It's Research Paper Season

Yesterday and today brought in 75 research papers that took students weeks to write and which I will now read for the next several weeks.  I actually enjoy reading most research papers, especially when it's a topic I don't know very much about.  When I used to grade 9th grade research papers, there were always entertaining bloopers, like one student who was writing about breast cancer and advised that women should give themselves monthly pap smears in the shower.  Ah, young and innocent.  Another student waxed poetic in her paper when she wrote about, "soft, genital breezes".  That was in the early days of advanced word processing, when you could go oh-so-wrong by just blindly clicking your way through spell check.  The up side of my current paper avalanche is that when I am done with these, I'm really done with all major writing assignments for the year and I know that summer is just around the corner.