所以理智的做法是在期末的时候交三篇论文；这样就可以提早把论文写完也没有因推迟而扣分的危险。

So the rational thing to do was to hand in all the papers at the end of the semester; that way you'd be free to write the papers sooner but not at risk of a penalty if you didn't get around to it.

youdao

虽然这些借口似乎可以接受的，但它有致命的缺陷。因为这些事做完后，你还是没有写完文章，没有开始做实验，也没在写你的论文。

Although these activities or excuses seem acceptable, their fatal flaw is that once they're over, you still haven't finished that article, started that experiment or written your dissertation.

youdao