"I don't have a topic yet ma'am"

I don’t have a topic for my term paper yet and I don’t know why it’s hard for me finding one. We also have this in our high school but it’s not the same as what our situation now. Really I find this job hard much more now that is has a lot of process to be done with the references and contents that made it more difficult for me. Citing for references too becomes a little complicated. What we always did in high school is that we just keep on copying articles in the net then we make our own references and that’s it! You’re done. My teacher knows all these stuffs in researching still she accepts all our works and I know that she knew some of our plagiarized works but then she just tolerate it. Maybe she noticed that some of us find researching a bit harder too so just accept our works for no clear purpose.

As a result we find this thing now hard that’s supposed to be mastered in high school. But we don’t have this thesis statement in high school so I was really confused when I faced it in college. I didn’t mind it at first but now it becomes an everyday discussion for some of us find it hard to understand too. And just this Friday, ma’am Lynnie asked each of our topics with the thesis statement. Some haven’t defended their chosen topic with its corresponding thesis statement very well while others just did it better. I have no topic so I have nothing to defend only but myself giving false alibi to our teacher.

We will be busy doing term paper this whole month of February and by the beginning of March, we will then begin defending on what we have research or what ma’am call the oral defense. As what I expect, this surely is a tough semester for all of us.