[HamletDRC]

No matter how many different classes require a paper to be written, always write one paper and reuse it for all classes. US Profs love creativity and when you come to them and ask if you can write about the "History of Religion" for your history paper they will always say yes. Then go to your religion professor and pitch the same paper. Et viola. Two classes with one paper. And since you'll have a little more time to write the one paper it will usually be better.

Also, always do the readings _before_ the class, not after. By offsetting your reading one week sooner then everyone else you'll have an advantage.

[Jtsummers]

The same can be done with a project but writing two papers. I was taking courses in graphics and parallel programming at the same time. I took my graphics project and modified portions of it to run in parallel. Then I submitted one paper on the graphics and another paper on the transformation of serial->parallel and the performance gains.

But always get permission first. If professors find out that you're reducing your workload like this they aren't always pleased. However, if you're talk to them (and they're reasonable) then they'll almost certainly accept it.

[esteth]

> write one paper and reuse it for all classes.

Careful with this. My school, at least, treats this as academic fraud unless you have agreed in advance with each professor that you will be multiple-submitting that piece of work.

[trouble]

This depends on the school's plagiarism policy - at my university, you're not allowed to reuse your own work. Auto-plagiarism. It's acceptable to cite previous work if relevant, but not to submit the same paper twice.