Welcome to the world of professional paper-writing, the dirty secret of the tutoring business. It’s facilitated by avaricious agencies, perpetuated by accountability-free parents and made possible by self-loathing nerds like me. For three-hour workdays, the ability to sleep in and the opportunity to get paid to learn, I tackled subjects like Dostoevsky while spoiled jerks smoked pot, took naps, surfed the Internet and had sex. Though some offered me chateaubriand and the occasional illicit drug, most treated me like the help. I put up with it because I feared working in an office for $12 an hour again. —Nicole Kristal —‘Tutoring’ Rich Kids Cost Me My Dreams (MSNBC/Newsweek)
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Wow, I'll take this as a lesson I don't have to learn. I've never written a paper for someone else in its entirety (because I feel it's wrong and a waste of my energy), but I've felt like I've written papers for people in just trying to "help" them... I try not to let people milk my brain like that anymore :-) So far so good--I learned a lot in high school.