I've never heard of a "surprise" end of semester paper, but I have heard of spam bots and procrastinators.
I am willing to admit I'm not the only person on GC who has put off a paper of substantial size (ten pages and over without figures, charts, references, etc.) until the night before and pulled it off. You go to the library, you find journal articles, you throw it together and if one has the capability to write and cite correctly, it really isn't that hard. It isn't ideal but it is cheaper than plagiarism and though lazy, much more honest.
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