Finish the paper, or don't, the outcome is the same. You don't have to worry about the paper anymore. Which is what really matters here.
The second way is easier.
It was unfortunate to learn that work did not have the concept of semesters and you couldn't just write off an assignment from your boss as 'well I'll get a zero from that one, but there's always next semester'. They just keep bugging you about it over and over even though clearly I've moved on already.
Semesters were a much easier 'reset' than getting fired was.
Say it with me: "hitting 120 WPM on Monkeytype won't make me more productive"
Blasphemy.
No joke, before (can also say instead of) submitting my thesis, I literally learnt touch typing
The formatting on my PhD dissertation was flawless. Fonts, colors, layout, immaculate.
Sure, I never finished it, but the 3 months I spent dialing in every setting in every buried menu of MS Word was time well spent.
The number of people in college that didn't know Office has built-in citation management boggled me. Or how tab stops work. Or how to use fricking styles and page templates instead of setting everything manually (that one goes for PowerPoint as well).
...then again, most of them used Google Docs. sigh
Source: The Jenkins Comic
