Essay time again.....[BAD LANGUAGE]!!!

It's essay time again. I picked a prompt already, but I'm nowhere near formulating a thesis. And I feel trapped, unable to start.

And like all essay seasons, I feel compelled to complain rather than do anything about it. I feel rather lucky that I got an A (no - !) for the essay I wrote on Candide. Apparently, I was the only student of that TA to get an A. The pressure is horrifying, I feel. That I would write so well in the estimation of this TA (and of Caldwell) means that I am compelled to repeat the same act. Unfortunately, all three prompts revolve around good ol' Manny Kant. The prompt I picked asks "to what extent is the colonists' desire for independence compatible with the categorical imperative?"

As I said earlier, I'm having trouble formulating a thesis. Throughought the eleven essays I have written (yes, I have counted them all--no, this does not include finals) I have somehow managed to evade "to what extent" questions. Yet the only non-"to what extent" question is INMNSHO really prickly. So I am stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Then again, sleep is for the weak. I should learn how my classmates feel who only sleep four hours a day.