couldn't cope with the heat so we had to stop taking measurements halfway through the control points".
In fact, in my later years of uni, I learned to insert my own personal stories into my report, such as: "It was a very hot day and I had to sit in the sun to mope about how she wouldn't talk to me ever again because I accidentally called her a byatch or some shit".
Where was I? Ah, I can't remember. This entry was rather pointless anyway. Good day.
Oh putra don't stop, you're such an awesome writer, bla bla bla..
I said Good Day!
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