Yeah, not that I condone this, but last year I found out I had 2 months to do a 20 page paper to graduate with the Honors program I was in, and since I knew I wouldn't have too much time to get it done right, I basically got some books and highlighted all of the key parts that I needed, and I just spent my time re-reading and re-writing all of that stuff. I got it done just in time for the deadline and I actually learned a lot, and understood some of the stuff that my professor/mentor had tried to talk to me about years before when I had class with him.