I started doing the same thing in the past year. Much easier than calculating a date that would have been acceptable to start on the paper...
Thought that was what you're supposed to do , I've never have a professor say anything to me about it. Apparently they don't care when you started.
You'll probably get accused of plagiarism or academic dishonesty (at least reusing papers from previous classes here is grounds for academic dishonesty).
Veteran Grandpa is awesome! It must have opened a while back because this was posted in like the first 20 pages.
Apparently you don't get it... Why would you date a 20 page paper a day before it's due? You gotta scheme a date that makes it seem like you put a lot of work into it. This is elementary stuff my dear uscwatson
On a similar note, it's always funny when someone asks you to come over and "setup" something electronic. Get over there and it involves plugging in 3 cords.
I picked up a girl my freshman year by fixing her computer during the first day of move-ins. By fixing her computer I mean explaining to her the difference between a telephone cable and an ethernet cable. This sounds funny now but in fairness, my freshman year was in 2001 and that was about a year or two before cable internet became the standard so a college's T3 was in most cases a person's introduction to something other than the world of 56k.